A lot of the work that I do on the side is helping nonprofits investigate and choose vendor partners for major tech upgrades. Website rebuilds, Art Management (Collections) systems, fundraising systems, CRMs, that kind of thing. I frequently get asked what to include in an RFP (or sometimes get asked to write them).
Here is a list of typical content across many of the requests for proposals/requests for qualifications/requests for information that I’ve been part of sending out.