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Proposals that you make to individuals or organizations outside of your own company usually fall into one of two categories. They can have been solicited, and are often a response to a Request for a Proposal (RFP), or they are unsolicited, and usually involve something you are promoting or trying to sell.
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If you are responding to an RFP, the first step is to read previous RFP’s from the same company, and the public responses of other providers, with eye to the fact that what worked before may well work again.
Using a Proposal Template
After the title page, a good proposal will begin with a very concise summary of your plan, and your qualifications to execute it. Next is the Opening Statement, where you restate the problem to be solved, as described by the client but in your own voice. This indicates that you understand their views and philosophies and have taken them to heart.
The Frameworks Section is perhaps the most critical part of the Proposal. Here, you describe, in broad terms, what you plan on doing to solve the issue put forth in the RFP.
In the Solutions Section, you go into more detail about what, specifically, you and your company will do if your Business Proposal is accepted. This should not be confused with a Project Plan or a Gantt Chart, where describe in very great detail exactly what you will do on a week-to-week basis. In fact, one of the points you will offer in the Solutions section will be to produce just such a working guide. However, it is appropriate to include some goals and benchmarks, and by what time you will reach them if your Business Proposal is accepted.
In the Bonafides section, you list the qualification of your company for this project. If you have completed similar projects, here is the place to describe your successful efforts.
In the Costs section, you respond to all the money-based questions that your client asks for in the RFP. You can’t be vague here, you must answer all the clients specific questions.
There are many Business Proposal Templates available online for both spreadsheets and word processors and for all platforms. There are two problems associated with them. The first is that almost all of them require you to register with the consultancies offering them, which means you will be getting endless offers to write to proposal for you, and every other kind of spam.
The second is more serious in that templates, by their nature, are specific. Your guide in writing a business proposal should be the RFP that you are responding to, not a third party Business Proposal Template.
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