There is a critical moment in the lifecycle of Federal Government Contractors when they emerge from being a small business and must now compete in full and open competition. It is a challenge. R3 helps graduating GovCon firms get competitive by using software to leverage their people and optimize their way of working. This article […]
GovCon organizations graduating from the 8(a) small business program are doing so because they are successful. However, to continue to be successful in the world of open competition requires changes to their organization and their way of working. They need to get better organized for success. One of our recent customers was in exactly this […]
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 […]
Business development by Federal Government Contractors is a big investment, is complex and entails a lot of skilled work. The good news is that the process of winning Federal Government business via RFPs is very well understood and supported. There is an industry standard GovCon Business Development Lifecycle (GovCon BDL). Beginning in the late 1990’s […]
There is a great deal of talk in the GovCon industry these days about multi-award contracts (MACs). Why? Because the end of 2015 and all of 2016 (calendar year) are absolutely huge for the release of major GWAC and IDIQ contracts. 2016 is the one year that matters the most in the last 8. It […]
Over the last couple of months there has been a robust discussion amongst GovCon proposal management practioners about applying Agile project methodologies to proposal management. This topic was presented by Maryann Lesnick, Principal Consultant of Lohfeld Consulting at the APMP DC Chapter meeting in November. You can download her presentation here. Her presentation is a […]
In my first post, I provided an intro to R3 and our focus on business solutions for Federal Government Contractors. In this post, I’ll drill down a bit deeper to talk about our solution categories and specific business solutions. Our business solutions serve what we call “the soft center of the GovCon workplace”. They are […]
Last week, Tom Gorman of Lohfeld Consulting Group did an APMP sponsored webcast titled How Integrated Capture and Proposal Solution Software Can Help You Win BEFORE the RFP Release. In it he discussed industry best practices and showed how they can be embedded in software to drive organizations to win more business. The software solution […]
APMP had their annual 2014 conference in early June. In the article, WinCenter v3.0 Launched at APMP 2014 and Hits on Best Practice Shifts, William Rogers talked about the increased emphasis on Capture Management at the conference. At R3, we are increasingly seeing the impact of this. Lohfeld WinCenter is the solution that we implement […]
At the May 2014 APMP conference in Chicago this week, the Lohfeld Consulting Group introduced version 3.0 of WinCenter, their solution for integrated Capture and Proposal Management. WinCenter is a purpose-built solution for Federal Government Contractors that embeds the deep industry practioners knowledge of Lohfeld Consulting Group via the best-of-breed work management technology of CorasWorks […]