Risk analysis in project early phase taking into account the product lifecycle: Towards a generic risk typology for bidding process

During the project early phase, considering a bidding process (BP), a client makes a request for a work or service to potential providers and then he chooses, by analyzing the responses, the one that will be accepted. From the bidder point of view, there are several risks when responding because he must develop a response based on a future development. Different in nature, these risks can be grouped into different categories. We propose a risk typology throughout the product lifecycle on which we rely to assist the bidder during BP via a methodology for decision support based on the experience acquired during past projects in order to detect, report and minimize the risks in current BP.