Proposal A document prepared by the customer to solicit proposal s from potential providers. The Request For Proposal consists of a Solicitation Letter, Instruction s to Bidder s, Evaluation Criteria , Statement of Work , and a System Specification . The provider issue s an RFP to potential subcontractor s. A bid document used to solicit proposal s from prospective seller s of product s or services . Commonly used under simplified acquisition procedure s.
Requirements See Needs .
The process of deriving and allocating requirements to all levels of system decomposition . Requirements should be comprehensive and clear, well structure d, traceable and test able. They should give rise to clearly specified project deliverables and should be test ed against the original set of requirements. Any change s to the initial requirements should be traceable i.e. document ed and explainable. A document that maps the parent- child relationship s of requirements .