SC-SIG project- Template for tenders/RFI/RFPs

It is typical among companies at early stages of awareness of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (BDLT), to find time consuming and unclear their way to specify requirements in RFI/RFP when scouting for adoption of BDLTs. Each company, organization or institution tend to use their existing RFI/RFP templates with minimal modifications to include BDLTs requirements. This results in variegated type of information requests, multitude of RFI/RFP procedures, and questions more often than necessary out of target to motivate potential BDLTs providers to indicate their BDLTs capabilities to support the user’s supply chain management, processes, practices, and performance monitoring.

This small initiative will contribute to inform potential supply chain professionals and users about the capabilities of the BDLTs (i.e. SIG-SC use cases small project), and to develop a template that serves as a guideline to issue RFI/RFP with better specifications and procedures when scouting for BDLTs for the supply chain. The aim is to have a more unified stand among the BDLTs providers, to raise awareness internationally about what they do, how they do it, and how they add to the industry’s value chains.

There are 3 (non-exclusive) ways to get involved:

1) joining us over the next couple of months to develop a RFI/RFP template to request for BDLT solutions;

2) send us your views, and best practices of RFI/RFPs for BDLT solutions.

3) share the updates of this small project among your community.