proposal approach

An insufficiently detailed approach – common GAO complaint

Lohfeld Consulting

Did you know that a common complaint found in the Accountability Office (GAO) Protest Docket is that offerors do not sufficiently describe their approach? When an approach is not adequately detailed, evaluators give it a lesser grade or assign it a weakness. In close competitions, an inferior grade can distinguish between a contract award and an unsuccessful protest. Therefore, we built the Detailed Approach Checklist below to address these issues and organized them around the classic seven questions (who, what, when, where, why, and how).

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