Nationwide Government Proposal Consulting Services

How can our proposal management consultants increase your chances of success?

Contractors in today’s federal market must realize that bidding on government contracts has become extremely competitive. Proposal writing is a detailed, competitive, and complex process; and source selection authorities are exercising their statutory discretion to use best value trade-off decisions when awarding contracts. Small and large businesses alike are baffled by how to overcome these hurdles as they are continuously failing to get the results they hope for.

Our firm offers a unique skill set to your proposal efforts by offering realistic and substantive proposal consulting services. Our team has compiled critical strategies based upon our actual experience as government proposal evaluators and our daily routine of challenging the agencies in bid protests to GAO.

We offer experienced senior and key government proposal consulting experts to immediately assist you with the management, planning, preparation, and production of competitive winning government proposals. Our turnkey proposal support provides you with the expertise you need without the additional overhead associated with expensive internal man-hours and shortfalls of in-house experience.

The key to our success is:

1. An ability to align your company’s bid strategies with how the government uses its trade-off discretion to award contracts
2. Proven skill in creating proposals that go over and beyond the basic requirements of the solicitation to motivate the government to consider your offer

We excel in three major areas: critical knowledge of federal government contracting; effort that is focused on clarity, conciseness, and effectiveness; and high-level strategy focused on beating the competition.

Our comprehensive proposal writing services include:

 Full copywriting and editing support:

• Light, moderate, and in-depth copyediting of proposal sections and graphics to ensure consistency, clarity, completeness, conciseness, and correctness
• Outlining, storyboarding, section drafting, graphics development, and progress tracking
• Writing proposal sections, resumes, and past performance project descriptions
• Using persuasive writing to obtain the highest possible evaluation score
• Developing proposal forms, templates, and compliance checklists
• Brainstorming and outlining proposal sections for compliance
• Developing and tracking proposal schedule

Graphic support and creation:

• Conceptualizing and rendering graphics, tables, and focus boxes based on the proposal content
• Ensuring that all graphic content is consistent, clear, complete, concise, and correct
• Outline and graphics development
• Ensuring graphics are customer-focused
• Implementing win themes into the graphics

Strategy development and implementation:

• Maintaining a continued focus on substantiating best-value claims to the government
• Provide constructive and practical recommendations on getting proposals to winning quality
• Ensuring content is compliant, responsive, and compelling, and that claims are substantiated
• Overseeing development of the solution, including discriminators, technical and management approaches, cost strategy, and risk management strategy
• Executive strategy development leadership during capture
• Performing competitive analysis
• Key relationships development
• Maintaining capture plans

Proposal Management

Our proposal managers will be responsible for the overall proposal bid and proposal efforts from winning strategies facilitation and coordination to proposal management plans, RFP outlines, kick-off meetings, daily proposal team management; and status meetings, strategy sessions, and in-process reviews. The award criteria for a Government proposal are a critical component of you RFP response. We guide you into the path of compliance and not necessarily what you may want to the solicitation to say.

Proposal Format Reviewers

Our government proposal consultants coordinate and schedule feedback sessions with the proposal manager. Additionally, they review the proposal format for compliance (many federal RFP responses are thrown out for non-compiance). Our reviewers are senior-level subject matter experts who have previously written RFP content for federal agencies. The key to success is a strategic proposal response in the correct format with a style that appeals to each particular agency.

Government Proposal Technical Writers

Our government proposal writers help you to develop winning themes and strategies while also writing compelling text that informs and persuades evaluators in your favor. Our key team members are responsible for proposal clarity, consistency, readability, compliance, and accuracy for each request for proposal. We will work closely with the proposal manager and you technical experts throughout the process. Our proposal writers are experts in federal procurement. Their experience is geared towards crafting proposals that consistently win.

Proposal Volume Managers and Contracting Experts

Our proposal consulting volume managers ensure that each volume of each proposal is in sync with your marketing initiatives and that all RFP requirements have been met and addressed. A plan for meeting short deadlines is part of the initial planning and development stages. Each volume is approached with its own separate requirements, and our team will:

• Address critical topics as outlined in the Request for Proposal statement of work
• Help you demonstrate strong technical and management ability
• Avoid common legal pitfalls found in government proposal writing

Nationwide Services

Watson & Associates’ government proposal staff provides consulting services to contractors in virtually every state. Our federal government Request for Proposal (RFP) services is available regardless of your state. This includes Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington, DC, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

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Contact us

For immediate help with your federal project, contact the government proposal consulting services of Watson & Associates or call us at (866)601-5518.