Bid and proposal professionals often juggle multiple projects with overlapping deadlines. Their jobs involve continuously balancing and reassessing factors like the strategic value of each project, the urgency of a… Continue reading How to Manage Multiple Conflicting Deadlines Now

Introduction As bid and proposal professionals, we continuously aim to enhance our performance to win contracts and business opportunities. Unfortunately, the traditional approach to evaluating our success often relies solely… Continue reading Use Metrics as a Tool to Improve Bid and Proposal-related Performance

Introduction What do you do when you’re handed a 50-page statement of work (SOW) in an RFP but are restricted to just 10 pages for your technical response? It’s a… Continue reading 7 Strategies for Responding When RFP Requirements are Bigger than the Page Count

Introduction While no artificial intelligence (AI) tool can ingest your request for proposal (RFP) requirements and pop out a winning proposal, AI can be your partner in expediting proposal writing… Continue reading Proposal Writing: 21 Strategies for Using AI to Expedite and Improve Proposal Writing

Introduction Measure before you cut, design before you code, and think before you write. All these sayings share a common theme—planning and preparing before acting and using good tools can… Continue reading Use AI to Jumpstart Proposal Content Plans

Requests for proposals (RFPs) are often complex, lengthy, and time-consuming to analyze. However, you must analyze RFPs to understand your client’s needs, expectations, and evaluation criteria. Therefore, consider using AI… Continue reading Tips for Using AI to Analyze RFPs

Introduction With its language understanding capabilities, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) can be invaluable for quickly and accurately extracting RFP requirements. You can also instruct AI to align the requirement with… Continue reading Maximize Efficiency: Extract RFP Requirements with GenAI Commands

Introduction As bid and proposal professionals, we navigate the high-stakes world of bid/no bid decisions, knowing that these choices can lead us to valuable contracts or misallocate hard-earned bid and… Continue reading 12 Ideas for Using AI to Power Bid/No Bid Decisions During Capture

Introduction Lohfeld Consulting has always advised companies’ proposal reviewers to evaluate proposals like government evaluators. We urge proposal managers to create score sheets using the evaluation criteria defined in requests… Continue reading Use AI to Power 7 Quality Measures for Proposal Reviews

Introduction As bid and proposal professionals, we know that being well-informed is crucial for winning contracts. However, finding and processing relevant information can be time-consuming and challenging. We can use… Continue reading Use AI to Drive Information Collection for Bids and Proposals