Assess recency, relevance, quality, problems, corrective actions, and source reliability. Compare work with similar users, complexity, integrations, data sensitivity, delivery mode…

State the factors and significant subfactors that will affect selection, their relative importance, and what evidence offerors should provide. Connect them to the requirement and a…

How narrowly should RFI questions be written so the agency can still learn about approaches it did not anticipate?

What minimum documentation should be delivered if the buyer has the right to use custom work after exit?

Require a test environment when integrations, upgrades, configurations, or high-risk workflows need repeatable validation before production. It should have representative interface…

Define recovery time, acceptable data loss, systems and data covered, backup frequency, geographic and account separation, encryption, retention, deletion, and restoration responsi…

Require it when the buyer must integrate, migrate, report on, audit, retain, or reuse data outside the application. It should define fields, types, units, code lists, stable identi…

Name an owner for the business outcome, data definition, technical service, security, vendor relationship, and incident response. Require source or configuration access, documentat…

Check who tested, when they tested, which systems and interfaces were in scope, which methods were used, what was excluded, how findings were rated, and whether critical and high f…

How would you compare a user-based offer to a usage-based offer when adoption is still uncertain?