My point: will I, with an RFP (specifically stating requirements for
PHP/MySQL/Apache) for website development work, get responses from major dev
houses - not just coders in their basements?
Depends on what you consider major dev houses. Razorfish? Or, I don't know, something like my company, which manages to do a million bucks a year with 6 people. My point being, there's a lot in-between "a major dev house" and "coders in their basement".
I do think it's a safe bet that if you send your RFP to a well-researced set of companies, and you specificially state your requirements, that people will indeed quote you on that. It's when someone _doesn't_ specifically state their requirements that it becomes a free for all, at which time said design house should do something like this: talk to client, see just what it is that isn't being stated in the RFP by way of requirements, see if they're really open to anything, then find best solution for said client, quote, do work, live happily ever after.
For example, client doesn't say what database they want to use, design house usually uses MySQL for all the reasons that people usually use MySQL, talks to client, finds out that hey, they're Larry Ellison's neighbor and happen to have a copy of oracle laying around to use, design house _should_ say "great! let's use that". And so on.
But to your point, I believe your answer is yes.
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