Part I: Before the RFP, ask yourself, “What do we want?”

There’s an old adage that says, “If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?”

You may have come to the general conclusion that you want to begin to work with a Managed IT Services Provider, but, before you fire off that Request for Proposal (RFP) to the first six companies that come back in your Google search, you should take the time to establish exactly why you’ve come to that conclusion, and exactly what you want to get out the relationship once it’s begun.