request for proposal

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request for proposal - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  request for proposal
  
     <programming> (RFP) The publication by a prospective software
     purchaser of details of the required system in order to
     attract offers by software developers to supply it.  Software
     development under contract starts with the selection of the
     software developer by the customer.  A request for proposal
     (also called in Britain an "invitation to tender") is the
     beginning of the selection process.
  
     [Bennatan, E.M., "Software Project Management", 2nd edition,
     McGraw-Hill International, 1992].
  
     (1995-12-04)