Talk:Proposal (business)/Archives/2013

Governmental v Commercial Proposals

The primary discussion and assumption here seems to be that these proposals are mostly commercially solicited. There exists a very large difference between solicitations released by the Government under the Federal Acquisition Regulations, and those released by commercial entities, which have no formal rules or regulations to govern them.

In re: the argument for deletion by Jlawniczak, I understand where you're coming from, however, in a Federal or Governmental contracting sense, a proposal is directed only from a seller to a buyer, in response to a solicitation. The Government doesn't issue a proposal to industry, it issues a request for proposal (RFP). A business proposal, in the sense this article speaks to, is purely this. Proposed agreements, such as teaming agreements, subcontracting agreements, requests to team, etc., aren't proposals in the same sense as responses to RFPs are. I believe that this article could be better arranged, Federal v Commercial, and further into solicited and unsolicited proposals.

Also, the proposal roles are incorrect. Standard roles are Proposal Manager, Proposal Specialist/Coordinator, Technical Writer/Editor, and occasionally Desktop Publishing/Production Specialist, if those roles aren't already fulfilled by the Proposal Specialist. Cooperating roles from the program teams include Subject Matter Experts (SME), who serve as content creators. Spskeldon (talk) 19:03, 19 February 2013 (UTC)