The Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary

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project specifications form

... a document containing the functional requirements for carrying out an enterprise development project; a document containing selection criteria for location work.

Typically a PSF is organized for distribution to resource and service providers during the enterprise development and economic development processes (see the .network definition of enterprise and economic development). Distribution is for purposes of soliciting responses such as proposals for working relationships or, in the case of a site selection project, a location package. A PSF may be covered by a project profile containing information to motivate respondents to its distribution—see A Project Begins with a Plan.

A PSF may take the form of a questionnaire used, say, by a location data supplier to gather information from a prospect. They may be found, for example, at some economic development websites as e-forms (electronic forms) for users to make paperless responses. Questions on site selection prospect questionnaires, paper or otherwise, are most often tied to data elements that area and local development representatives use when organizing and publishing location profiles. See the definition of location data elements for a link to a a more exhaustive list of categories of information that site selectors and their resource providers exchange or see the definition of site selection standards.

In the event that you are an enterprise developer reading this and you want to learn more about organizing a PSF for site selection, perhaps having a checklist of items of wants and needs that should be covered as you proceed, take a look at a resource paper reprint in the .network resource archive. The paper was written by a site selection consultant and addresses essentials for success in searching for a location. Additional resources are available in the Enterprise and Economic Development Library/Site Selection section.

definition of project specifications form / what is a psf / what is a prospect questionnaire

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