Optimizing RFPs: Simple Steps to Better Responses

Is your organization in the process of putting together an RFP? Have the responses to your past RFPs fallen short of expectations? CRO teams respond to hundreds of RFPs each year. It is clear which sponsors have invested time to build internal consensus and to develop a document that clearly articulates their needs and project goals. The result is a guide that assists the CRO in assembling a higher quality response that directly addresses the needs of the sponsor.

This audio conference is the first in a three-part series designed to share best practices for optimal outsourcing.

Optimizing RFPs: Simple Steps to Better Responses was presented by Beth Mandel, Director of Strategic Solutions, with Covance, and is previously recorded. For more details or to download this audio conference, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

Writing and Responding to RFPs & RFQs

Knowing how to properly write and respond to Requests for Proposal (RFP) or Requests for Quotation (RFQ) are essential business skills. This session explores the key elements that should be included in every RFP, and reviews the components of a complete and sensible work plan that should be included in all proposals.

In this audio conference buyers learn how to craft better RFPs to ensure all responding vendors fully understand your project and can provide complete, apples-to-apples responses. Vendors learn how to write a winning RFP response, regardless of the quality of the RFP, including a work plan that will convince the buyer you have the right team for the job – and ensure that you can do it on time and on budget.

Writing and Responding to RFPs & RFQs is being presented by Chris Willis, CEO, of Media 1 and airs on Thursday, August 13, 2009. For more details or to register for this audio conference, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com