Not only this should be discussed on the scope of a future program (not this specific amendment), but I think it’s fundamentally a different funding philosophy in my opinion. Who would be making these RFPs and deciding them? Would it be something where the DAO ranks some general ideas and then Metagov writes it to spec and then companies compete for the lowest bid? What happens if the market moves in the mean time and what made sense one moment doesn’t make sense the other? What if a company has a very bright idea to pivot that project into something better but outside the spec? What if the people who build it lack the refinement of those who had the initial idea in the first place, and instead of trying to build the best tool they just focus on delivering on their contract?
That’s why I’d rather trust teams. They put forth budgets of stuff they want to work on and they are loosely bound to it, but most importantly what we are saying is not “this thing needs to be built and I think this person will do it for cheap” but rather “I trust this team to continuously focus on finding innovative solutions for these problems and any new ones that might occur in the future”.