Chapter 24 - Requests for Proposals and Competitive Negotiations

24.5.2 Preparing and writing RFP requirements

The requirements document is the official statement of what is necessary for the project, solution, system or IT software and/or hardware. It is not a design document. It shall set forth what the project, system, solution, software and/or hardware should do, rather than how it should do it. RFPs shall include both a definition and a specification of requirements as well as functional and technical data relating to those requirements. Refer to Chapter 8 and Chapter 12 of this manual for detailed instruction on developing successful requirements, specifications and statements of work. For the purpose of this chapter, a Requirements Verification Checklist is provided in Appendix E, as a quick reference only.