Buy Better · A procurement workshop
A working session for the public agencies and fleet operators who write and score EV-charging RFPs — built around how reliability is won or lost in the contract, long before the first charger is installed.
Why it matters
A charger is a system of systems — hardware, firmware, networking, payment, data, and the people who keep it running, often owned by different parties. When an RFP specifies the box instead of the system, the network underdelivers and the buyer carries the consequences for years.
Reliability is decided in the RFP, long before the first charger is installed.
The kind of commitments a strong RFP learns to require
Who it's for
This is not training to make you an engineer. It is training to make you a sharper buyer — so you know what to demand, how to read what comes back, and exactly when bringing in expert help will pay for itself.
You don't need to become the expert. You need to recognize when you're being sold a box, and ask for the system instead.
What you learn
Every charging procurement turns on the same five areas. We walk each one, then show how a real, anonymized municipal RFP turns it into language a vendor can be held to.
Sites, power, intended use, and expected demand — the conditions the vendor actually has to design for.
Power, connectors, durability, and serviceability — with open standards in place of quiet lock-in.
Who owns the data, how you get it, and whether you can manage the network you paid for.
How failures are classified, reported, and surfaced — so “available” actually means working.
Maintenance models, response times, spare parts, and escalation — settled before the warranty lapses.
Cybersecurity, firmware, and evaluation design thread through every area — and decide whether price competes first or last.
The method
It's a simple test you can run on any clause in your own RFP. A requirement that does only the first is decoration — and most weak procurements stop there.
Name the term precisely — uptime, plug-in success, OCPP — so it can't be argued away later.
Set the outcome, the target, and the remedy, each tied to how it will actually be measured.
Make the bidder show how — a compliance matrix, a proposed formula, named gaps — not just say yes.
Define, demand, prove. You'll leave able to spot which clauses in your next RFP do all three — and which ones a vendor can walk right through.
Two ways to take it
Both share the same backbone and the same throughline. The difference is depth — from sharpening your eye to drafting the language yourself.
The preview
A condensed, awareness-building session — ideal as a conference pre-session or a leadership briefing.
You leave with a sharper eye for reliability risk and a checklist to run against your next RFP.
Bring the 3-hour sessionThe full curriculum
The working version — it develops each focus area into procurement-ready RFP language with your own program in front of you.
You leave with a procurement-ready RFP framework, adapted to your sites, fleet, and program.
Plan the full curriculumOutcomes
No certificate, no jargon to memorize — a working buyer's instinct for what good looks like.
Facilitators
The workshop is co-developed and co-facilitated by two independent advisors who sit on the buyer's side of the table.
Founder & Principal Consultant · EVision Solutions
Advises public agencies and fleets on EV-charging deployment strategy, fleet electrification, and charging-product development — with a systems-and-operations lens on what it takes to keep a network running.
Founder & Managing Director · Leke Services
Brings a strategic mobility-and-energy perspective to infrastructure programs, helping buyers connect procurement decisions to the broader transition they are trying to deliver.
Tell us your audience and timing and we'll shape the session — the 3-hour preview for an event, or the full curriculum for a team about to run a real procurement.
Inquiries: grayson.eady@evision.world
· (678) 234-1414
Co-facilitated with Leke Services.