RE: Help! Suddenly I'm a new RPF/proposal writer

[Ellen Siever <esiever -at- world -dot- std -dot- com>]

Hi, I just wanted to add a note that while keeping a database of responses
can be enormously helpful, you have to be careful when you reuse those
responses.  Be sure to tailor them to the question being asked in the RFP
you are responding to.  It's all too easy to get careless when you're
under pressure to get the proposal out and to forget to check that the
answer really fits the question.

--Ellen


On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Dick Margulis  wrote:

> Finally, one unrelated point. I recently bought and installed a
> product called The RFP Machine, which is supposed to make responding
> to RFPs easier. It has a database where it stores binary chunks of
> Word documents. In theory you do a category and keyword search to find
> already-written answers that you can reuse. The jury is still out, but
> I find it clunky and cumbersome to use. I think folks should be aware
> that it exists and might be useful in some organizations, but it's
> definitely a YMMV thing.





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