Term: Contract Data Requirements List
A Canadian and American federal government contracting tool to capture all data deliverables (reports, plans, forms) in one place in the RFP (usually a Statement of Work appendix).
Category: Terminology
A glossary of terms used widely in RFPs and in proposal process management, as well as those that apply to procurement overall. Limit search alphabetically by using the tag.
Term: Consortium
A gaggle of companies that have come together to bid on Work too complex or too large (or both) for any one of them to execute at an acceptable level of risk.
Term: Deliverable
Refers primarily to two things: A document or information one proposal party owes to another (for example, written proposal sections, cost information) Something the contractor owes to the client after contract award (for example, reports, plans, forms) Is also used sometimes to refer to outcomes of processes (for example, training …
Term: Contractor
The company or joint venture or partnership under contract to deliver the Work. “Successful contractor” is redundant: “contractors” are, by definition, successful in the sense of having won the Work, having been awarded the contract. By way of contrast, see bidder.
Term: Contracting Officer
The client employee designated in the RFP to manage the procurement. Often the only client employee with whom bidders are authorized to communicate during the RFP process. Failure to abide by this restriction can render a bid non-compliant. Sometimes becomes the Contract Authority after contract award, but the two roles …