Partner Selection

Many of our projects involve some element of partner qualification and selection as part of a bigger picture, but we also provide RFP and partner selection as a distinct service. Our familiarity with the Payments landscape and our experience working with many of the service providers in the industry means we are quickly able to create long-lists of potential partners, with an RFI or RFP process to create a short-list of strong contenders.

We have built a number of tools to assist in the process, not to make the decision but to help inform it. These tools accelerate the process by helping to quickly distill the information provided into a configurable set of templates that automatically calculate results. They also makes the process collaborative and inclusive, and add in an element of objectivity. Two such tools favoured by us and our clients are:

Where we can help

• Creating a long-list of organisations based on our knowledge and experience

• Writing the RFI or RFP based on templates

• Distilling the provided information into a reliable means of comparing organisations, and creating a short-list

• Deep-dive sessions with short-listed organisations to review product / service features and functions along with operational stability and performance - we know what questions to ask to tease out the pros and cons

• Partner selection / recommendation

• Cost forecasting, commercials, negotiation.

A sample of our Partner Selection projects