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Gaining a Competitive Edge with Proposal Consulting

During the high-stakes competition of competitive bidding, it’s not sufficient to just be a good product or service. Everything depends on the characteristics and quality of the behaviours, as well as their fidelity and persuasiveness. This is where targeted proposal consulting rocks. These expert services arm organisations with strategic approaches and disciplined methodologies to manoeuvre through complex Requests for Proposal (RFP) processes as well as increase their win rates. The need for proposal consulting in U.S. is more important than in most other countries because the contracts here are larger, require much longer response times with lots of bureaucracy on both ends, and many of these massive projects are difficult to get your foot in the door to even have a conversation about before you decide which bid consultant or solution you want to present. Consultants can provide an unbiased, third-party point of view, revealing weaknesses in their existing approach that internal te...

Mastering Compliance: The Key to Winning Federal Government Proposals

Government Contract In The US, Canada And Around The World Winning a contract in US or Canadian government federal government proposals can be as important a moment for your business as when you began. The process has a very strong sense of compliance and authority, which is unlike commercial tenders. So a federal proposal is more than just a sales pitch; it is a legal document that must closely follow the rules and conditions described in the solicitation, which usually comes in the form of an official Request for Proposal (RFP). A small error in font size, a missing certification, or a one-minute late submission, and often the technical solution will be disqualified. The multiple layers of actions involved in these bids mean that a tailored strategy is needed. It all begins with a detailed reading of the RFP, which sometimes requires an in-depth line-by-line analysis and a comprehensive compliance matrix that contains checkmarks tracking requirements in Sections L (Instructions to ...