<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719148365877825805.post8953486468690831571..comments</id><updated>2011-03-10T16:25:53.981-05:00</updated><category term='business'/><category term='proposals'/><category term='advice'/><category term='procurement'/><category term='press release'/><category term='workshop'/><category term='entrepreneur'/><category term='contracts'/><category term='contract negotiations'/><category term='best practices'/><category term='small business'/><category term='web development'/><category term='western massachusetts'/><category term='b2b'/><category term='blog'/><category term='wordpress'/><category term='local first'/><category term='strategic planning'/><category term='publicity'/><category term='seo'/><category term='gov2.0'/><category term='blogger'/><category term='cms'/><category term='sales'/><category term='request for proposal'/><category term='web design'/><category term='announcements'/><title type='text'>Comments on The Confluent Forms blog: 9 tips for running a more considerate procurement ...</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.confluentforms.com/feeds/8953486468690831571/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/719148365877825805/8953486468690831571/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.confluentforms.com/2010/01/9-tips-for-running-more-considerate.html'/><author><name>David Kutcher</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/106704368739672674589</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/---_QRtFzivo/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/I6JR_9JVmxU/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719148365877825805.post-4237203426313048425</id><published>2011-03-10T16:17:25.915-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-10T16:17:25.915-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Many great points here. Really like your pitch for...</title><content type='html'>Many great points here. Really like your pitch for including a budget. As I point out in my &lt;a href="http://messagecom.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/should-we-shred-the-rfp-process/" rel="nofollow"&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; on the subject, including the budget also allows you to compare what&amp;#39;s being offered by respondents more easily. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another suggestion I&amp;#39;d offer is that before issuing your RFP, have someone outside of your organization read it to see if all of your questions make sense and if any are redundant.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/719148365877825805/8953486468690831571/comments/default/4237203426313048425'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/719148365877825805/8953486468690831571/comments/default/4237203426313048425'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.confluentforms.com/2010/01/9-tips-for-running-more-considerate.html?showComment=1299791845915#c4237203426313048425' title=''/><author><name>messagecom</name><uri>http://messagecom.wordpress.com/</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/openid16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://blog.confluentforms.com/2010/01/9-tips-for-running-more-considerate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719148365877825805.post-8953486468690831571' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/719148365877825805/posts/default/8953486468690831571' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-891198946'/></entry></feed>
