The Army has released the final solicitation for the Marketplace for the Acquisition of Professional Services (MAPS), and the clock is already running. MAPS is a 10-year, Multiple Award Indefinite… Continue reading How to Win Army MAPS Now
This article describes 30 active bids that show government engagement in the past quarter. To be labeled “active,” bids must show government engagement in the past quarter through draft solicitation… Continue reading Use Active Bids to Drive Business Growth Now
Lohfeld Consulting’s Mystic Bids blog highlights forecasted procurements still in development, giving contractors an early look at where the market is heading. In this edition, we focus on 10 major… Continue reading Use Mystic Bids to Forecast Business Growth Now
Few contract vehicles carry the strategic weight of OASIS+. For professional services firms in the GovCon space, it represents long-term access to federal agencies, broad scope flexibility, and significant revenue… Continue reading OASIS+: How to Navigate Complexity with Confidence
If your pipeline does not include Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts or Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs), you may be leaving significant revenue on the table. Our recent analysis of opportunities… Continue reading How to Seize and Win IDIQs and BPAs Now
Self-scoring bids are a common fixture across GovCon Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) requests for proposals (RFPs). Agencies across the federal market require offerors to evaluate and score their own… Continue reading How to Unlock Self-Scoring IDIQ Wins Now
The Facilities Acquisitions for Restoration and Modernization (FARM) III contract is a $900M, full and open competition targeting up to eight prime contractors for work across the Air Force Test… Continue reading Win the Air Force’s $900M FARM III Facilities IDIQ Now
The best capture managers scan agency forecasts long before solicitations reach SAM.gov. While competitors scramble to respond to an RFP they just discovered, a disciplined capture team has already spent… Continue reading Seize the Edge: Agency Forecasts That Win GovCon Bids
Proposal stress is not just an occupational inconvenience. For GovCon companies that depend on a steady flow of wins to grow, high proposal stress is a business risk. When proposal… Continue reading How to Reduce Proposal Stress Now
With the latest draft of the Marketplace for the Acquisition of Professional Services (MAPS) RFP now in hand, the path to one of the Army’s most coveted and significant professional… Continue reading How to Win the Army MAPS Contract Before It Finalizes
Competitive intelligence has always been a cornerstone of winning in GovCon. But as AI tools become embedded in capture and proposal workflows, a critical question emerges: how do you use… Continue reading How to Use AI for Ethical Competitive Intelligence Now
Think about the last contract you lost to an incumbent. At what point did you know you were behind? The honest answer is usually before the customer releases the RFP.… Continue reading How New Offerors Can Outperform Incumbents and Win
Capture Management is changing, and contractors who don’t evolve—those who are capturing too late in the acquisition lifecycle or are not set up to respond quickly—are going to see declines… Continue reading The State of Capture in 2026: What’s Changed Now?
