While the RFP is an essential element of the purchasing cycle, end-users frequently don't have sufficient knowledge of a new technology under consideration to be able to build a viable RFP.
As this RFP will be used both to select the "Short List" candidate products as well as serve as the basis for compliance, a poorly-written end-user RFP can have a significant negative impact on this situation.
Unfortunately, even though vendor experts are available to guide the end-users -- and perhaps even provide an RFP - end-users will often not accept such guidance from a vendor as they perceive it as inherently biased.
To help you respond to these challenges, there is the Tolly Common RFP™ Series of "Best Practices" Guides.
With Tolly Common RFP documents to guide you, you can:
- Dramatically reduce the time it takes to build RFP documents
- Dramatically reduce or eliminate time you spend developing RFP evaluation test plans
- Dramatically reduce or eliminate the time you spend educating your team about product technology features
- Dramatically shorten the time and resource needed for the product evaluation cycle
- Leverage the knowledge and experience of a leading IT testing company to make your evaluations quicker and more comprehensive
Common RFPs on Application Switching and LAN Switch Power Consumption are currently available with anti-spam and virtual server performance in development. See entries on the left for more information on each of these.
To learn how The Tolly Common RFP program can help your organization streamline your product acquisition process, contact David de la Puerta at David.delaPuerta at tolly.com or via phone at (561) 391-5610 x127.
If you are an IT consulting company, contact us to find out about our partner program.
The Tolly Common RFP™ program is an offering of Tolly Common RFP, LLC, a Tolly Group company.
