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August 19, 2022 | Bonfire Interactive
One of the most challenging parts of putting together an RFP is getting stakeholders involved in the build process without creating chaos. If you’ve ever had different document versions from multiple editors get stored in different locations, or you’ve experienced painful approval processes that take place through endless email chains, you know how frustrating and time-consuming that chaos can be.
Eliminating that chaos reduces aggravation and waste, but also leads to happier stakeholders, more engaged vendors, and better solicitations that lead to better outcomes. With demands on public sector procurement teams increasing all the time, the need for effective RFP collaboration will continue to increase, too.
In this blog post, we’ll take a look at why RFP collaborations tends to be so chaotic, and how Bonfire helps transform the chaos into productive teamwork.
The process of creating and posting solicitations is intrinsically cooperative; requesters, procurement professionals, evaluators, and approvers each have their own concerns, tools, and processes. Shoving them all together creates challenges that you may be all-too-familiar with, including:
These are the collaboration headaches we hear about most often from the public sector organizations we talk to. As part of our commitment to make public procurement teams as effective as possible, we decided to develop a solution.
In looking for a solution, we quickly found our way to a list of capabilities we knew procurement professionals needed – capabilities that, together, would make RFP collaboration easy by helping procurement professionals to:
The need for collaborative tools in procurement isn’t going away, which is why we’re not stopping at these capabilities. Streamlining collaboration is one of the biggest opportunities for improvement that exists in the solicitation building process, and Bonfire is committed to leading the way, so stay tuned as we continue to develop and announce new Bonfire Solicitation Builder features and other collaborative tools in the future.
We couldn’t be more excited about Bonfire Solicitation Builder, and we can’t wait to hear what you think! Learn more by visiting the Bonfire Solicitation Builder web page or get in touch with us now to book a demo!
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Take the chaos out of your RFP collaboration with Bonfire’s Solicitation Builder.