Reduce development costs
Developing a comprehensive RFP takes time and money away from other essential activities. RFP Manager helps reduce the time required with standardized templates, collaborative development and by removing technical hurdles. This comprehensive on-line tool helps you manage the entire life cycle of the request. RFP Manager's growing library of industry templates saves you time by providing the framework for your requirements. You can customize the existing templates or develop new templates that are specific to your organization.

Collaborate across departments and remote locations
The quality of responses to your RFP often hinges on input from individuals with expertise in various areas of your organization. RFP Manager's collaborative development capabilities allow you to assign security levels, due dates and other status settings to appropriate persons for each RFP section.

Easily distribute the completed RFP
RFP Manager makes it easy to post the RFP to your organization's website or to easily distribute it via e-mail. Vendors can access the information electronically, which eliminates costly duplication and distribution fees. Vendors can immediately see any revisions through the secure vendor utility.

Making the right decision...
Selecting the wrong vendor could cost you money, time, opportunity or even worse, your job. RFP Manager gives you the tools you need to easily evaluate proposals on your own or using a diverse team of evaluators. RFP Manager gives you the documentation you need to back up your decision if questions ever do arise. Make an informed decision using RFP Manager.

Simplify evaluation with RFP Manager's autoscore
Individuals or groups can efficiently evaluate and score vendor responses. The autoscore tool reduces the time required to evaluate pre-defined responses to basic questions. Limit vendor responses to predefined answers or to custom responses for more complex questions including document attachments.

Reduce the Selection Period with RFP Manager's scorecards and reports
RFP Manager provides detailed scorecards and additional reports that make vendor comparisons easy. Set up Individual RFP sections with minimum point requirements to quickly eliminate vendors that do not meet required criteria. Vendor scorecards provide a clear view of a vendor's strengths and weaknesses. Use RFP Manager to quickly create your short-list of qualified vendors.

Reduce paperwork with the optional vendor response utility
Encouraging vendors to respond on-line using the vendor response utility will help reduce the piles of paperwork often received from your vendors. Minimize marketing literature and get the answers you need to make an educated decision.

Minimize Disputes and Problems with RFP Manager
Creating a framework that helps ensure all vendors are treated equally helps to eliminate costly vendor disputes. Create the documentation you need to enforce your decisions. Responding vendors are given the capability to ask questions and have their answers shared in RFP Manager's question & answer forum, which minimizes confusion.

RFP Manager is designed to simplify what is typically a costly, complicated and paper driven process that often does not provide the information you need in a timely manner.