An RFQ is mostly a number. The buyer will place your number alongside two others in a spreadsheet. Your proposal’s narrative provides the buyer with an understanding of how you arrived at your number and where you have not been precisely responsive. Answer the questions provided regarding the provided document, and respond to your colleagues’ posts. In your posts describing the document, refer to page numbers as needed. When referencing your colleagues, address them by name.
That’s where winning and losing quotes often stems from. Saying exceptions clarifies that you’ll get a call for that quote. Quoting alternatives and hoping they won’t be noticed gets that supplier eliminated at a technical check.
Not enthusiasm. When comparing quotes line by line, a buyer reads the price, lead time, payment terms, and exceptions, in that order, and then, ignores the rest. Making a case in an RFQ means being the easiest of them all to say “yes” to: clear units, stated period of validity, and no clauses which would be interpreted differently depending on the follow up email.
Generative RFQ copy adds marketing paragraphs around price tables. It can’t alert the buyer that item seven is a substituted part, and has a request to be confident and smooth over a loss rather than flag it as an exception. Omitting that would disqualify the competitive quote.
The buyer’s almost always argue that your price is too high. Discounts are rarely the answer. We’ll preempt that objection. What they are really asking is what is included that cheaper quotes leave out? How does the landed cost look when freight and certification are added? And how would your quote change if their volume would increase or decrease?
A quote should not have to be clarified by another email. Our goal with the cover note is to tell the next steps and the deadline and put the validity date in a spot that can’t be missed. We also include the name of the person who can answer any technical questions because we don’t want them to have to go through the generic mailbox.
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
| Typical RFQ respons | Words | Writing | Fee (1%) | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concise | 1,500 | $150 | $1.50 | $151.50 |
| Standard | 3,500 | $350 | $3.50 | $353.50 |
| Full submission | 7,000 | $700 | $7 | $707 |
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting. Full pricing breakdown.
Yes — 2 rounds are included, for 14 days after delivery, handled by the writer who wrote the piece rather than by someone new to the brief.
Fill in the order form with your brief and email address. No account needed. You get a confirmation by email, then the finished piece as a document within 3 days.
Stating an exception clearly is competence not weakness. It is weakness to have a vaguely worded clause that the buyer must email about. Usually, we write the exception, the reason for it, and the alternate you can supply, in three sentences.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
Body copy hit the nail on the first draft. The headline tried to be clever with a pun, but it only made sense to the person who made the pun, and that was the only person who could appreciate it. I flagged it and had four alternatives by the next morning. I used the second. Missed the first swing, but the quick fix version was well received.
Bid teams require mandatory answers, word counts, and criteria outlined in the headings. That is what we were missing. Refran, we have that so much covered in our house style that my tone drained out and I had to liven it before submission. It cost an evening, but at least we didn’t miss a requirement like those teams.
I’ve seen a lot of one-pagers that somehow stretch to three pages. This is one page. It’s got eleven point font with a whole lot of blank space. The writer asked about what our reps are being asked in the first ninety seconds of a call and built the sheet around those four questions. No account to set up either, which suits our purchasing regulations.
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