Color Team Reviews are a best practice of proposal organizations managing complex RFP responses. This class of proposal response involves multiple sections and multiple participants. The Color Team Review is a proven way to build review milestones into your proposal management process. Each color review is in itself a process. The key activities involved are: […]
GovCon organizations graduating from the 8(a) small business program are doing so because they are successful. However, to continue to be successful in the world of open competition requires changes to their organization and their way of working. They need to get better organized for success. One of our recent customers was in exactly this […]
The IDIQ/GWAC PMO of this Top 10 GovCon organization has completed their 11th year of operations. During this period, they have handled more than 10,000 Task Orders. Their IDIQ/GWAC PMO has managed more than 70 vehicles and driven many Billions of dollars of revenue while bidding about 1,000 or about 10% of all Task Orders […]
Winning Task Orders on IDIQs is challenging and competitive enough. But, it is extremely challenging and competitive in the construction industry. As a Prime General Contractor you have to work with a vast sea of construction subcontractors, locally based, to deliver bids that are won on lowest price technically acceptable terms. This article will describe […]
By design, most software vendors assume that their customers will use their software in the same way. This is not the case when it comes to GovCon capture and proposal (“C&P”) management. There are some obvious reasons for this. Organizations are at different phases of their lifecycle, they have different approaches, processes and technology, and, […]
Over the last 10 years both Salesforce and SharePoint have grown to dominate their respective markets. Salesforce is the premier CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solution. SharePoint is the premier CMS (Content Management System). Many organizations have adopted both tools. In our work with Federal Government Contractors it is increasingly common for larger customers to use […]
Companies moving into the mid-tier of GovCon are moving into no-mans land. The Government has tracks and advantages for large companies and small businesses. But, mid-tier organizations are on their own. It is a challenging place to compete and operate. In fact, in a recent study it was found that 61% of GovCon companies that […]
In this article, we will review how a customer has leveraged R3 My Work to automate their Bid & Proposal Budget Request process. I provide a brief overview of the customer’s situation and the solution. Then, we provide a 16 minute video that will explain it in detail and show you the process in action. Customer […]
One of the R3 Business Process Applications (BPAs) recently released is Gate Review. This BPA makes it very easy to prepare for and conduct Gate Reviews for capture and proposal management in Federal Government Contractors (GovCon). Decision Gate Reviews are the way that you drive opportunities from Phase to Phase in the GovCon Business Development […]
Microsoft SharePoint is used by a majority of Federal Government Contractors. They primarily use it to manage content (documents and data) and as their Intranet. Yet, SharePoint can be leveraged to add a great deal more business value than is typically realized. For GovCon organizations the value is realized when SharePoint is leveraged for business […]