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September 28, 2004
Everyone's Behind
My clients are behind; I'm behind. Such is the life when you're dealing with proposals (and sometimes other documents).
My new client, who I'm assisting with a DOD Financial Services proposal, was originally supposed to send me stuff over the weekend. Nothing arrived. I spoke with them yesterday, and they were still working on it. This afternoon I received their second draft. They took out everything that I had done (why did they hire me?) and now their technical section does not comply with the RFP requirements. I'm not really sure what more I can do -- I sent them back an e-mail citing word-for-word the relevant sections of the RFP that they did not address (and for which I had written stuff), but have not heard back from them yet.
I'm not upset that they didn't use my material -- that is their right. But if they don't want to comply with the RFP instructions, there's really nothing I can do. I am thinking that this is another case of people who just don't read. I had prepared an outline for them that incorporated all of the RFP requirements, we had reviewed and discussed the outline, and now many of the outline sections are gone. Ummm...what can I say?
I'm also behind on the report I'm doing for another client because they have not sent me everything I need. Things were supposed to come yesterday, but they didn't. So I'll just wait -- they will eventually arrive.
Posted by Deborah at September 28, 2004 03:43 PM
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