Once a proposal is out the door, and certainly once an award decision is made, most companies and organizations do not revisit their proposals. This is a missed opportunity to learn what’s needed to be successful for the next opportunity. If you are not satisfied with your success rate, and even if you are, Proposaldocs can pinpoint areas for improvement to increase your chances of an award. We review previous proposals for content, writing, format, style, and compliance with RFP requirements as applicable. Then, we make recommendations for areas that need strengthening. Proposaldocs also is available to evaluate your proposal management process. A standardized “best-practice” process is crucial to excellent proposal development because it maximizes staff time under strict deadlines, promotes contingency planning, reduces potential errors, decreases frustration levels of staff, and yields consistently good products. No matter how good your writing is, if you can’t get a high-quality proposal out on time every time, you need a new process.

Understanding how vendors are evaluated and chosen helps professionals decide whether or not to bid. Strategic decisions underlie prospect qualification. Proposaldocs helps provide guidance for assessing strategic fit, cultural match and proposal worth. We also help establish pathways to determine whether and how much to invest in proposal responses. Once those decisions are made, we focus on how to help companies align their brand message and operations to ensure that capabilities match client expectations.


Proposaldocs can assist with preparing an RFP for release. By working with your business or procurement managers, we can design a request for proposal that will help ensure better responses and position you to effectively evaluate vendors. Even after procurement specialists prepare and release proposals for competitive bidding, there is still work ahead. Companies must implement best practices for evaluating responses, and later, vendor performance. To derive the maximum return on investment, we help clients to establish a strong vendor evaluation, selection and management system. Proposaldocs helps companies assess the best options from virtual gatekeepers, on-site partners and in-house managers to technology and other tools; we also help establish measurement criteria and appropriate metrics to ensure continuous quality improvement and high-level performance among vendors.