Successful RFPs in Construction

Managing the RFP process is a key ingredient for any successful construction project, yet few professionals know how to take full advantage of an RFP’s potential. This step-by-step guide is a roadmap for an efficient RFP process that will result in time- and cost-savings, optimal team collaboration, and the best possible quality in construction. With FREE Downloadable Forms and Templates! STEP BY STEP TO A WIN/WIN NEGOTIATED CONTRACT Construction expert/project manager Rick Fria's Successful RFPs in Construction is the only book that turns the new negotiated contract RFP paradigm inside out to show why negotiated contracts are rapidly replacing competitive bidding. This guide gives you a detailed roadmap to negotiated contract RFPs that lead to happy beginnings, middles, and endings in design/construction, and to savings you would not have believed possible. BENEFITS FOR BOTH SIDES This book teaches everything needed to manage the negotiated contract RFP process, adroitly and with maximum economic benefit. Inside, Rick Fria shows you how negotiated contract RFPs can: Turn construction projects into collaborations, not competitions Improve project coordination and teamwork by bringing the contractor aboard when design work is about 10% complete Streamline and trim project costs with early-on architect/engineer and contractor cooperation and input Virtually eliminate costly and frustrating midproject redesign Get better on-time and on-budget project performance Enhance marketing and project management functions Improve materials selection, quality of construction, and end-result satisfaction Reduce paperwork and upfront costs WALK THROUGH THE PROCESS Open Rick Fria's guide and learn how to: Personalize this resource's free downloadable templates for faster, easier RFPs…