How to Build A Quality RFP

While your evaluation criteria should be established as part of the RFP, now is the time to organize them for deployment on incoming proposals. Create a spreadsheet listing criteria to be used as the project team reads and rates the responses. Each criterion should be weighted, with the "must haves" weighted the highest. Break the criteria into the same sections as the RFP, to make it easier to rate for the reviewer. Set a schedule of meeting times with the project team to review each response a first time.