問25
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ある業務システムの新規開発を計画している企業が, SIベンダに出すRFPの目的として, 最も適切なものはどれか。
平成23年度 秋期 ITパスポート試験 問25
ストラテジ系システム企画 › 調達計画・実施
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解説
問 25
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Wanting to obtain technical information in order to learn the implementation method and its feasibility is the purpose of an RFI (Request For Information). An RFI comes at a stage before the RFP: it is issued to grasp what technologies, products, and services exist on the market and to firm up the requirements that will be written into the RFP. It is not a document for collecting proposals and deciding the contractor.
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Wanting to look at vendors' capabilities from the information obtained and thereby narrow down the candidates is also a purpose of the RFI stage. An RFP asks the vendors who remain as candidates for formal proposals, so its role differs from the information gathering that comes before the candidate contractors are screened.
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正解 An RFP (Request For Proposal) is a document in which the ordering company that plans to procure a system sets out the purpose of the systemization, the business requirements, the budget, the delivery deadline, the items to be written in the proposal and its submission deadline, and so on, presents them to vendors, and asks the vendors to submit concrete proposals. The ordering side collects proposals from several vendors under the same conditions, and compares and evaluates the proposed system configuration, development method, project organization, quoted price, schedule, and the like side by side in order to decide the most suitable contractor. Therefore ウ, which says the company wants to select the most suitable contractor from the proposal contents presented by vendors in order to entrust the development of the business system, is the most appropriate purpose of an RFP.
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Concluding a confidentiality (NDA) agreement is a separate contractual procedure carried out when the company discloses its own business information to a vendor; it is not the purpose of an RFP. An NDA may indeed be signed before or after the RFP is distributed, but the RFP itself is a document that requests proposals, not a document for obtaining the other party's consent.
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- An RFP (Request For Proposal) is a document that presents the purpose, requirements, budget, delivery deadline, and so on of the system to be procured and asks several vendors to submit proposals; its purpose is to compare and evaluate the proposals received and select the contractor.
- An RFI (Request For Information) is issued at the stage before the RFP; it requests information such as technology trends, product information, and vendors' track records and capabilities, and is used to make the requirements concrete and to narrow down the candidates. Keep in mind this order and difference of roles: the RFI is for gathering information, while the RFP is for requesting proposals and selecting the contractor.
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