RFPs next discussion for EventHuddle February edition

Industry discussion forum EventHuddle will be looking at requests for proposal (RFP) at its next edition.

EventHuddle CEO Kirk Thomas said: “Receiving a RFP should be a joyous occasion; someone out there has expressed an interest in potentially working with your company. But for hundreds of event venues and suppliers up and down the country, the RFP has become a torturous process. 

​”The explosion in agencies over the last decade has lead to many businesses receiving 50-100 RFPs a day, many with 24 hour response deadlines, some with as little as one hour. As if that isn’t daunting enough, they then need to contend with incompatible software, blanket RFPs which could be classed as spam, speculative RFPs (where the agency hasn’t won the business yet), duplicate RFPs (multiple agencies sending the same request),  etc. All while trying to manage the many other responsibilities of your job.”

The event takes place on Tuesday 28 February, from 8.15-10.30am at 1 Wimpole Street, London and will include breakfast.

The panel will look at the RFP process, discuss what needs to change, offer tips on how to handle the overwhelming task and answer questions. 

For more information and to sign up visit the EventHuddle site.

The January edition of EventHuddle saw a discussion of what would happen to the events industry post-Brexit.

Former MP and Rapiergroup MD Nick de Bois told attendees it was important for the industry to prepare for a no-deal Brexit. The former chief of staff to former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab said that no deal would be challenging, but not the end of the world, and advised event professionals to prepare for it by reading the government’s technical advice.