I have a confession to make. I have never worked in procurement. But I have dealt with requests for proposal (RFPs) all my life. Because I sat in teams in many a bank that needed a thing the bank couldn’t build themselves so we had to go out to market for it and, of course, we did so in a way that took twice as long as learning and then building the thing ourselves would have done and ten times as long as it would take our partners to build the thing. Do you really need answers to 3,800 questions to make a…
Dirty little secrets and RFPs