Artifact: Request for Proposal
This is a formal Contracting Vehicle that solicits responses from vendors to detail their offerings. It presents a clear and concise description of the acquiring organization's business goals and objectives, functional and nonfunctional requirements and often includes legal terms and conditions the vendors must accept before they go forward in the selection process.
Domains: Requirements
Purpose

The purpose of the Request for Proposal (RFP) is to gather detailed information about a vendor and a vendor's offerings.

The RFP includes very specific business goals and objectives, detailed functional and nonfunctional requirements and often includes legal terms and conditions the vendors must accept before they go forward in the selection process.

The RFP will be used to assist the acquiring organization in the comparison of vendors and vendor offerings in order to evaluate each offering's functional "fit" to the acquiring organization's business needs and candidate solution(s).

Relationships