As BD professionals, we care about ALL information assets of our organizations. More than any other group, we appreciate the potential value, from competitive differentiation to reusable content to proof… Continue reading Improve Win Rates through Asset Integration and Content Management

Proposal professionals are some of the hardest working people in any company. Despite their hard work, they may face a losing streak from time to time. These losses can erode… Continue reading How to Beat a Losing Streak

General Services Administration (GSA) schedules are the largest and most widely used acquisition vehicles in Government. Experience shows many companies do not make the most of their schedules for many… Continue reading Five Tips to Make the Most of the Your GSA Schedules

After several months in a holding pattern due to U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) solicitation protest B-408685.18, on April 17, the General Services Administration (GSA) issued an update to the… Continue reading Opportunity Alert: A Flurry of OASIS On-Ramps

Reprinted with permission from APMP-NCA eZine We Want to Change Most organizations and individuals agree that they could do better. As a capture and proposal expert, I work with dozens… Continue reading Nudging Toward Change

Click here to listen to Mark’s interview On March 4, 2019, Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower interviewed Bob Lohfeld, founder and CEO of Lohfeld Consulting Group on issues regarding the… Continue reading Keys to creating winning proposals | Amtower Off Center

One of the best ways to improve your writing is to use active verbs instead of nominalizations. What is a nominalization, anyway? A nominalization is a verb converted into a… Continue reading Improve your Writing Series – Avoid Nominalizations in your Proposals

There’s an old adage: Saying it is one thing, but proving it is another. In the world of GSA OASIS On-Ramps, this adage is very fitting. GSA has announced that… Continue reading Beware the OASIS On-Ramp. It isn’t as easy as it looks

Reprinted with permission from APMP-NCA eZine. Assessing the quality of a capture effort is a difficult task. Any assessment is simply a snapshot in time; your capture could get better…… Continue reading How Ready is Your Capture?

We talk about it in our proposals. We know it works. Agile practitioners take it seriously and are diligent about its use. What is it? It’s the idea of using… Continue reading Applying an Agile Tool to Make Your Proposal Processes Better