RFP Template
Connected Asset Identification & OT/ICS Asset Visibility RFP Template
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Industrial environments are becoming more connected, more complex, and harder to inventory with confidence. Legacy control systems, IIoT devices, engineering workstations, and IT-integrated OT networks all create visibility gaps that can hide unmanaged assets, undocumented communications, outdated firmware, and compliance risk. This RFP template is designed to help organizations evaluate connected asset identification and OT/ICS asset visibility solutions with a structured, OT-safe approach.
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Why This RFP Template Matters
A reliable OT asset inventory is the foundation of industrial cybersecurity. Without it, organizations struggle to identify shadow OT, map communication flows, validate firmware versions, and demonstrate compliance with frameworks such as IEC 62443, NIST SP 800-82, and sector-specific requirements. This template helps you ask the right questions before selecting a vendor, so you can choose a solution that provides continuous visibility without disrupting operations.
It is especially useful if your team needs to evaluate whether a platform can:
Discover OT assets passively and agentlessly
Classify PLCs, HMIs, RTUs, SCADA systems, historians, and IIoT devices
Enrich asset data with firmware, model, protocol, and zone information
Map communication flows and dependencies across network zones
Detect new devices, configuration drift, and unauthorized communications
Support reporting for risk, compliance, and incident response workflows
What’s Included in the RFP Template
This document gives your procurement and OT security teams a complete framework for vendor evaluation. It includes sections for organization background, project goals, environment overview, scope of work, functional requirements, technical requirements, integrations, reporting, deployment, vendor qualifications, support, pricing, and response instructions. It also includes appendices for glossary terms, asset inventory templates, scorecards, site questionnaires, compliance mapping, and network diagram references.
The template is built to help you evaluate vendors across the areas that matter most:
Passive Asset Discovery and Safety
Connected Asset Identification
Communication and Dependency Mapping
Change Detection and Alerting
Reporting, Compliance, and Audit Evidence
How This Template Helps Your Organization
Using a structured RFP improves the quality of vendor responses and helps you evaluate solutions more objectively. This template is designed to support:
Complete, continuous, and accurate asset visibility
OT-safe passive discovery
Inventory normalization and multi-site visibility
Compliance evidence generation
Pilot deployment planning and success criteria
Role-specific training and documentation requirements
Support and SLA evaluation for production environments
Why Choose Shieldworkz?
Shieldworkz helps organizations strengthen OT cybersecurity with practical, operations-first guidance. This RFP template reflects the kind of detail industrial teams need when they evaluate visibility and asset-identification solutions, from framework alignment and reporting to deployment architecture, HA, access control, data retention, and support expectations.
By downloading this resource, you can:
Shorten the time needed to build an OT RFP from scratch
Ask deeper, more relevant vendor questions
Compare proposals more consistently
Reduce operational risk during evaluation and deployment
Improve alignment between security, engineering, procurement, and compliance teams
Download the Connected Asset Identification RFP Template
Get the Connected Asset Identification & OT/ICS Asset Visibility Request for Proposal (RFP) template. Book a free demo with Shieldworkz experts to see how we help organizations improve OT asset visibility, industrial cybersecurity, and operational resilience.
Book a free demo with our experts to see how we help organizations improve OT asset visibility, industrial cybersecurity, and operational resilience.
