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Deadly Sins: Ignorance is not bliss and your past does not govern your future

January 18, 2023Admin@fedsavvycompetitive intelligence, win-loss

The sins of hubris and ignorance continue to plague bidders.  While there are always ample opportunities to engage in poor decision making, let’s learn from these follies.  This pair of sins focuses on “the Government is not your mother” and your past does not govern your future.  Read on as we continue our series in…

Deadly Sins in Proposals: Adventures in Trick Plays

November 28, 2022Admin@fedsavvybusiness development process, competitive intelligence, win-loss

Does your capture team want to try a trick play to get a competitive advantage?  This can work (perhaps) if you clear it with the referee (a.k.a. your customer), but it can go very badly.  Being creative in capture strategy and solution development can help your prospective chance to win (a.k.a. the dreaded Pwin).  This…

Deadly Sins in Proposals: The saga continues

August 11, 2022Admin@fedsavvywin-loss

We’re back to bring forward yet more “deadly sins.”  While these sins and examples might give us all a good hearty and exasperated groan, let’s learn from these errors so you can be a smarter bidder.  This continues our series in win-loss trends.  Sin #7: Key personnel exceed basic requirements = strength? No!  There is…

Podcast with Scale2Market on How Agencies REALLY Evaluate Proposals

August 9, 2022Admin@fedsavvy
In this podcast, Brian Lindholm of FedSavvy Strategies discusses proposal evaluations and trends in wins / losses with Shirley Collier of Scale2Market. https://www.fedsavvystrategies.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/HowGovEvalsProposals-Podcast.mp3

Bid Low + Be Acceptable on Technical = Win?

June 10, 2022Admin@fedsavvycompetitive intelligence, market intelligence, win-loss

The age-old debate of “submitting a technically acceptable proposal and a very aggressive bid leads to a win” is one we hear constantly.  Let’s pause though.  Is that really true?  This routinely comes up in Black Hat reviews as a topic of great and enthusiastic debate.  While we presume this is partly a product of…

PROJECT 38: A roadmap for avoiding common fallacies on what wins & loses

April 22, 2022Admin@fedsavvy

Deadly Sins in Proposals: The Hits Keep Coming

March 8, 2022Admin@fedsavvybusiness development process, competitive analysis, competitive intelligence, market intelligence

Oh the mistakes that are made leading to some very expensive losses are ever so avoidable. Bear these in mind so you can avoid spending bid and proposal funds on losing proposals and then more on legal fees for a losing protest. Sin #5: You don’t understand the evaluation tendencies of the agency This sin…

More Deadly Sins In Proposals

March 1, 2022Admin@fedsavvybusiness development process, competitive analysis, competitive intelligence, govcon, market intelligence

We continue our journey into the land of deadly sins in proposals with two sins involving the bidder’s failure to connect content and concepts in their proposal to ensure credibility of their proposal.  Sin #3: You cut staffing levels without an effective rationalization Although reducing staffing levels is a short cut to significantly lower your…

Deadly Sins in Proposals

February 17, 2022Admin@fedsavvycapture, competitive analysis, competitive intelligence, govcon, market intelligence

We’ve covered traps of Black Hat reviews and capture team follies.  Now it’s time to reveal some of the most common and deadliest sins in proposals.  This blog leverages research and analysis we’ve done on mistakes made by some major U.S.  Government contractors.  In order to conduct this analysis, we used GAO protest docket data…

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