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Case Study: Developing an RFP for Outsourcing Warehouse Design

ScottMadden worked with a southeastern not-for-profit transmission cooperative to develop functional requirements for a new materials warehouse and develop an RFP to facilitate vendor selection.

• The client's warehouse was barely adequate for its existing needs, and its future needs were forecast to be significantly greater
• The existing lease was scheduled to expire in a few years
• Two of the client's sister companies expressed interest in building a warehouse to the client's specifications
• The client needed an objective, third-party assessment of its needs, a vehicle to communicate those needs, and an objective method to evaluate the responses
• ScottMadden was asked to help define the warehousing needs, develop an RFP for a new warehouse, and create a response template to facilitate vendor selection
  

• Researched leading practices for warehouse design and layout
• Measured current storage requirements and forecasted future storage requirements
• Conducted interviews and facilitated meetings to refine functional requirements
• Validated the functional requirements with the client's internal warehouse RFP team
• Finalized the RFP and tool to evaluate vendor responses

• Identified clients business requirements for a materials warehouse
• Created RFP background and questionnaire template to compare responses and simplify vendor selection process
  
• Developed potential future warehouse designs to conceptually convey space and storage structure requirements to vendors