Unbelievable. I have been solicited in a disgusting, disturbing manner.\u00a0Read this (my emphasis):<\/p>\n
This request for information (RFI) shall not be construed to be a Request For Proposal (RFP) and no<\/strong> agreement\/contract will be entered into with\/awarded to any vendor based on responses to this RFI, and it shall in no way<\/strong> be considered as authorization by <company> for vendors to undertake any work.<\/p>\n
Nothing<\/strong> in this RFI shall be construed as a commitment to issue a RFP. Response to this RFI will not<\/strong> create any obligation. Neither<\/strong> <company> nor<\/strong> vendors answering this RFI shall be bound by any aspect of their response to this RFI.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
RFI? Yes, I live in a cave and am not familiar with such an acronym. Ok, I am being a bit over-the-top, but honestly think about this approach. Why in the world would any salesperson respond to such a request? You are provided the opportunity to present your solution to their problem without any compensation. As sales managers, I hope you do not allow your salespeople to waste time on these RFI\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Unbelievable. I have been solicited in a disgusting, disturbing manner.\u00a0Read this (my emphasis): This request for information (RFI) shall not be construed to be a Request For Proposal (RFP) and no agreement\/contract will be entered into with\/awarded to any vendor based on responses to this RFI, and it shall in no way be considered as authorization by <company> for vendors to undertake any work. Nothing in this RFI shall be construed as a commitment to issue a RFP. Response to this RFI will not create any obligation. Neither <company> nor vendors answering this RFI shall be bound by any aspect of their response to this RFI. RFI? Yes, I live… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[265,184,1144,1143,1750,208],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5Oho-rfi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}