Orange & Bronze is planning to provide ‘’Request for Proposal Study (RFP)'’ services for its clients by next year. According to Martin Mamonluk, Business Analyst and Project Manager of O&B, the plan will push through “if the project goes well with our first client. Then we [O&B] can start offering the RFP study as part of our services to our clients and for companies looking for external parties to do the study for them.”

RFP is a document that contains a company’s expectations and needs for a proposed system, including the company policies and project requirements, for its consultant or contractor. It then serves as an invitation for prospective consultants or constructors to evaluate and submit a project proposal for a specific service asked by the client. The latter will then decide through a bidding process which among the submitted proposals clearly meet their requirements. The project is then awarded to the project proposal that accurately captures the requirements of the proposed system. An RFP’s importance lies on its ability to introduce the project to possible consultants or contractors, and identify its requirements.

Asked for the benefits of providing RFP services to companies, Mamonluk said, “Getting an external party to do the the RFP study benefits the company issuing it since it removes all biases from the company stakeholders and allows external parties to analyze, evaluate and even give recommendations on the proposed system.”