Introduction

Greetings everyone! Seeing how a little organization would help streamline the proposal process, I have developed one.

The System

First we have a request, which is used as a foundation for making proposals.

 Request = { Title, Authors, Criteria, Proposals }

Title - what we are requesting proposals for.
Authors - the people who made the request.
Criteria - the constraints that all proposals must satisfy to be considered for acceptance.
Proposals - the list of proposals that people make to fullfill the request.

 Proposals = list of Proposal

Now lets define a proposal.

 Proposal = { Title, Authors, Description, Evaluation, Indefinitives, Variations }

Title - a descriptive, unique name for the proposal
Authors - those who contributed to the proposal
Description - a full description of the proposal, including its implications
Evalutation - how/if the proposal meets the requirements of its parent request.
Indefinitives - a list of requests, each request being an incomplete or open to suggestion part of the proposal
Variations - a list of proposals that represent variations or derivitives of the proposal, either put forth by different authors, or as the successors to the original proposal.

Go here for a page that uses the request template.