Now in its tenth year, Issue #45 of The RFP Report is available free from http://www.rfpmentor.com/rfp-report.html.
This Issue describes 6 documents, generated by procurement people during the RFP process, which discourage disgruntled vendors from calling their lawyers and discourage lawyers from attacking your process as biased, unfair, or illegal. These documents represent "best RFP practices" based on an examination of hundreds of jurisdictions. A trail of great documents intimidates their lawyers!!! (References 10 web sites) Document #1: Follow an RFP road-map A discussion of the 22-step RFP process followed in Montana Document #2: Specify the activities of the Evaluation Committee Some best practices including those of Arizona and Alaska Document #3: Develop a fairness plan A discussion of the best practices of Victoria State in Australia Document #4: Publish an Evaluation Guide A review of a great guide from the Atlantic Lottery Corp. Document #5: Publicize an effective debriefing procedure A discussion of best practices with 3 examples. Document #6: Document the protest procedure A discussion of best practices. For your free copy: go to http://www.rfpmentor.com/rfp-report.html While you are there, review one of our most popular issues. It deals with great RFP manuals, the recent NASCIO report, greeen procurement and IT Outsourcing. Issue #49 of The RFP Report is available free from http://www.rfpmentor.com/rfp-report.html. This issue deals with four important topics: * Two great RFP Manuals. In Issue 48, we identified the five best RFP manuals that we've seen. In this issue, we complete the list with entries from Massachusetts and Montana. * Getting What You Need on the Way to the Win-Win! Leveraging the RFP in State Technology Procurements. Earlier this month, NASCIO/NASPO released this important report. It's only 18 pages but it goes a long way to promote best practices by dealing with several key issues - critical success factors. * Green Procurement. Much work has been done in establishing green procurement. This article identifies some important sources of information about Green RFPs. * Information Technology Outsourcing. Preparing a Request for Proposals (RFPs) for any large and/or complex project can be challenging. But it can often be even more challenging where the RFP concerns an IT outsourcing project. Issue #41 - Improve Every RFP: Demand Risk Management Information To obtain either of these issues of The RFP Report, simply go to http://www.rfpmentor.com and click on RFP Report. While you are there, you can subscribe to this valuable free publication by entering your email address. Best regards Michael Asner Michael Asner Consulting http://www.rfpmentor.com. ============================================================================ To unsubscribe from our mailing list please click on link below: http://www.rfpmentor.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&record_num=3571 ============================================================================ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
