Creating Winning Proposals for Government Contractors
Get access to proposal development experts and end-to-end support teams for highly competitive procurements.
Utilize the critical time between the decision to pursue and proposal submission to sharpen your competitive edge.
Discover how the government evaluates proposals and how our methodology focuses every proposal on your company’s strengths.
Increase your teams’ efficiency and effectiveness with classes taught by the same experts actively managing client capture and proposal efforts.
Create presentations that go beyond compliance and ensure your message is delivered effectively and robustly.
Lohfeld Consulting Group is a capture and proposal consulting firm that helps government contractors win government contracts. Since 2003, our consultants have supported more than 550 proposals worth over $135 billion for our top 20 clients alone, using Strength-Based Winning® — a methodology built around how federal evaluators actually score. We provide capture management, proposal management and writing, proposal reviews, orals coaching, graphics and desktop publishing, support for GWACs and IDIQs, and APMP-certified training to companies bidding across defense, civilian, and intelligence agencies.
Won in over 550 contract
proposals for just
our top 20 clients
Companies supported
with our expertise
and training
We’ve provided
Strength-Based Winning®
services since 2003
“The Lohfeld team has been a shining example of how to get things done. In fact, they produced an 800% increase in our conversions and reduced the cost/conversion by 80.3%.”
—Defense and Aerospace Contractor
Twelve forecast bids worth $48B are headed for solicitation in 2027 and 2028. Ten of them don’t have solicitation numbers yet; that’s your cue to act. NASA’s $30B Jet Propulsion… Continue reading Use Forecast Bids to Win $48B in 2027 and 2028 Contracts
Active bids this month bring a dense run of requests for information (RFIs) and industry days through October. The Department of Energy’s $3.7B Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education… Continue reading Use Active Bids to Drive $113B in Business Growth Now
AI learning is accelerating, and the gap between teams building systematic capability and those experimenting in isolation is widening. Lohfeld Consulting surveyed capture and proposal professionals to understand how teams… Continue reading How to Build an AI Learning Strategy for GovCon Proposal Teams
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
Your AI prompts and agents are only as good as their last update. At APMP’s Winning AI: Advanced conference on October 7 and 8, presenters showed bid and proposal teams… Continue reading How to Tame AI Prompt and Agent Sprawl
The real return on investment from AI in bids and proposals is no longer just hype. Lohfeld Consulting first surveyed the GovCon community on this question in 2024, when AI… Continue reading The Real ROI of AI in Proposals
How you measure AI tool effectiveness reveals more about your proposal operation than the AI tool itself. Lohfeld Consulting polled capture and proposal professionals to find out what they track… Continue reading How Proposal Professionals Measure AI Tool Effectiveness
Proposal readiness is a decision, not a scramble, and the best time to make it is at the start of fiscal year 2027 (FY27). The new fiscal year will reward… Continue reading Your FY27 Proposal Readiness Checklist
Date: October 20-22, 2026 (3-day class)
Time: 12:00-4:30 pm EDT
Location: Online, LIVE, Instructor-Led
Date: October 23, 2026
Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm EST
Location: Online, LIVE, Instructor-Led
Date: NOVEMBER 3-5, 2026 (3-day class)
Time: 12:00-4:00 pm EST
Location: Online, LIVE, Instructor-Led
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