[Sigia-l] Finding and Choosing a Consultant

[Laura Norvig]

Good point, Skot, as was Ziya's regarding framing the problem. I 
think we have a very good sense of what "the problem" is, but 
articulating it on paper would be an excellent exercise. And as 
Arthur so eloquently pointed out, we may *think* we know what the 
problem is when we don't. We do already have some proposed solutions 
in mind, so it's quit possible that we are limiting our vision 
already.

I'd love to see some sample RFP's for site re-design - I wonder where 
I could get a hold of that.


Laura Norvig, MLIS
"Intelligent Human Agent"
lauran at etr.org






>Jacqui Olkin wrote:
>
>>I agree--an RFP is definitely the best way to be sure to compare 
>>apples to apples, and to get different ideas about how a project of 
>>this type could be approached in terms of methodology and emphasis.
>
>I would amend to this add two very significant words -- a *well 
>written*  RFP is the best way.
>
>I've seen too many RFPs that lacked sufficient detail to ensure 
>consistent responses, or even meaningful responses. In my 
>experience, these cases usually mean there's not open competition.
>
>There's a bit of an art to a well written RFP. Good ones are very 
>effective, bad ones are not.
>--
>Skot Nelson
>skot (at) penguinstorm (dot) com
>
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