RFP

English

Noun

RFP (plural RFPs)

  1. (business) Initialism of request for proposal.
    • 2025 September 2, “2026 American Society of Civil Engineers Concrete Canoe Competiton Request for Proposals”, in ASCE[1], archived from the original on 7 September 2025, page 1:
      Some of the changes include: re-formatting the RFP to increase visual accessibility, overhauling the project proposal deliverables, increasing the “bite” of material compliance deductions associated with the Materials Notebook, placing a minimum freeboard design constraint on the canoe itself, re-introducing the calculations appendix, restricting the format of presentation slides, restricting the use of pigments and stains, tweaking the final product display, imposing a maximum unit weight requirement, and completely overhauling the scoring system.
  2. (law) Initialism of request for production.

(request for proposals):

  • RFI (request for information)
  • RFC (request for comment)

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