RFP Datacenter Hosting

Filled in Case Template for Best Value Procurement (BVP) and spoiling secrets of the trade. The example case shows an anonymized (sometimes blurred) Request For Proposal document for migration of a datacenter and for moving datacenter services to a managed service provider based on a requirements mix for pricing, quality of services and quality of transfer of human resources. The document contains answer templates, not only for pricing, but also to be able to compare quality of multiple vendors in a structured answer template based on fulfilling measurable requirements. Only when measurable requirements are used, you have control over your vendor to make sure they deliver the required quality for known costs. The RFP document contains CIOforum's improvements from lessons learned of more then 10 years of confidential template usage in The Netherlands and Belgium. This book is a unique chance to learn from a real life successful RFP document using the latest innovations of Best Value Procurement. Especially Chapter 3 will help you delivering a requirements section. The requirements will help you to keep the awarded vendor under control and enables delivery of measurable qualified services for a known price. Chapter 3 also delivers an answer structure to facilitate easy and comparable scoring for pricing and quality of each offer. You get insight in the structure of a successful RFP process and you are invited to copy and adapt the content for your own use.