Bid and Proposal Boot Camp – Prepare your team to win business

In this interactive Bid and Proposal Boot Camp – Prepare your team to win business class, learn how to help win your recompetes, grow business organically, support growth on new contracts, conduct orals and technical demonstrations for customers, and report technical and operational status.

Use the new skills learned to help retain and grow your business and multiply the capabilities of your business development teams.

Class discussions and group exercises will help prepare technical teams to benefit from other Lohfeld Consulting classes including Strength-Based Winning^® for Federal Contractors and Modern Proposal Writing for Federal Contractors.

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What you will learn:

In this Bid and Proposal Boot Camp, you’ll learn:

• How to evaluate your readiness to grow business
• How to win your recompete
• How to grow business organically
• How to help your company win new business
• How to support technical demonstrations, oral proposals, and
  problem/coding challenges
• How to effectively report technical and operational status

Who should attend?

This class is designed for staff who support federal projects on a full-time basis including project and program managers, business analysts, and any type of technical professional. (Eligible for 10 APMP CEUs)

Bid and Proposal Boot Camp Agenda (three modules over 3 days)

Module 1 – Preparing to grow business (Approximately 4 hours)

• Evaluate your readiness to grow business
• Evaluate your position with the customer
• Make the most of your time
• Collect and manage Information to Win (ITW)
• Strategize and determine how you will win
• Conclusions
• Q&A

Module 2 – Winning recompetes using Strength-Based Techniques (Approximately 4 hours)

• Formulate a Strength-Based Solution
• Use customer knowledge to improve your solution
• Build a Strength-Based introduction, understanding, and solution
• Learn how technical teams can support complex proposals
• Conclusions
• Q&A

Module 3 – Growing organic and new business using Strength-Based Techniques (Approximately 4 hours)

• Grow business organically
• Support business growth on new contracts
• Support customer presentations, orals, and demos
• Report technical and operational status effectively
• Apply lessons learned
• Conclusions
• Q&A

Bid and Proposal Boot Camp Instructor

Brenda Crist, Vice President, CPP APMP Fellow

Brenda Crist teaches our Modern Proposal Writing for Federal Contractors class, Bid and Proposal Boot Camp – Prepare your team to win business, and APMP Foundation Level Certification Preparation classes. Brenda Crist has more than 30 years of experience providing capture, proposal, and program management support for IT companies serving the federal market. She is currently a Vice President at Lohfeld Consulting Group. Prior to becoming a full-time proposal professional, Brenda served as a Group Manager for OAO Corporation and Project Manager for Harris Corporation. She has provided onsite system, application, and network management solutions for civilian and military clients.

Brenda holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from American University. She is certified at the Professional Level from the Association of Proposal Management Proposals (APMP) and has delivered APMP certification training to hundreds of students since 2011. Brenda is an APMP Fellow and former Chapter Chairperson
of the Year.

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