Re: Should I charge to help write a security RFP?

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Of course you should charge! If you do it for free you send the wrong 
signal as if your services are not worth anything. Why don't you make a 
deal that you will charge them but if they indeed give you a job in the 
project you will drop the charges. This way they get your professional work 
and pay for it if you will part later.
Otherwise I have to assume they just are looking for someone stupid enough 
to do their job for free. I once had a VP ask me to write a whole marketing 
plan otherwise he would not even give me an interview. I posted that on a 
job board and it came out that he did this with candidates for  every 
position. The CEO found out and fired him!
Do not support this kind of abuse, I am sure they would not give you 
anything for free if you would ask for 2 days of their services.

At 06:39 PM 3/6/2003 +0000, you wrote:

Hi,

A consulting company I have a light relationship wants me to help them 
work on an RFP.

This will take about 2 days of my time.

They said that they would give me a job on the project if it gets approved.

How do I deal with the fact that they want 2 days of my time � for free.
Should I charge to help write an RFP?
How do I negotiate around this?

Thanks,

Dan





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