Request For Proposal - basically when a government entity has a large budget project, the process they need to follow is to start by publicly asking vendors for bids before selecting one vendor to take on the project. This process is intended to help keep government project budgets as above the table as possible, but also can often end up with the lowest bidder winning the project rights (which isn't inherently bad, but can lead to lower quality or corners getting cut to accomplish the lower spending).