I recently had to writing a proposal for a web site design RFP which I had never done before.  The company I work for doesn’t typically respond to RFPs and we typically do development work, but this time we made an exception.

It was quite the learning experience to write the proposal and quite difficult because there were so many unknowns, despite the details of the RFP.  In addition, since the company I work for really isn’t a design firm, we weren’t sure what the ‘other guys’ would propose.  Unfortunately, we didn’t get the work, but I’m still curious as to how other companies price web site design jobs.  The design company Blue Flavor has published the blog entry Pricing a Project which is a little inside-look at how they price projects and is very insightful.