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title: "Resources"
source: 18F Guides
source_url: https://github.com/18F/guides
licence: CC0-1.0
domain: engineering
subdomain: 18f-guides
date_added: 2026-04-25
---

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        <h4 class="usa-card__heading">Market research</h4>
      
      
        <p>Conduct effective market surveillance and investigation while avoiding ethical issues.</p>
      
      
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        <h4 class="usa-card__heading">Verbal interview questions</h4>
      
      
        <p>Questions to help clarify a vendor’s proposed technical approach during verbal interviews.</p>
      
      
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        <h4 class="usa-card__heading">Evaluating bids</h4>
      
      
        <p>Criteria for assessing a vendor’s proposal for building custom software.</p>
      
      
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        <h4 class="usa-card__heading">Kick-off agenda</h4>
      
      
        <p>Build a healthy relationship with a vendor development team with a productive kick-off week.</p>
      
      
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        <h4 class="usa-card__heading">Open source security</h4>
      
      
        <p>Keep data, static assets, secrets, and code safe in an open source project.</p>
      
      
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        <h4 class="usa-card__heading">Quality indicators plan</h4>
      
      
        <p>18F’s minimum set of quality indicators for a custom software project.</p>
      
      
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