After submitting your proposal, an exclusion from the competitive range determination letter from the agency creates significant amounts of stress and disappointment. Making sure that your bid is compliant and presents a competitive edge is essential to stand a chance of winning. What is the Competitive Range Determination? The competitive range determination… Read more »
The purpose of the proposal evaluation component of your government RFP is to allow the agency to evaluate fairly your proposal based upon stated solicitation requirements. The second most important reason is to make sure that taxpayers’ money is spent wisely. Procurement law requires that the agency makes sure that… Read more »
What is The Purpose of Bid Proposal Evaluation Criteria? The purpose of the government’s proposal evaluation criteria is to give the agency’s evaluation team a way to determine which company has submitted a response to a solicitation that best meets the Government’s stated needs. Your contract evaluation criteria also results… Read more »
Federal contracting agencies typically start the government proposal writing process by having the end user involved in procurement planning. Here, each end user qualifies and quantifies their individual needs. Mission essential requirements come first. If there is a budget for the requirements, the procurement process moves along. Depending on many procurement requirements,… Read more »
Unduly restrictive solicitation under the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 can make your government proposal writing efforts more difficult if you don’t understand your rights to protest the Agency’s solicitation. Many government contractors may choose to simply respond to the request for proposal as is without considering whether it is too restrictive…. Read more »
Lack of Crucial Technical Proposal Writing Information Can Cost You the Contract Technical proposals that introduce involvement or parent companies will be heavily scrutinized by government contracting agencies. Even when you are proposing larger subcontractors you still have to meet certain proposal inclusions to get a favorable rating. There are… Read more »
Avoid Costly Mistakes With the Technical Proposal Writing Nuances in Government Contracts When you engage in technical proposal writing for federal bids, one of the first things to consider is that federal procurement law requires that an agency’s evaluation of proposals must show a reasonable assessment of contractors’ ability to successfully perform the contract requirements…. Read more »
Can the agency use an undisclosed independent government cost estimate (IGCE FAR) to evaluate your proposal? Take a more meaningful approach hen challenging the government contract price estimations and source selection methods. In previous GAO bid protest rulings, it has made it clear that an agency must give enough information… Read more »
Securing a qualified bid proposal writer when responding to Federal Government RFPs can be a great investment if they understand the procurement process and what it takes to actually win. As many small to medium-sized companies look into securing government contracts, they do so without the benefit of a capture management or… Read more »
When the federal government advertises its Request for Proposal (RFP), it then looks for competitive responses. Anything short of a compliant and persuasive response will not be considered for an award. Many contractors have not mastered the art of correctly responding to a Government Request for Proposal. Therefore, they continue… Read more »