What are RFPs?
An RFP — a request for proposal, also called a tender — is what a large organisation issues when it wants proposals from several vendors for the same piece of work. Vendors respond, and the buyer compares the responses.
RFPs usually arrive as a set of questions to answer, and unlike a security questionnaire they are rarely confined to security. A single RFP typically mixes:
- Commercial questions — pricing, terms, references, company background
- Technical questions — what the product does and how it is built
- Security questions — much the same ground a security questionnaire covers
How ResponseHub handles RFPs
Section titled “How ResponseHub handles RFPs”ResponseHub handles RFPs natively rather than treating them as questionnaires by another name. They are a separate section of the app, with their own list, their own items, and their own answering.
The answering engine is tuned for RFPs specifically: it answers across product, service, security, privacy, and contractual ground in a professional RFP tone, rather than the security-focused framing used for questionnaires. Answers are drawn from your knowledge base and your sources, the same material behind every other answer.
Working with an RFP
Section titled “Working with an RFP”Beyond starting one, RFPs work in very much the same way as security questionnaires. Rather than repeat it here, these pages are the maintained explanations for both:
- Questionnaire items — reviewing, editing, approving, and regenerating an individual item
- Completing a questionnaire — exporting your answers
- Updating the knowledge base after a questionnaire — feeding approved answers back into your knowledge base