RFP Associates

09/04/2025

It should go without saying that selecting a communications firm deserves the same scrutiny as hiring a full team, because your budget, communications success, and organizational reputation depend on it.

Selecting a communications firm deserves the same scrutiny as hiring a full team, because your budget, communications success, and organizational reputation depend on it.

01/31/2024

Platforms offer seamless integration of client and agency matching tools, promoted profiles, RFPs, publishing and events to create connections and drive new business

01/17/2024

"...Our research and report paint a troublesome picture: companies dedicate more time and effort to hiring a $150k manager than the $1m+ agency."
Appreciate Page Society reposting our blog on the value of - Simon Erskine Locke CommunicationsMatch

Written By: Steve Drake and Robert Udowitz from RFP Associates  You need to hire a new agency and you’re allocating a healthy budget for a multi-country campaign. The firms you’ve worked with in the past have been good but there’s some recurring concerns you’d really like to avoid this...

02/10/2023

Nice coverage from PRWeek on CommunicationsMatch and RFP Associates expansion of our tools https://www.prweek.com/article/1812729/communicationsmatch-expands-rfp-tools

CommunicationsMatch expands RFP tools. From PR Week

01/31/2023

Public Relations RFPs: CommunicationsMatch & RFP Associates launch public option to post, share, manage & respond to requests for proposals via Capitol Communicator Simon Erskine Locke

Capitol Communicator reports that CommunicationsMatch™ has added a public posting option to its Agency Select™ tools.

11/02/2021

Recommendations have always been important for public relations agencies and professionals. Online reviews, testimonials, and recommendations have, and will, become more important in the digital landscape. In a new article for CommPRO, I note that, during the pandemic word-of-mouth has lost one of i...

10/12/2021

Thanks to for featuring RFP Associates on the latest installment of his Public Relations Review on the topic of and selection a firm

On occasion an organization may have a massive project, be understaffed or simply lack the skills to produce an important event. This is when hiring a public relations, marketing or digital firm may be the answer to successfully complete your pro...

10/07/2021

The RFP process is broken. If client-organizations & agencies implement RFP best practices it can be fixed. As a 20-year CorpComm veteran, I’ve issued my share of RFPs, and as an agency leader I’ve responded to them. As CEO of CommunicationsMatch, we

10/07/2021

The RFP process is broken. But... if clients & agencies implement RFP best practices outlined here, it can be fixed. That's the focus. A way forward - Simon Erskine Locke has issued RFPs, received them, & at CommunicationsMatch, worked with blue-chip clients to issue them for agency search projects using the Agency Select tools we developed with RFP Associates to streamline the process.

The RFP process is broken. If client-organizations & agencies implement RFP best practices it can be fixed. As a 20-year CorpComm veteran, I’ve issued my share of RFPs, and as an agency leader I’ve responded to them. As CEO of CommunicationsMatch, we

07/20/2021

Our online RFQ and RFP Tools with CommunicationsMatch received a big boost today as Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) launched its new agency search and hiring tools - Capitol Communicator. https://capitolcommunicator.com/rfp-associates-online-rfp-tools-receive-boost-as-prsa-launches-new-agency-search-hiring-tools/ #.YPbzY4BZFis.twitter

Capitol Communicator reports that PRSA has launched a new agency, professional and resources search tool dubbed Find a Firm.