A System Framework of Automating Request for Proposal

• Main Authors: Kuan-Kai Huang, 黃冠凱
• Other Authors: Hsien-Jung WU
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08793248113984329252

碩士 === 亞洲大學 === 資訊科學與應用學系碩士班 === 94 === Project management is an important function for the enterprise to carry out product development and flow control during the product life cycle. To meet the global competition, a good “project management environment” is required to complete the project under the limitation of resource, time and budget. The issue of project management is particularly received attention for the small and medium enterprise (SME). Through the strategy of outsourcing project to outside providers, SMEs can cooperate with others and obtain benefit of cost saving and better competitiveness. To initiate an outsourcing project, a request for proposal (RFP) is used to publish the project specification by the buyer, and then the potential suppliers submit their offers. Usually, a RFP document has the function of to specify the buyer’s needs, to officially announce the project intention, and to describe specific constraints regarding the contents of the proposal. Therefore, four aspects can be expected in a RFP: legal aspect, collaborative aspect, constraint aspect, and evaluation aspect. This paper addresses the problem of traditional RFP process, and proposes an automatic project management RFP system. A web-based RFP system is developed in this paper. The basic role of this system provides the function of preparing official RFP and managing the exchange of messages. Result shows that the proposed automatic system speed the procedure of RFP process and reach project specification more effectively.