IDIQ Program Management involves the management of the end-to-end process of Winning and Delivering business from an IDIQ contract, and, the management of the overall program. There are two main types of situations, Multi-Award Contracts (MACs) where you compete with other Prime Contract awardees to win Task Orders, and, Single-Award Contracts (SACs) where you do […]
Finally, there is an off-the-shelf software solution that is purpose-built to address the needs of Program Management for Government Contractors. R3 Business Solutions has released Program Management for GovCon on SharePoint 2013. This off-the-shelf solution addresses two sets of needs for Program Management. First, it provides a core set of program management capabilities that are […]
We recently completed an implementation of R3 WinCenter for an 800 person GovCon customer. The system that they ended up with was dramatically different than the out-of-the-box WinCenter solution. I’ll walk through a few elements of this implementation. It is a good example of how the flexibility of WinCenter is enabling organizations to realize the benefits of an […]
Lohfeld WinCenter is an integrated capture and proposal management system for Government Contractors. It brings both capture and proposal work together into a single business development process. The result is a more efficient and effective way to win business. But, what if you are using SharePoint for Proposal Management and you don’t want to disrupt […]
Many Federal Government Contractors are taking advantage of the opportunity to win business through Task Orders as a Prime contractor on IDIQs and GWACs. However, this way of winning business can be very challenging to manage. The CorasWorks IDIQ Task Order Management solution provided by R3 Business Solutions gives you a comprehensive system to manage […]
In October, we released Version 3.1 of WinCenter on SharePoint 2013. This new version of the WinCenter Capture and Proposal Management solution from Lohfeld Consulting Group was the first of its kind to take advantage of SharePoint 2013. The robust feature set and extensive configurability of the version 3.1 has been very successful for our […]
Over the last couple of months there has been a robust discussion amongst GovCon proposal management practioners about applying Agile project methodologies to proposal management. This topic was presented by Maryann Lesnick, Principal Consultant of Lohfeld Consulting at the APMP DC Chapter meeting in November. You can download her presentation here. Her presentation is a […]
Recently we wrote an article about different options to get the proposal work done when responding to Task Orders. When you work on Task Orders you need help from all corners of the organization. This cross-organizational work and coordination can be chaotic and cause problems. Over the last few weeks we’ve released three add-on solutions, […]
R3 provides a growing portfolio of business solutions for GovCon that can be added to a SharePoint environment. However, many GovCon organizations have existing SharePoint sites or systems of sites that they just want to incrementally enhance to improve their way of working. Common examples are when they are using SharePoint for proposal management or […]
Many Government Contractors (GovCon) are leveraging Microsoft SharePoint for work. Most use just the basic capabilities for document management and collaboration. Increasingly, GovCon organizations are using it for business development, opportunity and capture management, proposal management, program management, project management and many supporting processes. The problem is that SharePoint is by design a distributed work […]