101 Guide To Furniture RFP's

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September 9, 2024

Design when the clock is ticking. Real talk, dealing with the dreaded RFP response.

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New RFP template made by designers: Liz Wert, Pearl Lopez and Alma Lopez

A majority of those working in furniture have spent time working on an RFP. The reality of RFP's is no matter how creative and strategic you are, time is against you. You are tasked with choosing the best and most creative solutions that will make you stand out against your competition all while finding and negotiating pricing, creating test fits and pulling together your internal and extended project team.

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The behind the scenes mechanics of an RFP are heavily reliant on relationships, information that is not easily available, and pulling together a presentation. RFP's take up an exorbitant amount of resources between account management, design, sales and furniture partners to put together a strong response. The number one issue is that team collaboration is hard. Everyone is working as fast as they can using a myriad of different tools to find, price and present their work.

'Team collaboration is hard, especically when time is against you. We make it easy.'

Pearl Lopez, Liz Wert and Alma Lopez collectively spent ten years leading creative furniture RFP responses at furniture dealerships in San Francisco (not to mention competed againsteach other for years). Now, all three are at Canoa utilizing the platform to create better solutions addressing tensions in team collaboration. Within their newRFP template, you can learn how to go from inspiration to specification: concept, source, space plan, specify, budget and present your work all in one place.

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