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      <description>Compare ERP software: Discover the 8 key modules to base your selection on and tools you must use in order to save up to 85% of time and money you'd spend gathering information on your own. Beyond mere requests for proposals (RFP) templates, get every criteria already responded to by ERP software vendors, available to you right now in an Excel spreadsheet. So no need to chase vendors down, wait days, weeks, or months for their reply to compare ERP software. How to compare ERP software systems. Find your best-fit ERP software.</description>
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      <description>Find out how using a software RFP (request for proposals) template can simplify the software selection process&amp;mdash;and alleviate a lot of headache! When it comes to choosing the right enterprise software; time is money. But with a software RFP template, gathering and prioritizing your software requirements becomes a walk in the park. Criteria is predefined for you and written in a language that software vendors understand&amp;mdash;allowing an apples-to-apples comparison. Save months of time on your software selection and download one of our software RFP templates today.</description>
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      <description>Official letter for competitive procurement (RFP/Bid-based solicitation). Is There a Mandatory Format for an Official Letter? How to Write an Official Letter? FREE template and sample.</description>
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      <description>The Request for Proposals (RFP) template for Accounting Software available online helps you select the Accounting system that best fits your needs. The FREE Accounting Software RFP template sample unveils the first 2 levels of the decision hierarchy. The full Accounting Software RFP template features the 5 levels of decision criteria, for a total of 4,122 decision criteria. Involved in an Accounting Software selection, get your FREE Accounting Software RFP template sample...</description>
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      <title>Discrete Enterprise Resource Planning (Discrete ERP) RFP Template</title>
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      <description>FREE Executive Summary template: Apply the S.P.A. rule to write the most efficient executive summary ever. Free template, tips, books, and web references. Understand what an executive summary is -and what it is not. Discover techniques in order to write an executive summary that stands above the competition. Learn common pitfalls that make people write an abstract instead of an executive summary. Read the best books and web references about the perfect executive summary...</description>
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      <title>Federal Procurement Essentials: Sealed Bids</title>
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      <description>Discover what makes your procurement process provide for full and open competition. Learn what are the different competitive procurement methods. Get an introduction to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), the official document setting forth procurement policies and procedures that US federal agencies should follow when soliciting offers (bids or proposals) for goods, products, services, or construction from qualified suppliers...</description>
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      <title>Sole Source Justification and Approval (J&amp;A)</title>
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      <title>The Bid/No-Bid Analysis</title>
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      <description>The bid/no-bid analysis is the assessment, whether quantitative, qualitative, or usually both, of risks inherent to the choice of whether submitting or not submitting an offer upon receipt of an invitation to do so. If you decide to submit a bid, you will send a letter of intent to express you intention to bid. At the contrary, if you find the opportunity not so appealing that you decided not to bid, you are highly encouraged to send the requesting organization a no-bid letter. Learn tips on how to run a professional, effective bid/no-bid analysis...</description>
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      <description>Readability scores are statistical indicators that measure how easily an adult can read and understand a text. Readability statistics are therefore good predictors of the level of difficulty of particularly technical documents. They present different readability scores that are computed using readability formulas. The most commonly used readability statistics formulas are: Passive Sentences, Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, Coleman-Liau Grade Level, and Bormuth Grade Level...</description>
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      <description>The Bormuth Grade Level readability score formula assesses readability of a text. Also known as Degrees of Reading Power (DRP). Bormuth Grade Level score, formula, macro, and example. Learn how to display Bormuth Grade Level readability score in MS Word. Like other best-known readability scores, the Bormuth Grade Level readability score is also based on a count of characters rather than syllables per word and words per sentence to determine a score corresponding to the estimated grade level or grade level score. The formula was designed to evaluate more academic documents, i.e. school textbooks...</description>
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      <description>The Coleman-Liau Grade Level readability score formula gauges the understandability of a text. Coleman-Liau Grade Level score, formula, macro, and example. Learn how to display Coleman-Liau Grade Level readability score in MS Word. The formula uses word length in characters and sentence length in words to determine a score corresponding to the estimated grade level or grade level score...</description>
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      <description>A lower Flesch-Kincaid readability score for your text ensures a better readability. Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease score, formula, macro, and example. Learn how to display Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease readability score in MS Word. The Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level readability score rates text on a U.S. grade-school level based on the average number of syllables per word and words per sentence. For example, a score of 8.0 means that an eighth grader would understand the text. Given standard writing averages seventh to eighth grade, aim for a Flesch-Kincaid score between 7.0 and 8.0...</description>
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      <description>Aim at a higher Flesch Reading Ease readability score for better readability. Flesch Reading Ease readability score, formula, macro, and example. Learn how to display Flesch Reading Ease readability score in MS Word. The Flesch Reading Ease readability score formula rates text on a 100-point scale based on the average number of syllables per word and words per sentence. The higher the Flesch Reading Ease score, the easier it is to understand the document. For most standard documents, aim for a Flesch Reading Ease score of approximately 60 to 70...</description>
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      <description>Aim at a lower passive sentences score for better readability. Passive Sentences readability score, formula, macro, and example. Learn how to display Passive Sentences in MS Word. The Passive Sentences readability score formula provides the ratio of passive sentences over active sentences. The score is therefore expressed as a percentage of passive sentences found in a text...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>How to protest against Sole Source Solicitation?</title>
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      <description>Learn tips on how to protest against a Sole Source solicitation process. Sole Source is a non-competitive purchase or procurement process accomplished through solicitation or acceptance of a proposal from one single source...</description>
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      <title>The Dale-Chall list of 3,000 simple words</title>
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      <description>The Dale-Chall list contains 3,000 simple, familiar words, which 80% of 4th graders can understand. The list is used by the Dale-Chall Readability Grade Score (RGS) to assess the readability of written materials by rating text on a U.S. grade-school level. It is also used by other readability statistics, like the Bormuth Grade Level formula...</description>
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      <title>How to write a Letter of Intent?</title>
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      <title>Writing an RFP?</title>
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      <title>What is a Decision Matrix?</title>
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      <title>What is Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM)?</title>
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