6 Part 6: V-Modell Reference Activities

6.3 Activities

6.3.1 Supply and Contracting

6.3.1.1 Submitting an Offer

Purpose

The aim of the activity »Submitting an Offer is to prepare the offer and to submit the »Offer to the acquirer.

When the offer will be prepared, the solicitor will charge the team that prepares the offer with the work required for the offer and track the performance of the work.

The topic »Suggested Technical Solution in the »Assessment of Request for Proposal will be applied to specify and evaluate the performance characteristics both technically and with regard to the expenditures, and to improve them in an iterative process. For this purpose, it may be necessary to prepare a first preliminary draft of the system architecture. If External Units, External Hardware Modules or External Software Modules are identified during this process, it may be necessary to consider a make-or-buy decision for the first time. The resulting technical solution will be used as a basis for the generation of the topics »Annex 1: Specification of Services and »Offer - Legal and Commercial Clauses and Conditions.

After defining the delivery units and services and the »Annex 2: Offer-Relevant Parts of the Project Manual (Supplier) and »Annex 3: Offer-Relevant Parts of the QA Manual (Supplier) a calculatory evaluation of the offer can be performed.

At the same time the documents for the topic »General Clauses and Conditions will be compiled.