Re: Know of courses on writing RFP responses?

[Anthony Davey <ant -at- ant-davey -dot- com>]

Clarence,

Have you ever been a contractor or freelance writer?  If you have you 
should know what you want an RFP response to contain (other than a 
cheque).  The fact that you put this in the category of marketing/sales 
writing suggests that you want to embellish a situation, rather than 
than clarify it.

Are you looking for a template?

Dear Supplier,

Thank you for your letter concerning payment of your invoice, number 
XXXXX.  As you may appreciate the amount you are trying to recover 
represents about 0.01% of what this corporation will make in net profit 
while you read this letter.  In short you don't matter; we don't care. 

We've cut back our staff costs so much recently that our accounts 
depatment has a huge backlog of work, which includes the cutting of 
checks for small suppliers.  We don't keep your letters on file because 
of theadministration costs, but I'd guess you're asking for less than 
$5,000, in which case your invoice is sitting somewhere in the 'really 
low priority' tray.

But don't worry, you'll get paid some day.  Unless we change the admin 
system in the next few months, in which case your invoice will probably 
get lost in the move.

See ya!</g>

If this isn't quite how you want to put it I hope, at least that this 
has sparked some ideas.

Best regards,
Ant

PS.  What does Agresso do?  Something in agriculture, or are the 
directors just naturally vindictive?

Clarence Gray wrote: