Subcontracting Opportunities

1. Your company’s Web site address:

2. Detailed description of your company's service(s), including when company was formed.

3. Explain why your company should be considered as a potential business partner with Verizon. What Verizon services will benefit from this partnership?

4. How will you ensure that this will be successful? What steps will you take to make this successful? What supports your position?

5. Provide a copy of your company’s most recent annual report (including management’s assessment on the future of the company). Electronic version preferred if available.

6. Provide audited financial statements for the past three years (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Shares Outstanding, EPS, etc.), with an explanation of significant changes in large items that change from year to year by 20% or more (positive or negative changes). Do not provide ‘Pro Forma’ filings.

8. Vendor Management Information should include but is not limited to:

Total number of employees

Number of employees in the company’s sales organization

Depending on the industry – provide the number of centers (If the service/product offered utilizes operations centers, Verizon will need to know how many there are, location(s), and how many employees per operations center)

Last three (3) years customer base

Explain how you plan to manage the increased business that Verizon will bring you (funding, increase force, etc.)?

9. Independent analysis of company service(s) – Provide recent {within the last 6 months} analyses from at least two separate financial institutions (if privately held/owned, this may not be available; however, other testimonials {such as news releases, trade journal articles, and/or research analyst reports} can be a possible substitute).

10. Proof of market need for company service(s) – what is the target market and what seems to be the demand (provide customer or industry names as an example of the target). What was the vendor’s source for information?

11. Are you considered a leader or at least in the top three in your industry? If not, what is your status within the industry? What is your source?

12. Three (3) business customer references – provide written testimony from customers. (Testimony will be on the customer’s letterhead.)

13. A description of your major competitors and their threat to you.

14. D & B company analysis for most recent year (preferable, but not required if analyst reports are provided and management’s assessment {as part of #3 above} is included).