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- duckofrubber0
Yikes!
- dMullins0
Every RFP I've ever worked on has involved spec work. I'm surprised to hear that there are RFP's floating around out there that do not have this as part of the requirements.
Then again, a lot of the RFP's we respond to are for governmental/economic development work, so I'm not surprised that they'd want to scrape out anything for free that they could.
- gramme0
My concern is the potential hazards in working with someone who (a) thinks asking for spec in a website proposal is unethical, yet (b) sees no problems in crowdsourcing a logo. There's a massive disconnect implied here.
- yeah. I think you found your answer. lolbaseline_shift
- Then again, they may not really be fully educated on the topic, and are following a fad they read about somewhere...duckofrubber
- But I'd still run far, far away.duckofrubber
- then you have time to make your &jimbojones
- haha @ jimbo... I can't hide from you can I ;)gramme
- dMullins0
Most people don't see Crowdsourcing as evil/unethical because there is ultimately pay involved. Your best bet is likely to either deal with that issue the best you can, or attempt to educate the client during your relationship with them. Either way, I doubt there's much you can do about right now, other than simply not pursue the RFP.
- prajna0
The trouble with RFPs (great article): http://www.andyrutledge.com/rfp-…
I've responded to quite a few RFPs in the past and there are always vague areas. I usually include a lot of assumptions about what I'm promising to deliver.
- bklyndroobeki0
Thought this article was interesting:
http://www.ssireview.org/blog/en…
- formed0
You should write the boss and tell them that he spent more money on having an "rfp" put together via whoever is working for him that, most likely, is trying to be an over achiever than it cost for the actual logo.
I've seen that more than a few times - boss tells assistant to get proposal, assistant goes overboard and then some on putting together these rfp's, then over analyzes everything and sells whatever she/he likes w/o any real knowledge, all for something that is bottom feeding budget.
I guess they feel important for controlling the situation.If you want the job, befriend the assistant. Just be prepared for bottom feeding pricing (if they are crowdsourcing, they don't value any interaction and my guess is that 99% of the rfp is bs copy/pasted from something he/she found online).
- cannonball19780
Respond with a helpful, education response asking questions.
- Hayoth0
I have done rfp's like this. I would show them examples or reference samples of well designed UI's and attractive websites in their industry.
Doesn't sound like spec work to me, sound like an RFP.