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Government RFP & Proposal Writing

As you enter the field of government bids, you find that there is a special skill needed for government RFP, request for proposals and proposal response writing. When you bid on government contracting proposals, you must proceed with caution.

RFP services at the Colorado firm of Watson & Associates focuses on helping small, medium and large businesses increase the probability of award for request for proposals and other unique requests from the contracting agency.

Requests for Proposals

As a potential or existing government contractor in Colorado or any other state, you are more than likely seeing a decrease in awards for government bids. As a new contractor, you are probably wondering how to respond to government RFPs. The government’s request for proposals and responses to RFP’s are evaluated more harshly than before. The government contracts process has given the agency even more discretion on choice of best value and trade-offs between technical evaluations and pricing.

Our government procurement consultants can draft or advise on how to effectively write your responses in a more competitive fashion.

Federal Procurement Services

Government Request for Information ( RFI )
Sources sought responses
Government RFP writing
RFP consultancy
Contract management
Legal consulting
Federal RFP counseling
Government Contracts
Federal Procurement Counsel
Bid protests
Terminations

What your competitors don’t tell you

Many federal contractors simply don’t quite understand how the agency source selection team works or what legal standard they must follow. Instead, they spend thousands of dollars attending events, canned training events, or simply role the dice in hope of landing a bid award. As a result, their bids often times do not even reach the competitive range (pool to be selected from).

Successful contractors on the other hand don’t tell you what makes them successful, at best you may land a subcontract and be told that “you must start out small and work your way up like we did.” Our bid and RFP consulting expertise changes the odds in your favor. We do this by using the appropriate teaming allowances, converting missed commercial past performance into relevant RFP past performance. We have actually sat on government contracting bid source selection teams. Take advantage of our Free initial consultation.

Nationwide Assistance

As federal procurement consultants and attorneys, we provide effective proposal writing services to government contractors across the county. We provide bid consultation to contractors in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Kansas and Nebraska, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Arkansas, Denver, Colorado Springs, Utah, California, Oklahoma, Ohio, Maine, Florida, Texas, Nevada, Las Vegas, Georgia, Hawaii, Alaska, Washington D.C., West Virginia, Florida, Indiana, Washington, Mississippi, Tennessee, Miami, Virgin Islands, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Virgina, Delaware, Connecticut, Arizona, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Montana.

Government bids have short deadlines

Government contractors sometimes have a hard time reading RFPs and responding to government solicitations in time. Government procurement bidding has a no tolerance approach to responses. If you are a minute late, then you are deemed non-responsive. This is where Watson & Associates can provide guidance and advice. Even the experienced contractors sometimes have a difficult time in their RFP responses. The old days of cranking responses through a pre-formatted software program are gone. The government actually now reads federal contract bids for best value. Plus, there are now mandated source selection teams for performance based contracts. This team includes non-contracting personnel. In other words, you now have to write to a different audience when you respond to RFPs. If you are having difficulty and don’t know where to turn, Contact us for immediate help.

Common mistakes

Writing complex language in a federal RFP or response to a solicitation is a pitfall that many contractors fall into. You simply cannot afford to do this. You can not afford to ramble or price your response by missing critical data. Most people fall prey to the largest land mine in government requirements bidding. They simply parrot the exact wording in the solicitation in their response. This mistake will cost you. Colorado’s Watson & Associates actually write in persuasive and compelling language that includes best value considerations.

Lowest bid is not always the winner

Although government bids are looked at for pricing, government contracts are not awarded to just the lowest bidder. Instead, under the federal procurement rules, a higher priced bidder can win the contract if the government sees value in your proposal. Our government RFP consultants and attorneys can guide you in the right direction.

Commercial Experience as Past Performance

Government RFPs, request for proposals and response to solicitations require you to demonstrate past performance (experience with this type of work). This is not always easy to do. We know the ratings mandated by the FAR and we know how to show the government that your past performance is relevant. Proposals are rated heavily on your past performance in addition to price. You can’t afford to make mistakes in this area when responding to a request for proposal.

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