Smart features to enable your RFP system create, deploy, and manage effective RFPs
Feature Rich to Eliminate Your RFP Process Headaches
Creating an
Effective RFP System
- Insufficient resources
- Managing domain experts and departments
- Getting all stakeholders on board
- Dealing with complicated security, compliance, and technical issues
- Missing deadlines
Getting More Vendors to Participate
- More participants = Greater competition
- Vendor fatigue
- Too many places to post your RFP
Evaluating the Responses to the RFP
- Validating vendor selection — how do you know you’ve chosen the right one?
- Not all questions are of equal importance — how do you measure them?
- How do you score long, complicated essay-like answers?
The time involved to create and evaluate RFPs often outweighs any benefits of cost savings gained.
What If You Could Automate the Whole RFP Process?
- View all RFP projects via a web-based, single-pane window
- Leverage legacy RFPs by importing .docx and .csv files
- Clone previous RFPs for fast set-up
- Store questions in a custom library for use across multiple RFPs
- Store vendor information
- Collaborate within the app and track all activity
How DirectRFP® Works
RFP Communication Benefits
- Improved ease of RFP vendor access attracting higher quality bids;
- Departments can work collaboratively for drafting and scoring;
- Compartmentalized access for various departments/stakeholders;
- Retains RFP vendors’ answers to allow bidders to respond faster and more easily
RFP Audit Benefits
- The digital footprint ensures a complete audit trail for compliance and transparency;
- All information and data is held within one system;
- Communication between Buyer and Vendor stays within DirectRFP®
- Analysis/data automatically generated
RFP Review Benefits
- Bidders complete the RFP within the platform for uniform responses and easy comparison;
- DirectRFP® cuts 60% of the time taken to manage your RFP process;
- Teams can manage several RFP’s for different departments;
- Quicker turnaround time to select vendor;
- Store vendor responses
And there’s more…!
Use Your Time Wisely
Selecting from a library of past questions, and cloning or importing past RFPs means that DirectRFP® will automate 90% of your RFP; allowing you to spend more time on the critical information unique to your project.
Give us a call at 916-757-1100 for a personalized demo.