RFP – Hosting a dinner for 20 people Guidelines: Following are some guidelines for drafting a formal request for proposal to external contractors: The RFP must state the project objective or purpose, including any rational or background information that may help contractors so that they can prepare thorough and responsive proposals. An RFP must provide a statement of work (SOW). An SOW deals with the project’s scope, outlining the tasks or work items the customer wants the contractor or project team to perform. The RFP must include customer requirements, which define specifications and attributes. Requirements cover size, quantity, color, weight, speed, performance, and other physical or operational parameters the contractor’s proposed solution must satisfy.

The customer may also use these requirements as acceptance criteria. The RFP should state what deliverables, or tangible items, the customer expects the contractor to provide. They can include periodic progress reports or a final report as well as a final product. The RFP should state the acceptance criteria the customer will use to determine whether the project deliverables have been completed according to the customer’s requirements.

The RFP should list any customer-supplied items. The RFP might state the approvals required by the customer. Some RFPs mention the type of contract the customer intends to use. It could be a fixed price, in which case the customer will pay the contractor a fixed amount regardless of how much the work costs the contractor. (The contractor accepts the risk of taking a loss.) Or the contract might be for time and materials. In this case, the customer will pay the contractor whatever the actual costs are. An RFP might state the payment terms the customer intends to use.

The customer may specify progress payments or pay when the entire project is finished. The RFP should state the required schedule for the completion of the project and critical milestones. It might merely state a required completion date, or it might give a more detailed schedule. The RFP should provide instructions for the format and content of the contractor proposals. Instructions might state the maximum number of pages, the number of details the customer wants the contractor to show regarding the costs, and other specifications. The RFP should indicate the due date by which the customer expects potential contractors to submit proposals

The purpose of this assignment is for you to analytically consider two project papers on project management (two from one of the four project management journals, one from one of the four project management journals, and another from a journal of your discipline). Ideally, this should come from Assessment 1. You will contrast and compare the main themes, arguments, theoretical foundations (if specified), theoretical claims or empirical findings, and conclusions in these papers from a project management fundamentals perspective related to themes in this course. Your paper should, as a minimum, clearly discuss:

• Identify the central problem(s) or issue(s) in the two readings
• Provide a concise discussion of how the authors in the two documents consider the problem(s) or issue(s) in similar or different ways
• Consider if the problem(s) or issue(s) appear to require further research or consideration; if so, in what ways, if not, why not
• Discuss why the similarities or differences are relevant to course themes, perspectives, and/or issues

Please follow APA 7th style conventions for your paper and for your references/citations. Your essay-based paper should be approximately 1500 words in length, excluding references and appendixes. As a guide, you’re expected to reference about 10-20 relevant, primary sources of information including peer-reviewed, to support your arguments; see Understanding what information you need.

When conducting your contrasting and comparing of the papers, you’ll be expected to establish structural alignment, read chapter 11: Analogical Reasoning by Gentner & Maravilla.

read Toulmin’s model of argumentation in the Handbook of Argumentation Theory

Political risk is an important element of international trade. Research an international company that experienced any of the specific political risks noted in this unit. Were they able to manage this risk, and if they did, how did they do so?

In this discussion, you will explore the concept of slope and determine how to teach someone how to find the slope of a line. One of your friends is struggling with the concept of slope. To help your friend with this concept, you decide to ask her to draw several lines with different slopes. So that your friend will not be confused, you will need to give her instructions for drawing each of the examples listed below without using any mathematical terms or equations.

Write out the instructions you would give your friend to complete this task and better understand the slope of a line. Avoid using mathematical terms or equations. In your instructions, ask her to draw the following:

• a line with positive slope
• a line with negative slope
• a line with an undefined slope
• a line with a slope of 0