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7 ASSESSING LONGLIST CANDIDATES: SELECTING THE SHORTLIST USING THE RFI

‘I’ll give you a definite maybe.’

Sam Goldwyn (1879–1974)

7.1 WHAT YOU CAN LEARN FROM THIS CHAPTER

• Understand how to evaluate your longlist of candidates to create a shortlist confidently – by ensuring that your process for the Request For Information (RFI) is both effective and efficient.
• Understand the nature, purpose and format of the RFI.
• Appreciate the nature of effective RFI questions, to help select and write them.
• Grasp the approaches to assessing the candidate supplier responses.
• Recognise ways to summarise and present your findings from the assessment meeting. ...