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Optimizing RFPs: Simple Steps to Better Responses
December 6, 2006

Beth Mandel
Director of Strategic Solutions
Covance


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Is your organization in the process of putting together an RFP? Have the responses to your past RFPs fallen short of expectations? CRO teams respond to hundreds of RFPs each year. It is clear which sponsors have invested time to build internal consensus and to develop a document that clearly articulates their needs and project goals. The result is a guide that assists the CRO in assembling a higher quality response that directly addresses the needs of the sponsor. This audio conference will be the first in a three-part series designed to share best practices for optimal outsourcing.

This audio conference addressed:

  • Using the outsourcing process to add value
  • Preparing an effective RFP
  • Creating a road map to manage the RFP touchpoints
  • Gaining insight into what CROs term 'best practice'
About the speaker:
Beth Mandel is Director of the Strategic Solutions Group at Covance, where she evaluates business proposals and provides input on RFP responses for new clinical development opportunities. She has reviewed more than 500 RFPs and proposals, giving her an excellent knowledge of how they should and should not be structured. Beth has been with Covance for 19 years, during which time she has held a variety of positions within clinical development spanning diverse therapeutic specialties including infectious disease, pulmonology, CNS and general medicine. She established the Trial Logistics Group at Covance, and served as director for a stand-alone group dedicated to technology-enabled clinical trial services. She began her career as a clinical research associate and spent ten years as a project manager and project director. Beth has a BS in Pharmacy from Rutgers and is licensed in New Jersey and Florida. She is also an active member of the American Pharmaceutical Association.

Who should attend?

  • Outsourcing Directors and VPs
  • Outsourcing Managers
  • Senior Management
  • Clinical Directors and VPs
  • Global Project Directors
  • Senior Clinical Managers
  • Senior Operational Managers
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