It’s a dark and stormy Halloween night in the world of government proposals. The clock ticks toward a midnight deadline, and the Capture and Proposal Managers stare at the half-finished… Continue reading How to Avoid a Proposal Halloween Nightmare

Imagine being tasked with transforming your team into an unstoppable proposal powerhouse. Where would you start? This question was posed to the bid and proposal community on LinkedIn, and the… Continue reading Secrets to Building a Proposal Powerhouse

Picture this: You’ve invested weeks of hard work and resources into crafting a proposal, only to watch it unravel during the Pink Team review. The disappointment is gut-wrenching. But why… Continue reading Pink Team Perfection: How to Avoid Common Mistakes and Win

Unsuccessful proposal reviews are a massive headache for capture and proposal managers because they waste valuable time, diminish team morale, and reduce the likelihood of winning contracts. Yet, even the… Continue reading Why Proposal Reviews Fail and How to Fix Them

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 enhancing proposal writing. In… Continue reading 100 Tips for Improving Proposal Writing Using Generative AI

Venturing into the challenging yet rewarding realm of government contracting requires more than ambition; it demands meticulous planning, unwavering dedication, and strategic resource allocation. Crafting government proposals necessitates significant investment… Continue reading Advice for New Companies Looking to Create Winning Government Proposals

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 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 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

UPDATED – August 17, 2023 GSA released Amendment 0002 to the OASIS+ solicitations. We’ve updated our FREE OASIS+ Proposal Management Tool and you can download the updated tracker now (CLICK… Continue reading OASIS+ Proposal Management Tool Update – FREE