GovWin IQ Auto-Import for R3 WinCenter

With the R3 GovWin IQ Auto-Import feature, opportunities from GovWin IQ will be automatically imported into R3 WinCenter. It brings in all of the GovWin IQ data and documents. It then updates information in WinCenter with changes in GovWin IQ. No more manual entry. No errors. No hassle. It’s automatic. How it Works Step 1: […]

esignature

Route R3 documents for eSignature using Adobe Sign

Every day our Federal Government Contractors route documents to other parties for signature and for filling out information. One common need is signing NDAs and Teaming Agreements with partners/subcontractors. Typically, this is done manually using email. eSignature solutions have been around for more than 10 years but they still are not widely adopted. DocuSign is […]

Top 5 Unique Needs of GovCon Contract Management

Contract Management is a core business activity of Federal Government Contractors. Everything revolves around it. However, when you survey the GovCon market, less than half of GovCon organizations are using formal contract management systems to manage their contract information and the work. Most GovCon organizations get by doing things “manually” using information worker tools like Excel […]

The Easy Way to Enhance SharePoint to manage Proposal Development work

Many GovCon organizations use SharePoint for proposals. Generally, they use SharePoint to store documents and manage documents along with supporting information related to proposals. This is a good start. In addition, SharePoint has the ability to organize information by “sites”. A site becomes a way to secure documents and information as a group. So, separate […]

Dfferent Ways

WinCenter customers driving C&P success in different ways

By design, most software vendors assume that their customers will use their software in the same way. This is not the case when it comes to GovCon capture and proposal (“C&P”) management. There are some obvious reasons for this. Organizations are at different phases of their lifecycle, they have different approaches, processes and technology, and, […]

Opportunity Assessment - Getting Focus

Using KPI’s for GovCon Opportunity Progress Assessment

GovCon organizations constantly assess the opportunities in their portfolio throughout their life-cycle. They need to perform routine opportunity assessments to evaluate the progress over time. They also need to see where opportunities are across the full portfolio at any point in time. However, these assessments often are not consistent and it is challenging to get […]

Noise of unproductive proposal development work

The cost of Unproductive, Error-Prone “Noise” Surrounding Writer and Reviewer Assignments

In a recent article we described the “noise” problem of proposal development (see Improve RFP Proposal Development Productivity by eliminating the “Noise” of Work). This “noise” is all of the administrative activity and manual work in support of the real work that matters. It is distracting, unproductive, and provides lots of room for errors and […]