ARTS adds to standard RFP library

Washington, D.C. - The Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS), a division of the National Retail Federation (NRF), has announced two major additions to the ARTS Standard Request for Proposals (RFP) library on selecting payments solutions and video analytics solutions. These standardized RFPs will help retail companies research software applications ahead of time.



Containing more than 600 features, the payment solutions RFP covers topics such as payment architecture, reconciliation, security, devices, fraud management and reporting. Ian Auerbach, industry principal of store solutions at Demandware chaired the work group for the payment solutions RFP. The work team also received input from executives with Boscov’s, Boston Consulting Group, Carter’s, Costco, Desjardins, IBM, John Lewis Partnership, Lexmark, NCR, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SAP, Shell, Tesco, Verifone and Whole Foods.



The RFP standard for video analytics builds on the concepts developed in the Video Analytics Schema and covers topics such as equipment, system features, user interface and analytics for applications like traffic pattern analysis, loss prevention analytics and facial recognition. Hedgie Bartol, retail business development manager at Axis Communications, served as chair of the work group. Additionally, the Video Analytics RFP work team received input from executives with Costco, Emotient, Expient, Kroger, Lexmark, Manthan Systems, Prism Skylabs, Target and WeDo Technologies.