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RFP Report
NEW!!! JUST ADDED TO THIS PAGE. Issue 54: 1. Encylopedia of Ethical Failure 2. The Great Cake Procurement Fiasco
Issue 53: Risk Management - Valuable but still neglected by procurement people. This issue highlights five articles about risk management and RFPs: 1. The Contract Manager as Risk Manager 2. Focus on Risk Management 3. Chances are . . . 4. Project Risk Management 5. California Best Practices
Subject Index - Main Topics * Access to Information * Best Value * Checklists * Contracts * Ethics * E-Procurement * The Evaluation Committee * The Evaluation Process * Excellence * Fair and Open Competition * Great Handbooks and Guidelines * Green Procurement * Justice Systems * Management Issues * Negotiated Procurement * Outsourcing Problems and Pitfalls * Procurement Library * Procurement Reform * Public-Private Partnerships * Risk Management * Great RFPs to Learn From * Good Short Examples * Sole Sourcing * Sources of Information * Statement of Work (SOW) * Supplier Complaints and Protests * Training * Unanticipated Tasks * Unsolicited Proposals *
Click here for a speech on Scandals and Procurement Reform
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45-1: Follow an RFP road-map 45-2: Specify the activities of the Evaluation Committee Some best practices including those of Arizona and Alaska 45-3: Develop a fairness plan A discussion of the best practices of Victoria State in Australia 45-4: Publish an Evaluation Guide A review of a great guide from the Atlantic Lottery Corp. 45-5: Publicize an effective debriefing procedure A discussion of best practices with 3 examples. 45-6: Document the protest procedure A discussion of best practices. 45-7: Federal Transit Administration Guide for Procurement System Reviews A summary of the contents and key features of this 100-page guide. Issue 45 discusses the Evaluation Guide produced by Orange County Sanitation District as an example of excellence. Click here to download a Real-Life Actual Evaluation Guide.
Issue 32: Four Critical Elements
32-1: How to come in last: Evaluators’ Advice for Writing Losing Proposals - This article, targeted to vendors who generate woefully inadequate proposals, is a tongue-in-cheek take on how not to succeed.
32-2: Best and Final Offers - A discussion of this valuable technique with examples from 32-3: Revised Model Procurement Code - In 1979, the American Bar Association published the Model Procurement Code which did, in fact, become the model for hundreds of jurisdictions. It has been recently revised and re-issued. An excellent document dealing with all aspects of public policy and procurement. Unfortunately, only available in hard-copy. (References 1 web site.) 32-4: Bullet-Proofing Your RFP Process - This workshop by Michael Asner has been presented all over
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Review the Table of Contents or Subject Index. Identify the specific Issue of The RFP Report that you are most interested in and send me an email (michael@rfpmentor.com). I'll send you that Issue on a pdf file. No charge. You get some valuable 'best practices' and I confirm the interest in the issue.
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A Searchable Library of The Best RFP Practices From More Than Sixty Jurisdictions 