Artifact: Request for Information
This is used for gathering general information about a vendor and a vendor's offerings. This artifact is a brief, expedient document designed to seek information about a vendor and vendor offerings for potential "fit" with the preliminary high-level stakeholder's business requirements and candidate solution(s).
Domains: Requirements
Purpose

The purpose of the Request for Information (RFI) is to seek and gather qualitative and quantitative information to assess a vendor and a vendor's offerings for potential "fit" with the stakeholder's business requirements. It allows the vendor to provide information regarding commodities, business background, delivery capabilities, pricing, quality, etc.

The RFI artifact offers an informal means of gathering information on vendor offerings, in order to identify a short list of vendors that will be solicited to detail their offerings in the more formal Contracting Vehicle artifact the Request for Proposal (RFP).

 

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