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Term: Response Instructions
The ignore-at-your-own-risk rules about how the proposal is to be submitted:
- The document (content, organization, volume and section numbering, number of copies, binder labelling, page limits, and things that affect page definitions [paper size, font type and pitch, margins, line spacing, character spacing])
- The electronic version (file types, file names, size restrictions, media to be used)
- The packaging instructions (labelling, separation of financial and technical submissions)
- The delivery instructions (date, time, location, recipient)
Term: Instructions to Bidders
The RFP section in which the client tells bidders how to prepare, organize, and submit their proposals (or their submissions in response to any other Request; for example, an RFQ).
See also “response instructions.”
Must be followed.
Or else.
Page Limits: Tip #1 for RFP Issuers
OK, we get why you use page limits. They make life easier for evaluators, and help to separate the sheep from the goats, procurement-wise. After all, those who are best at delivering a service or designing a product or building or software system are also best at explaining themselves succinctly, right? Well, maybe. Maybe not. But if you’re going to use them, here’s the first tip on how to do them better.
When is a page not a page?
When the pieces that comprise it are not defined.
Term: Industrial and Technical Benefits (ITBs)
Revision to the IRB Program as of February 2014; focused on ensuring that defence procurements create jobs and leverage economic growth within Canada.