One of the most challenging tasks for any government agency – at any level – is the preparation of Requests for Proposals for products or services. These processes and products are not “normal business” activities and government agencies only engage in them occasionally.

Yet as important as these processes – and their outcomes – are to agencies, often the process is government by stringent rules adjudicated by purchasing officials and agencies. Often these complicated processes are barriers to the development of effective RFPs that ensure the requesting agency actually gets the information they need to make good decisions.

The language and details in the RFP (or RFI) are critical to gaining good information – yet agencies do this infrequently, and all too often, use the last RFP as their guide – even if it was not particularly effective or that it might be significantly out of date with today’s needs.

GPS can help! We have highly experienced executives who have both developed RFPs (and RFIs) and have also evaluated those products once received.  We can help your team develop an effective RFP that ensures your agency gets the information needed to make good decisions.

We can also help evaluate the proposals generated from RFPs based on extensive experience in doing that for government agencies in the past at multiple levels.

Moreover, there are often presentations required in the process. We can help develop the necessary information needs to properly prepare the organization for Proposal Presentations to ensure the necessary information is obtained to make good decisions.

If you think you could use some assistance in RFP/RFI preparation, evaluation or decision making, don’t hesitate to contact GPS to discuss how we can help.