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 […]
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 […]
Proposal development professionals working on RFPs typically have a very clear understanding of the process of work and what needs to get done. However, instead of being able to focus on the work that matters their days are cluttered (typically 30% at least) with dealing with all of the “noise” that surrounds the work. Noise […]
In a recent post we presented the value proposition of using R3 WinCenter as your one system for BD, capture and proposal operations. When you do this, imagine the information that it collects across all of the work on opportunities, BD, capture, proposals, accounts, contacts, business processes, tasks, action items, knowledge use and more. With […]
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 […]
Acquisition adds core solution to R3 product suite for Federal Government Contractors (“GovCon”) Ashburn, Virginia (December 22, 2015) R3 Business Solutions (“R3”), a leading provider of business solutions for Federal Government Contractors, announced the acquisition of the WinCenter® product and business from Lohfeld Consulting Group (“Lohfeld”). This acquisition expands the R3 GovCon Suite of modular, […]
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 […]
WinCenter drives the full business development life cycle. It provides work management for capture and proposal activities. It is the system of record for opportunities and the repository of most of the data that is created and used across the phases of this process. It uses work management automation to drive the work amongst the […]
We recently completed an implementation of R3 WinCenter for an 800 person GovCon customer. The system that they ended up with was dramatically different than the out-of-the-box WinCenter solution. I’ll walk through a few elements of this implementation. It is a good example of how the flexibility of WinCenter is enabling organizations to realize the benefits of an […]
Lohfeld WinCenter is an integrated capture and proposal management system for Government Contractors. It brings both capture and proposal work together into a single business development process. The result is a more efficient and effective way to win business. But, what if you are using SharePoint for Proposal Management and you don’t want to disrupt […]