Request for Proposal

Examples of Request for Proposal in the following topics:

• The Election Year Budget

  • The 2016 budget plan President Obama proposed requested 4 trillion in fiscal year 2016.
  • His proposal called for 74 billion in additional discretionary spending above the sequestration caps set in place.
  • This budget request is President Obama’s first on-time budget proposal since 2011.
  • The president proposed $60 billion over 10 years for a new initiative that would allow students to attend community college for up to two years tuition free and would again provide expanded Head Start and universal pre-kindergarten.
  • The president proposes to pay for this through various tax reforms.

• Formal Methods of Amending the Constitution

  • If at least two-thirds of the legislatures of the states make the request, Congress is then required to call a convention for the purpose of proposing amendments.
  • This provision, many scholars argue, allows for a check on the power of the Congress to limit potential constitutional amendments.The state legislatures have, in times past, used their power to apply for a national convention in order to pressure Congress into proposing a desired amendment.
  • Senators caused such proposals to regularly pass the House of Representatives only to die in the Senate.
  • Virginia (1798), the Supreme Court held that it is not necessary to place constitutional amendments before the President for signature and that, by the same logic, the President is powerless to veto a proposed constitutional amendment.
  • Although a proposed amendment is effective after three-fourths of the states ratify it, states have, in many instances, ratified an amendment that has already become law, often for symbolic reasons.

• Preparing the Budget

  • A great deal of preparation goes into the president's budget request submission, which is entitled, Budget of the U.S.
  • It is also responsible, later, for administering that budget to executive branch agencies.
  • In preparation for submitting a final presidential budget request to Congress, the OMB also ensures that reports from individual agencies, along with any rules, testimony, and proposed legislation, are consistent with the president's budget request and administration policies.
  • They perform in-depth program evaluations and review federal agency budget requests to decide which resource requests will be sent to Congress under the president's budget.
  • The Office of Management and Budget plays a key role in preparing the president's budget request to Congress.

• Privacy Rights and the Right to Die

  • The state of Washington voters saw Ballot Initiative 119 in 1991, the state of California placed Proposition 161 on the ballot in 1992, Oregon voters passed Measure 16 (Death with Dignity Act) in 1994, the state of Michigan included Proposal B in their ballot in 1998, and Washington's Initiative 1000 passed in 2008.
  • The state of Michigan included Proposal B in their ballot in 1998.
  • The process is set forth in law, including the requirements that the patient must be of sound mind when requesting assisted suicide, as confirmed by a doctor and other witnesses.
  • The patient must be of sound mind when they request a prescription for a lethal dose of medication.
  • Two witnesses, one non-doctor unrelated to the patient, must confirm the patient's request, and the patient must make a second request after 15 days.

• Introduction to Writing in Business

  • Some of the writing genres you will encounter in the business world include the following: resumes and cover letters, proposals, instructions, business and sales letters, emails, business plans, case analyses, memoranda, performance reviews, and professional biographies.
  • Depending on whether you want to simply inform, convey good news, make a direct request, convey bad news, or persuade your audience of something, you might choose from any of the following organizational structures:
  • Direct and to the point; starts right away with a problem or request
  • It's also crucial to remember that any and all forms of business writing should be appropriate for secondary audiences as well (i.e., people or groups for whom the writing may not have been originally intended, but who might read it anyway).
  • For example, you might submit a proposal to your direct supervisor (your primary audience), who in turn may pass it on to his or her supervisor, a task force or committee, or some other secondary audience.

• Compliance

  • For instance, an individual is more likely to comply with the requests of her sorority than her biology classmates.
  • For example, Timmy asks his mom for permission to go over to John's house for an hour.
  • For instance, Jane asks her parents to pay for her vacation to Australia.
  • She then says, "Well, if you won't pay for me to go to Australia, will you at least pay for me to go to New York?"
  • The same request made in isolation, however (just asking for a trip to New York), would not have been as effective.

• Appropriate Tone

  • Even then prudence must be taken, as an email to a supervisor requires a more formal tone than one to a coworker requesting a lunch date.
  • While this might only seem appropriate for writers of literature, business writers also need to be concerned about tone.
  • Answering the following questions will help you determine the tone of your communication, whether it be a letter, memo, or proposal:
  • Even then prudence must be taken, as an email to a supervisor requires a more formal tone than one to a coworker requesting a lunch date.
  • Remember, the overall tone for any business writing is confident, courteous, and sincere.

• Employee Transfers

  • Transfers take place in response to goals, needs, talent, or employee requests; HR evaluates and executes transfers.
  • Transfers can occur for many different reasons; they can be driven by employees or managers.
  • For example, if a car maker wants to strategically grow its quality department to meet the goal of building safer cars, it may want to train additional staff for a transfer to the quality department.
  • Finally, employees may also request transfers in an organization for a number of different reasons (i.e., family or personal requirement, location requirements, change in interest, and working with different people).
  • The important component from a human resources perspective is making sure that the employee's concerns are legitimate and insuring that the transfer will be beneficial for the organization by assessing the employee's fit in the proposed transfer location.

• The Virginia and New Jersey Plans

  • The Virginia delegation took the initiative to frame the debate by immediately drawing up and presenting a proposal known as the Virginia Plan, James Madison is given chief credit for this proposal.
  • The New Jersey Plan was a counter-proposal for the structure of the federal government presented by William Paterson.
  • The resolutions proposed, for example, three new federal branches (legislative, executive and judicial).
  • The plan proposed:
  • Congress would elect a federal executive, consisting of multiple people, who cannot be re-elected and can be recalled by Congress when requested by the majority of executives of the states.

• Introduction to betweenness centrality

  • For example, let's suppose that I wanted to try to convince the Chancellor of my university to buy me a new computer.
  • According to the rules of our bureaucratic hierarchy, I must forward my request through my department chair, a dean, and an executive vice chancellor.
  • Each one of these people could delay the request, or even prevent my request from getting through.
  • I might forward my request to the Chancellor by both channels.
  • For networks with binary relations, Freeman created some measures of the centrality of individual actors based on their betweenness, as well overall graph centralization.