Comments on: Responding to RFPs http://elnblog.com/2009/09/responding-to-rfps/ Electronic Lab Notebooks Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:24:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: John H. Jones http://elnblog.com/2009/09/responding-to-rfps/comment-page-1/#comment-1017 John H. Jones Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:16:55 +0000 http://elnblog.com/?p=289#comment-1017 Simon, That is too funny! I love it. Been there, done that. Now on a more serious note... Stop complaining, do something about it. I did. I create a LIMS requirements specification that is made freely available to all competitors and clients alike. In fact I formed a whole non-profit company around the concept and I do truly mean, non-profit. It is the Laboratory Informatics Institute. If you go to my Linkedin group: http://limsdownload.com you can download a copy of the LIMSpec. Take that and create your own specification for an ELN. Trust me, folks need this sort of thing. We have thousands of customers who have downloaded the spec and had used it to create their tenders. We lose as many of those bids as we gain but the benefit is that we and our competitors have already created the answers to the questions so everytime we have to answer one of these rfp's, it gets easier and easier. It really is a cut and paste job with tweaking to fit the customer's changes. I encourage you to do the same for ELN's and send it to me. I will promote it all over the place and then finally, doing an ELN rfp response will not be the stick-in-the-eye that it has always been. Good Luck, John H. Jones President - LabLynx, Inc. & Laboratory Informatics Institute 770-312-9600 Simon,

That is too funny! I love it. Been there, done that. Now on a more serious note… Stop complaining, do something about it. I did. I create a LIMS requirements specification that is made freely available to all competitors and clients alike. In fact I formed a whole non-profit company around the concept and I do truly mean, non-profit. It is the Laboratory Informatics Institute.

If you go to my Linkedin group: http://limsdownload.com you can download a copy of the LIMSpec. Take that and create your own specification for an ELN. Trust me, folks need this sort of thing. We have thousands of customers who have downloaded the spec and had used it to create their tenders. We lose as many of those bids as we gain but the benefit is that we and our competitors have already created the answers to the questions so everytime we have to answer one of these rfp’s, it gets easier and easier. It really is a cut and paste job with tweaking to fit the customer’s changes.

I encourage you to do the same for ELN’s and send it to me. I will promote it all over the place and then finally, doing an ELN rfp response will not be the stick-in-the-eye that it has always been.

Good Luck,

John H. Jones
President – LabLynx, Inc. & Laboratory Informatics Institute
770-312-9600

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