Response to RFP for Large Ecommerce Platform

They wanted a fixed-bid, but the scope was too big so I proposed a team retainer

Let me preface by saying that I hate responding to RFPs (aka Request for Proposal documents.) They’re almost inevitably a waste of time, since the client normally already has someone in mind when they put them out, but they’re forced to nominally put their project out to bid by corporate policy or politics that are certain to mean they’re a shitty clien…