Question

Describe the nature of the document "Request for Information", at which stage of the information system life cycle it is used and what is its content approximately. (answer must be 20 lines)

Answer 1

- Request for infromation(RFI) is a formal process to gather information from potential suppliers of service or goods.
- RFI to be written by consumers and sent to suppliers.
- RFI very useful institutions where organization has less knowledge on vendor and need the times and cost of evaluating vendos.
-RFI gather information on a market in a formal structured way.
- In stage 1 the health information department implemented system to track the information from patient records.
- It allow health records employees to document the request for information.
- In birth and development phase 1 the verification of those request, description of the document copied to reason completing the request.
-Many organizations use RFI for vendors' experience, expertise, and product offering.
-before writing RFI limit the information request.
-be specific with the information
-avoid the depth of detail, establish the format
- follow the previously established format
-limit information requests to resource and capability information.
- responding to RFI causes less time than responding to other formats.
-vendors use a response management platform to respond to RFI.
-entire response process through online include uploading scanned documents via mail
- RFI help decides if a vendor should receive RFP or RFQ.
-It takes time and skill
-provide more information on contract writers.
-It has 4 phases of life cycle like birth and development(stage 1), growth and maturity(stage 2 and 3), decline(stage 4).