Ex-copywriter turned content strategist with two decades of creative chaos under her belt. She's helped scale content, brands and frozen pies—yes, really. Now? She empowers creatives to work smarter, not smaller.
Enterprise companies use graphic design requests for proposals (RFPs) as part of a coherent, systematic process for evaluating prospective outsourced creative partners.
Once a creative services RFP has been issued and the prospective partners have submitted their responses, it’s time to objectively compare these bids based on key criteria ranging from the quality of the creative to how each partner best supports your team.
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For enterprise and mid-market businesses looking to enhance their creative capabilities and scale overall capacity, issuing graphic design RFPs are an essential part of the formalized procurement process for agencies, contractors and other external partners.
RFPs create a structured, transparent framework for assessing and comparing service proposals from different outsourced creative partners.
Creative agency requests for proposals (RFPs) are conversation starters—incredibly important icebreakers.
Mid-market and enterprise teams issuing the requests are introducing their brands, key business challenges and expectations of their creative service partners.
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