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Technology in Marketing: Developing a Law Firm Web Site RFP

By Joshua Fruchter and Peter Bell
November 27, 2007

Imagine you want to build a new house and have interviewed three contractors to obtain bids for the job. One bid $100,000, another bid $200,000, and the third bid $500,000. How would you decide between them? The answer is you couldn't make an apples-to-apples comparison unless the contractors were basing their bids on a single set of architectural plans specifying size, materials and other construction details.

Yet, when many law firms decide to build a new Web site, they solicit bids from vendors without first developing specifications detailing the desired features and functionality for the site. As a result, such firms receive disparate bids without an adequate basis for comparison. And in many such cases, a firm ends up selecting one of the lower bidders only to experience frustration when disputes arise with the selected vendor over increased costs and delays as the scope of work changes over the course of the project.

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