My Work Log

 

While I have already elaborated on what goes into a project commercial proposal and also the whole process of project initiation and where the technical proposal and commercial proposal stand in that scheme of things ……………I haven’t spoken about what goes into a Technical Proposal.  Here is the run down on it:

 

I am pasting the TOC – which would serve as a self explanatory scroll-down on various sections of the technical proposal.  Some sections which need a bit of elaboration have been mentioned within brackets.  While this is not elaborate ……I should caution the reader that in some contexts the technical proposal may contain additional sections and in some a couple of sections could be redundant.

 

1    Project Background

1.1    About This Document

2    Intended Audience

3    Scope of Implementation

4    Scope Exclusions

5    Solution Overview

6    Technology Overview

7    Solution architecture and design

8    Execution Model (Sequence of activities during implementation)

9    Quality Assurance plan (Details about testing activities and all aspects of testing)

10    Change Request Management

11    Deliverables and Acceptance Criteria

12    Work Plan  - The various phases of the project and the mpp which gives complete project plan.

13    Deployment Plan – All aspects of go-live and dependencies/sequencing of deployment

14    Hardware Procurement Plan

14.1    Hardware Installation Details

14.2    Hardware Details

16    Support Phase

17    Warranty and Maintenance Support

18    Governance Model

18.1    Governance Overview

18.2    Governance Operating Model

19    Program Management

20    Requirements from Customer and End User

21    Key Assumptions

22    Commercials

23    Terms & Conditions

24    Conclusion

25    List of Annexure