Successful Rfps In Construction Managing The Request For Proposal Process

With FREE Downloadable Forms and Templates! STEP BY STEP TO A WIN/WIN NEGOTIATED CONTRACT Construction expert/project manager Rick Fria's Successful RFPs in Construction is the only book that turns the new negotiated contract RFP paradigm inside out to show why negotiated contracts are rapidly replacing competitive bidding. This guide gives you a detailed roadmap to negotiated contract RFPs that lead to happy beginnings, middles, and endings in design/construction, and to savings you would not have believed possible. BENEFITS FOR BOTH SIDES This book teaches everything needed to manage the negotiated contract RFP process, adroitly and with maximum economic benefit. Inside, Rick Fria shows you how negotiated contract RFPs can: bull; bull;Turn construction projects into collaborations, not competitions bull;Improve project coordination and teamwork by bringing the contractor aboard when design work is about 10% complete bull;Streamline and trim project costs with early-on architect/engineer and contractor cooperation and input bull;Virtually eliminate costly and frustrating midproject redesign bull;Get better on-time and on-budget project performance bull;Enhance marketing and project management functions bull;Improve materials selection, quality of construction, and end-result satisfaction bull;Reduce paperwork and upfront costs WALK THROUGH THE PROCESS Open Rick Fria's guide and learn how to: bull; bull;Personalize this resource's free downloadable templates for faster, easier RFPs bull;Get critical, project-specific information from local databases bull;Prepare expert RFPs with specificity, clarity, and completeness bull;Target and qualify contractor candidates bull;Quantitatively analyze responses and interview effectively bull;Negotiate the final deal THE ONLY GUIDE YOU NEED TO NEGOTIATED RFPsFria, Richard is the author of 'Successful Rfps In Construction Managing The Request For Proposal Process', published 2005 under ISBN 9780071449090 and ISBN 0071449094.