We wean that down to approximately 75 that we invite to do a second-round RFP.
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The RFP included constructing some 255 towers and digging up sidewalks to string fiber-optic cable.
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But increasingly, says Jenny Sutton of the Hong Kong-based RFP Company, clients are refusing to pay for junior staff's on-the-job training.
RFP-EZ, a campaign to streamline the contracting process for tech start-ups so that they can more easily sell to the government.
They are expected to be mostly internal coordinators of resources and end up, for the most part, just managing the RFP process.
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In May, UC Merced released an RFP for a 1.6-MW wind turbine.
Traditional federal system integrators are clearly on notice that pre-competed BPAs will soon displace the traditional RFP as the federal agency contracting vehicle of choice.
If not, which managers were hired without an RFP being issued?
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Corporate buyers, usually led by finance chiefs, viewed the products as a way to improve cost and operational efficiency so paid special attention to the RFP process.
As RFP-EZ is tested and scaled, a new effort will be launched to improve Federal procurement by building a portal of prices paid by agencies under their contracts.
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In Round 1 of the PIF program, the RFP-EZ team opened the door to small businesses by building a platform for small, creative businesses to more effectively sell to the Federal Government.
Instead, the air force issued a new draft Request for Proposals (RFP) last September that in effect nullified the KC-45's advantages that it can deliver more fuel to front-line aircraft and evacuate more troops.
RFP-EZ improves the operations of government by making it easier for small businesses to sell their services to government buyers, and by making it easier for contracting officers within government to navigate the process of purchasing.
My clients often provide me with supplemental materials (pricing information, RFP responses, similar contracts from the past, templates, meeting notes, etc.) I read all of that stuff just as carefully as the rest of it.
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You can learn more about the accomplishments to date of the MyUSA (formerly known as MyGov), RFP-EZ, Blue Button, Better Than Cash, and Open Data Initiatives Fellows through the blog posts of each team.
RFP-EZ aims to develop an online marketplace that will make it easier for the government to do business with small high-growth tech companies, and enabling the government to buy better, lower-cost tech solutions from the full range of American businesses.
The objective of the RFP-EZ 2.0 team is to improve upon the existing product and scale the tool across additional government agencies so that fewer taxpayer dollars are spent getting the technology that government needs to do its work for the American people.
RFP-EZ has created a new online marketplace and built tools that make it easier for innovative small tech businesses to bid on government contracts, while also making it easier for government contracting officers to identify the bids that offer the best value for taxpayers.
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