A Request for Proposal, or RFP is a document created by companies (i.e. your prospective clients) that outlines the requirements for products and services they need (i.e. your services or products).

RFP's shouldn’t be overlooked because they’re synonymous with bigger budgets, faster paying clients and larger, kudos building companies.

Uncover a trove of RFPs

The RFPs we'll be shooting for are publicly posted and, as a result, will be open to anyone interested in bidding for the work.

There are three main approaches to find RFPs in your field; a) Use search queries on Google to scour the internet b) focus in on LinkedIn to unearth requests by corporate and larger firms, and c) search the RFP Database to identify opportunities in your sector.

Google

• Go to Google and create a search operator string that starts with “RFP'' then AND followed by your skill/field of work.
• Be sure to add filetype:PDF at the end because that's the normal medium used to post RFPs.
• To bring back RFP's that should still open for proposal, sort the results to the past month (requests are usually open for at least 30 days).