contract and program management

Growing GovCon Firm Leverages R3 to Operationalize Contract & Program Management

Winning contracts is the start. Successful small business Federal Government Contractors follow growth of contract wins with improvements in how they manage their post-award operations of contract management and program management. This article describes the situation of one growing GovCon firm and why they choose R3 solutions to operationalize their contract and program management work. […]

1,000-strong Defense Contractor Switches to WinCenter to Drive Proposal Operations

This 1,000 person, $250 million revenue defense contractor provides advanced scientific and technical services. They had been using document management systems to support their proposal operations. It was becoming a limitation. They wanted to jump into a modern proposal system that would allow them to scale by improving effectiveness and increasing productivity. So, they switched […]

Shipley business development process model

6 Key Elements of GovCon BD Process Model Embedded in WinCenter

The process of winning Federal Government business via RFPs is very well understood. There is an industry standard GovCon Business Development process model that was first codified by Shipley Associates in the late 1990’s and became part of the curriculum of the APMP (Association of Proposal Management Professionals). It has since evolved and been widely […]

Software Work of Program Management

Managing the “Soft Work” of GovCon Program Management

R3’s Program Management for GovCon solution is designed to manage the “Soft Work” of Program Management. The soft work includes what is needed to provide programmatic management of your programs/task orders/contracts across a portfolio.  And, it covers the work to manage the information, activity and interactions for specific programs. If you look out in the market […]

R3 Digital Workplace Contract Management Zen

Manufacturer Transforms Contract Management from Paper to Digital Workplace

What a difference, like night and day… A 500-person manufacturer of tactical lighting and firearm accessory equipment moved its entire Federal and Commercial contract management operations from paper and manual into a streamlined, collaborative digital workplace based upon R3 Contract Management. It was a big move. It was a great success. But, it was probably […]

Government contract record view – One view of contract data, documents and related work.

Government contracts are core to the business of Federal Government Contractors. Each contract changes throughout its lifecycle. And, the “contract” is a whole lot more than just one document. It is the information and the work. It is data and documents and activity information. Most organizations have this information all over. They have contract data […]

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 […]