Comments on: Is a Web Presence Required in the Supplier RFQ process? http://www.einnoventions.com/blog/web-development/is-a-web-presence-required-in-the-supplier-rfq-process/ Educated Employees Make Excellent Employees! Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:56:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joseph A. di Paolantonio http://www.einnoventions.com/blog/web-development/is-a-web-presence-required-in-the-supplier-rfq-process/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Joseph A. di Paolantonio Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:10:22 +0000 http://blog.einnoventions.com/?p=19#comment-5 Tawny, I'm catching up with your blog since finding you on Twitter. Which statement should likely go towards another of your posts. ;-) We host two geotechnical firms that routinely do business with local, county and state governments in California. They were both strongly encouraged to have an Internet presence by their customers for two reasons: (1) information during the RFP process and during the project would be exchanged primarily through email; email addresses that were generic and did not reflect the firm's brand were considered unprofessional and cast doubt on the firm with purchasing agents (2) increasingly, checking a proposer's website was part of the background/qualification process So, while not having an Internet presence with one's own domain reflected both in email and the web would not disqualify a firm, i.e. not a "REQUIREMENT", one could be scored lower. Tawny,

I’m catching up with your blog since finding you on Twitter. Which statement should likely go towards another of your posts. ;-)

We host two geotechnical firms that routinely do business with local, county and state governments in California. They were both strongly encouraged to have an Internet presence by their customers for two reasons:

(1) information during the RFP process and during the project would be exchanged primarily through email; email addresses that were generic and did not reflect the firm’s brand were considered unprofessional and cast doubt on the firm with purchasing agents

(2) increasingly, checking a proposer’s website was part of the background/qualification process

So, while not having an Internet presence with one’s own domain reflected both in email and the web would not disqualify a firm, i.e. not a “REQUIREMENT”, one could be scored lower.

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