Organizations developing a Request for Proposal (RFP) often look to existing sources for ideas on how to phrase language for a specific topic-a time-consuming exercise that usually involves searching across multiple publications.
With this report, the Software Engineering Institute has compiled publicly available recommendations for RFP content, and examples of language for federal RFP Sections C, M, and L. The paper, one element of the implementation plan for the Army Strategic Software Improvement Program, defines and communicates software engineering and management events and deliverables necessary to support the successful acquisition of software intensive systems.
This report is related to the following area(s) of work:
Acquisition SupportSpecial Report
CMU/SEI-2009-SR-008
May 2009
SEI:
Gross, Charlene; Incorporating Software Requirements into the System RFP: Survey of RFP Language for Software by Topic, v. 2.0 (CMU/SEI-2009-SR-008). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/09sr008.cfm
IEEE:
C. Gross, "Incorporating Software Requirements into the System RFP: Survey of RFP Language for Software by Topic, v. 2.0," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Special Report CMU/SEI-2009-SR-008, 2009. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/09sr008.cfm
APA:
Gross, C., (2009). Incorporating Software Requirements into the System RFP: Survey of RFP Language for Software by Topic, v. 2.0 (CMU/SEI-2009-SR-008). Retrieved June 19, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/09sr008.cfm
CHI:
Gross, Charlene, Incorporating Software Requirements into the System RFP: Survey of RFP Language for Software by Topic, v. 2.0 (CMU/SEI-2009-SR-008). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/09sr008.cfm
MLA:
Gross, C., 2009. Incorporating Software Requirements into the System RFP: Survey of RFP Language for Software by Topic, v. 2.0 (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2009-SR-008). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/09sr008.cfm
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