When a Request for Proposal includes mandatory criteria, all bidders should meet them. If you don’t, you won’t win. (Usually.)
But what about a Request for Information?
In that case some latitude is possible. Tell the agency what you do, what you could do, and what you can’t or won’t do.
But if you can’t perform ANYTHING the RFI requests, no point in submitting a response.
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