Like most large programs now, the Defense Health Information Technology Systems (DHITS Gen I) procurement is continuing its march to the right. The path forward has so far seen three Industry Days and four RFI surveys. The draft RFP remains incomplete, lacking evaluation factors and other particulars. The September 14, release date [...]
The buyers of proposal staffing services face a critical problem: How to get proposal winning support for an affordable price? To analyze this question, let’s divide the providers into: (1) Low price, (2) high price, and (3) medium price. 1. Low Price Proposal Staffing Providers Through competing with them, we know that [...]
This is published courtesy of OCI business partner the Rebid Centre in the United Kingdom We always keep an eye on the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) website (www.gao.gov) as it offers, through its publication of decisions regarding protests made by losing bidders, a stream of examples of common mistakes made by [...]
During the past 30 years, our company has helped customers prepare thousands of proposals. Based on this experience, we can offer the following guidance to lower the cost of using proposal consultants. 1. Establish a relationship with a source that provides quality proposal consultants at an affordable price. Some proposal consulting companies [...]
“The overriding conclusion is, there is ‘a fundamental mismatch’ between what agencies want to hear about and how proposal teams spend time and money..” Unique Proposal Evaluation Research On July 15, 2015 Wendy Frieman [say Freeman] made a presentation at the NCA APMP dinner meeting on research she had performed addressing the [...]
