RFP clarifying questions guide.

Clarifying questions are strongest when they point to the exact source issue and avoid revealing private capture or pricing strategy.

Start with unresolved flags from Section L, Section M, attachments, amendments, portal instructions, or required forms.

Write the question so the buyer can answer the ambiguity without receiving your internal strategy.

Route every draft question through human review before external submission.

• Identify the source conflict.
• Quote or summarize the specific instruction.
• Ask one question at a time.
• Avoid strategy disclosure.
• Check the Q&A deadline.
• Route for human review before submission.

• Keep one source issue per question.
• Include enough source context for the buyer to locate the issue.
• Avoid disclosing private capture, pricing, teaming, or internal strategy.
• Verify wording and deadline with a human reviewer before submission.

• Losing the source reference after copying text into notes.
• Treating a draft artifact as final proposal guidance.
• Ordinary business-confidential proposal material may be stored and manually organized only in a private_storage_only project. AI features, Human Review, and background processing are locked off for that project.

• SourceFlag keeps answers, citations, excerpts, review flags, and proposal handoff work tied to the original public solicitation package.
• Teams can inspect public-opportunity summaries before creating a workspace.
• AI features and Human Review may be used only with customer-authorized public or unclassified solicitation material. Ordinary business-confidential proposal material may be stored and manually organized only in a private_storage_only project. AI features, Human Review, and background processing are locked off for that project. AI features, Human Review, and background processing are locked off for that project. Human review remains required before reliance.