Task Order proposal responses by Primes on multi-award IDIQ/GWACS are different than managing standard Federal Government RFPs. Companies are learning to drive greater efficiencies by changing their methods and tools. Our customers are cutting costs and the cycle times by 30% and more. This can have a major impact on your Task Order business. In […]
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 […]
It’s a fundamental question in proposal development. Every document or section in a proposal goes through a lifecycle of being worked on by writers, ad hoc reviewers, and formal team reviews. At any time some person or persons “has the ball” and is doing their work. So, we start with a simple question – “Who’s […]
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 […]
The Lohfeld WinCenter brings immediate benefit to organizations by consolidating multiple tools and resources into a single integrated system for GovCon business development. It becomes the system of record for capture and proposal information and activity. However, just because it is an integrated system doesn’t mean that it is monolithic (like most other systems of […]
Many GovCon organizations use SharePoint for proposals. This works well for storing and managing documents and providing security on a proposal by proposal basis. However, it does not make it easier to manage the work of proposals. In fact, it can make the management even harder and less efficient because the proposal sites become silos […]
Many Federal Government Contractors are taking advantage of the opportunity to win business through Task Orders as a Prime contractor on IDIQs and GWACs. However, this way of winning business can be very challenging to manage. The CorasWorks IDIQ Task Order Management solution provided by R3 Business Solutions gives you a comprehensive system to manage […]
If we could only get our people to know about and use the wonderful proposal assets that we have created for them? So, you are using SharePoint. You have created and maintain a nice central repository of proposal assets. Your proposal teams are also using SharePoint to work on proposals. Yet, it seems like people […]
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 […]