Traditional methods of networking were once the best means for discovering new request for proposal opportunities. Searching for Government RFPs online differs from searching for corporate issued and non-profit business RFPs. Learn some of the best ways to leverage the power of the Internet in your search for winning bids.
The primary online tools for finding anything are the major search engines, unfortunately the structure of most request for proposals cause the engines to return out of date results. Governments have open bidding requirements encouraging (often requiring) the posting of their RFPs and RFQs online. Many online RFP services offer automated listings of these Government RFP dumps. Request for proposal listing sites with mixed sourcing are a good place to find private industry projects.
Old-fashioned networking has been augmented by new social networking groups and tools. If you are a twitter person you may find RFPs as tweets, if you are a blog follower there are blogs dedicated to requests for proposals. LinkedIn is also a premiere place for professionals to connect in one of their RFP groups. The best means for automating your access to these types of websites is to utilize syndication to subscribe to a RFP listing as RSS feed or RFP listing as Atom feed.