During my career, I have seen a huge number of companies that prepared federal proposals without doing the business development work needed to win. This includes both small and large business. Following below is a list of 19 questions every bidder should ask before investing in a federal proposal. 1. How early [...]
Tom Porter Note: The author addresses this question based on 25 years experience managing division- and sector-level government proposal groups for Fortune 500 companies. A few years ago, I was asked what skills are needed from Government Contract Proposal Managers and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to prepare winning proposals. I responded as [...]
In the post federal government sequestration era, the busiest proposal month is now June. The volume of activity for federal government proposal shops gets faster in April and still faster in May. Then June is so fast that many proposal groups struggle to do winning work. The Solution All possible solutions have [...]
John Capewell -- No doubt, most of us believe we have THE approach to winning a Government Proposal in a highly competitive environment. But the truth is, if any one of us actually had “discovered” a secret sauce then that person would be the only one winning. Closer to the truth is [...]
Jared Serbu -- The Army is taking new steps to speed up its adoption of cloud computing, even as the fate of the Defense Department’s JEDI Cloud contract remains uncertain. New Army Cloud Program Office Army Chief Information Officer (CIO) Lt. Gen. Bruce Crawford said the Army remains fully supportive of the JEDI [...]
Ben Bartine -- Note: Here is the argument when you find yourself working a proposal including serverless computing. Serverless computing is both a misnomer and a new paradigm that proposal personnel need to understand. It can save development time and leverage your development and admin resources. Serverless computing is a fancy way of [...]
Tim Birdsell -- In the last 20 years, I have worked in, led, and created proposal groups for large and small business. I’ve seen some really good practices, and some not so good. Companies that are able to establish long-term success have one thing in common – they have practices and policies [...]
Jared Serbu, deputy editor of Federal News Network -- When it comes to its enterprise network, the Army has reached the same conclusion the Navy did almost two decades ago: Keeping pace with technology is likely to be a losing battle unless it offloads some proportion of the work to private industry. [...]
At a February 22, AFCEA luncheon, Army panelists discussed their battle to get into the cloud and use online IT services. Based on their comments, it is clear that the battle is in its early stages. The panel included: • Colonel (P) Jeth Rey, Army Cyber Command’s Director of Operations • Colonel [...]
Richard A. Spires -- Note: In this fascinating article a former CIO addresses the critical problem of securing federal agency data in the Cloud. I have implemented and seen the benefits of cloud computing for government, both the leverage of compute on demand and the use of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. According to [...]
