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    Responsive

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AResponsive (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.N/A
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    Free Trial
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Responsive
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    Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
    Chose Responsive
    Responsive has better UI and pricing
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    RFPIO has outstanding, responsive, helpful customer support located in the US in Oregon. Support techs go the extra mile to help with basic issues and functionality training. Same-day support response and problem resolution are the norms. The system is also very user-friendly …
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    RFPIO's licensing model is a bit different from others which worked better for our organization. Rather than licensing by a number of users, it's licensed by the active project. This allows us to add multiple users that are responsible for reviewing and updating content without …
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    Unfortunately, I have not had the opportunity to use or evaluate other products like RFPIO. When I was hired, my company had just purchased our RFPIO software.
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    I greatly prefer RFPIO over Loopio. It's a much cleaner interface and the searchable library is amazing.
    Incentivized
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    We are a small proposal team, with a large group of resources who support our responses. RFPIO is easy to use for internal and external users, doesn't require extensive onboarding for new users, and is constantly adding new capabilities and enhancements to make the product even …
    Incentivized
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    Similar feature sets. No in-depth comparisons yet.
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    Qvidian, as I remember it, was clunky and difficult to use. Not user friendly at all.
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    I have not seen another tool in the market that is collaborative or intuitive. Those features are very impressive.
    Incentivized
    Chose Responsive
    I've only used RFPIO to compile responses to RFPs, and I've only used Scout RFP to respond to RFPs issued within Scout (i.e., the customer sent us an RFP without Scout RFP and asked the response and all communication to go through Scout RFP).

    As such, I've used two tools, but …
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    Chose Responsive
    At the time, three years ago, we evaluated Loopio as an alternative to RFPIO. Loopio didn't have the same resources as far as dynamic branding, content segmentation ability and was less price competitive than RFPIO. RFPIO also has an unlimited user model where you are not …
    Incentivized
    Chose Responsive
    • RFP360 - We used this tool for three years and it was a great first step/upgrade from a searchable Google doc. We decided to start evaluating other systems for a couple of reasons:
      • RFP360 is an end-to-end tool for RFP requestors and responders. We felt they were more focused on …
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    Key User Insights
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Responsive
    Proposal Creation & Organization
    Comparison of Proposal Creation & Organization features of Responsive
    Feature
    Responsive
    7.4
    17 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Proposal branding8.011 Ratings
    Proposal templates5.014 Ratings
    Proposal content library updates9.017 Ratings
    Guided proposal creation8.09 Ratings
    Searchable proposal database7.017 Ratings
    Proposal Collaboration & Workflow
    Comparison of Proposal Collaboration & Workflow features of Responsive
    Feature
    Responsive
    7.4
    17 Ratings
    9% below category average
    RFP management & response8.017 Ratings
    Proposal collaboration & approval8.016 Ratings
    User permissions/proposal editing controls9.016 Ratings
    Sales proposal workflow6.011 Ratings
    Proposal automation user interface6.016 Ratings
    Proposal Delivery
    Comparison of Proposal Delivery features of Responsive
    Feature
    Responsive
    8.0
    13 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Proposal distribution8.010 Ratings
    Interactive proposals8.07 Ratings
    Proposal content tracking8.011 Ratings
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    Responsive
    Small Businesses
    Qwilr
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Responsive
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (18 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (16 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (16 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Responsive
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
    1. RFPIO is perfect for searching for specific information when you are responding to an RFP. Search engine is powerful. We narrow our search using several customized filters and know we are getting a thorough search. 2. Excel responses work very well in RFPIO. 3. Typical RFPs that are formatted in Word are challenging to run via RFPIO. We struggle with this. 4. We have yet to master the template.
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    Pros
    Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
    • Live collaboration - the ability for multiple experts to simultaneously work on the same RFP.
    • Artificial intelligence - the ability for the product to continually learn what the best answers are and serve them up to our teams.
    • Dynamic branding - the ability for custom brand different templates by vertical, line of business, local branding, etc. with seamless transition.
    • Content review & moderation - the ability for our national content team to bulk review, edit and share content with our teams in a methodical way.
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    Cons
    Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
    • Reporting and Analytics is basic, you can purchase advanced analytics though
    • It would have been nice to have a set structure in mind or a example/case study to structure our responses in the most appropriate way, but we are working through that with their stellar support team
    • Really great new features, but expensive
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
    UI is friendly. Basically that alone is enough to renew because it is easy to use and gives accurate and fast results. The effective cross collaboration from other colleagues in my organization also makes for this tool to be extremely effective. Now that I understand how to use it, I can also easily train others on how to use it effectively.
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    Support Rating
    Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
    The team at RFPIO is extremely responsive. If I email our account manager or report a bug, I usually hear back within two hours. Additionally, they are quick to make software adjustments based on customer requests and needs. We had a really complicated Excel sheet that their team ended up having to upload for me because of the amount of manual work I was doing. Based on that, they updated the software within two release cycles to make the process more automated, so that future Excel uploads would be more streamlined. I have also had several suggestions implemented rather quickly, and they don't hesitate to reach out for clarification when needed.
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    Implementation Rating
    Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
    We were able to complete an RFP during our free trial. We were already leaning toward RFPIO but that pushed us over the edge.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
    RFPIO has outstanding, responsive, helpful customer support located in the US in Oregon. Support techs go the extra mile to help with basic issues and functionality training. Same-day support response and problem resolution are the norms. The system is also very user-friendly and very easy to navigate. Their Answer library is simple and far less complex than Qvidian/Inland. Little to no learning curve.
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    Return on Investment
    Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
    • I don't have access to the actual ROI data, but we would continue to invest in RFPIO as a company only if it were providing us with the results to win RFPs.
    • RFPIO makes the task of filling out RFP responses much faster for me.
    • RFPIO helps our team be able to divide out RFP chores easily, because we know we all have access to the same high-quality source for information.
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