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Responsive
Formerly RFPIO

Overview

What is Responsive?

Responsive (formerly RFPIO), headquartered in Beaverton, offers their proposal management and automation software, featuring import and export, proposal knowledgebase and answer library, evaluation intake forms, and project management tools (e.g. Gantt chart) associated to proposal tracking.

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Popular Features

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  • Searchable proposal database (16)
    9.8
    98%
  • Proposal content library updates (16)
    9.8
    98%
  • Proposal collaboration & approval (15)
    9.7
    97%
  • RFP management & response (16)
    9.6
    96%
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What is Responsive?

Responsive (formerly RFPIO), headquartered in Beaverton, offers their proposal management and automation software, featuring import and export, proposal knowledgebase and answer library, evaluation intake forms, and project management tools (e.g. Gantt chart) associated to proposal tracking.

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Proposal Creation & Organization

Features related to creating new proposals and saving proposals, including re-using portions of prior proposals.

9.5
Avg 8.1

Proposal Collaboration & Workflow

Features related to collaborating on proposals and automating proposal workflows, from creation to editing and approval.

9.1
Avg 8.2

Proposal Delivery

Features related to the distribution of proposals to clients and client interactions with proposals.

9.6
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is Responsive?

Responsive (formerly RFPIO) is an RFP response management solution, aiming to simplify responses to RFPs, RFIs, and Security Questionnaires. As an AI-enabled RFP software, Responsive boasts more than 150,000 users to share knowledge, collaborate, and digitally transform their response process.

Responsive aims to help its customers:
  • Improve proposal generation efficiency by an average of 40%
  • Submit more proposals (and win more deals)
  • Centralize answers in one place
  • Gain insight with built-in business analytics
  • Collaborate with unlimited team members at no extra cost

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Frequently Asked Questions

Responsive (formerly RFPIO), headquartered in Beaverton, offers their proposal management and automation software, featuring import and export, proposal knowledgebase and answer library, evaluation intake forms, and project management tools (e.g. Gantt chart) associated to proposal tracking.

Loopio, RFP360, and PandaDoc are common alternatives for Responsive.

Reviewers rate Proposal content library updates and Searchable proposal database highest, with a score of 9.8.

The most common users of Responsive are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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RFPIO is a versatile tool that addresses various needs and challenges in the RFP process. Users can easily import questionnaires from different formats such as excel, word, or PDF, allowing for seamless integration of existing content. This feature has been praised by customers for its convenience and flexibility.

The tool streamlines collaboration among the RFP team, salespeople, and subject matter experts. Questions can be answered and submitted to SMEs for further assistance, ensuring accuracy and expertise in the responses. Salespeople are assigned specific sections for review and approval, facilitating efficient workflow management. RFPIO's ability to engage the sales team and SMEs in the RFP process has proven to be a valuable asset for organizations.

One of the significant benefits of using RFPIO is its impact on time efficiency. The tool significantly reduces the time from RFP request to response, enabling users to meet deadlines effortlessly. Furthermore, by managing a library of technical question and answer pairs, RFPIO reduces the burden on subject matter experts by providing ready-made responses that can be easily customized. This has been highlighted by users as a major time-saving feature.

RFPIO also plays a crucial role in content organization and collaboration across departments and locations. It helps consolidate national resources and facilitates efficient information sharing between teams. The tool ensures quality control, consistency, and language standardization across various departments. With its robust search capabilities, users can quickly find relevant answers from the library and easily add them to questions.

In addition to addressing RFP requirements, RFPIO supports other types of requests such as RFIs, RFQs, and Security Questionnaires. The tool acts as a repository for RFP questions and documents, enabling accurate tracking of project progress. It also serves as a content management system, ensuring that content stays updated through regular reviews and updates assigned to specific owners.

Overall, RFPIO simplifies the proposal process by centralizing answers and aligning them with common RFP templates. It has been widely adopted by the sales organization to complete RFPs and has received positive feedback for its seamless and efficient user experience. By reducing response time and facilitating collaboration, RFPIO empowers users to deliver high-quality responses while saving valuable time and resources.

Import/Export Feature: Users have found the import and export functionality to be invaluable, saving them a significant amount of time and enabling easy exporting of pre-formatted content. The flexibility of exporting into native formats or customized templates for Word, Excel, and PDF has been highly appreciated.

Auto-Response Feature: The auto-response capability has received high praise from users as it greatly reduces the manual effort required to respond to questionnaires. Reviewers mentioned that the system can automatically generate responses based on past answers, becoming smarter over time and handling a substantial percentage of the responses.

Keyword Field Mapping Functionality: Reviewers have highlighted the value of the keyword field mapping feature. It allows users to seamlessly map fields into their desired export template and responses, resulting in customized responses without additional effort. This functionality has proven particularly useful for mapping salesperson information, client names, and client nicknames.

Duplicate Records Creation: Some users have found that the Answer library in RFPIO can create duplicate records for each Q&A, resulting in unnecessary administrative work to merge duplicates. This issue adds extra burden and time-consuming tasks for the users.

Limited Salesforce Integrations: A number of reviewers have expressed frustration with the lack of Salesforce integrations available for users who are not on SF Enterprise. The absence of these integrations restricts their ability to fully leverage RFPIO's capabilities and integrate seamlessly with their existing Salesforce workflows.

Absence of Custom Roles Settings: Reviewers have mentioned the absence of custom roles settings in RFPIO as a drawback. Being able to define and customize user roles would provide significant value by allowing teams to limit access based on different user roles, enhancing security and control within the software.

Users recommend the following for RFPIO:

  1. Assign dedicated admins and provide thorough training: It is suggested that one or two employees be designated as administrators to efficiently manage RFPIO and train others. Users recommend conducting research and discussing specific needs with RFPIO before transitioning to the platform. Thorough planning and comprehensive training for all team members are advised.

  2. Gather content from subject matter experts (SMEs) and utilize RFPIO for total content management: Prior to onboarding, it is highly recommended to conduct interviews with SMEs to gather relevant content for RFPIO. Users find RFPIO valuable for managing all types of content, including proposals and questionnaires. They mention that it promotes document organization, team coordination, and efficient collaboration.

  3. Carefully plan implementation and involve all stakeholders: Users emphasize the importance of careful planning during the implementation process. They suggest involving key stakeholders from the beginning and arranging a WebEx demonstration to experience how user-friendly RFPIO is. When searching for a proposal management tool, users also recommend evaluating RFPIO alongside other options.

In summary, users advise trying out RFPIO due to its time-saving capabilities, ease of use, and superior features compared to alternative tools. They suggest obtaining executive buy-in, empowering system administrators, and educating collaborators on maximizing the benefits of using RFPIO. It is also highlighted that migrating strong content to RFPIO and gaining buy-in from company leadership are important steps.

Users appreciate the responsive support team, excellent search algorithm, ease of document storage, and repository for responses provided by RFPIO. They encourage obtaining proper training for formatting needs within RFPIO, organizing content in advance, and cleaning up historical data before uploading it to the platform.

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