Comments on: RFP Response Templates

By: admin

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:08:51 +0000

Donna, the “set-up” of response templates takes two forms within VendorSelect. One, if a vendor receives the same RFP or RFQ from a buyer with some frequency (quarterly or annually), with a single click the vendor can “import” its answers from a previous buyer document into the vendor’s current repsonse. The vendor can then adjust any answers (e.g., changed pricing) and submit its response. The answer import can be conducted at an individual answer level as well.

The other form of set-up involves a vendor’s building out its library of standard responses. The library can also include attachments (spreadsheets, etc.). Then it’s a simple matter of calling up and library item and improrting it into the vendor’s current response document.

Make sense?

By: Donna

Donna — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:25:49 +0000

As suggested by Justin above you might want to consider a specific post on how one would set up VendorSelect to create a response library on the vendor/supplier side.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:44:37 +0000

Justin, thanks for the favorable comments. Actually, there isn’t much to setting up VendorSelect for use as described above. The options are limitless. The important thing to note is the persistence feature. Not sure if this is clear, but you may add whatever you want to your “account”: templates and content of all sorts. The templates and content become part of your account-specific “inventory”, which is static (i.e., not project dependent). Then you can access all of your inventory items for a specific project. The typical limitation within other RFX CMS tools is the LACK of such a persistence feature. Everything is project specific.

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:48:20 +0000

Excellent post! I can’t tell you how much time I wasted searching for an RFP response template. There’s a ton of stuff you can purchase online, but every template I investigated was just as you describe. Just a shell that I could easily cook up on my own. And besides, a shell–whether you buy it or create it yourself–doesn’t really help much.

The CMS notion is more like what I have been looking for. Consider a specific post on how one would set up VendorSelect to create a CMS response library on the vendor/supplier side.

Thanks for your valuable insights.