Help with Community Platform RFPs -- an RFP Template

Is creating an RFP anyone’s favorite thing to do?

I suppose for some people it could be, but for most of us, putting together these documents are not typically the highpoint of the week. Requests for proposals, of course, do play a crucial role, as they lay the groundwork for a potential business relationship that will ideally result in both parties finding the relationship—and the correlating exchange of goods, services, and/or information—to be a beneficial one. But putting together an RFP can be an involved and thankless task; it’s only one of the many steps toward that eventual business relationship and work done, products acquired, services rendered, and so on.

The RFP process can be a time-consuming one, for both the company requesting the proposal and the vendor/service provider putting it together. Dozens of person-hours can easily be spent creating a single RFP, and vendors can spend as much, if not more, time going over the RFP and developing a proposal according to the specifications within.