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If you're bidding for a recompete contract as the incumbent contractor or bidding to replace an incumbent for such a contract, here are some links I recommend you check out.
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Support the APMP and its chapters (and maybe learn something) by attending the following six events in September and October.
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Subject: Request from DoD for Comments on Overly Burdensome Procurement/Contract Requirements
Summary. DoD is soliciting well-supported comments from industry regarding Government acquisition processes that increase costs, especially overhead costs, but do not contribute to value added in systems and services delivered to the Department.
The Problem. “The Department of Defense understands that some of its mandates, reporting requirements, and other acquisition practices cause or encourage industry to adopt processes and make investments that increase costs, especially overhead costs, but do not contribute to value added in systems and services delivered to the Department.”
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In a recent ProposalCafe Blog entry I gave advice about networking as a proposal consultant. This time around, the subject is still proposal consultants but more about the client - consultant relationship (forming it and sustaining it). Much of the content of the following articles focuses heavily on the client (including the prospective client). However, there's a lot of useful info for the proposal consultant (of which I'm one).
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In my last entry in The ProposalCafe Blog, I addressed the topic of tweeting. Well, here are 30 tweets of proposal-related advice that I've made via @proposalcafe. If you missed them, this saves you the effort of finding them on Twitter. If you didn't, consider them "retweets" -- and an easy accessible source of content for me to write another blog entry.
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ProposalCafe.com is an active Twitter user: @proposalcafe. On Twitter.com, we follow more than 1,000 and have almost 500 followers. We invite you to follow our tweets and retweets via Twitter.com and the ProposalCafe.com "Our Recent Tweets" section (located just below The ProposalCafe Blog section). Twitter displays our tweets and retweets, while the "Our Recent Tweets" section displays just our tweets. Our tweets/retweets are used to distribute proposal-related advice, info, and job opportunities -- postings that supplement many other resource postings on ProposalCafe.com.
By the way, tweeting could help your proposal writing. Writing within the tweet limit of 140 characters can be good practice for writing page-limited proposals. The following are links about using Twitter, including how to live with a tweet's 140-character limit.
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Here are other "illnesses" identified in an article that I wrote for the APMP Journal (Fall/Winter 2009): "from A to Z, the Very 'Unofficial' APMP Glossary". Enjoy this blog entry ... not the "illnesses."
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Here's a proposal health service announcement for proposal professionals!
Beware of the following 10 "illnesses" that may infect you or your proposal team colleagues. These maladies (and others) are identified in an article that I wrote for the APMP Journal: "from A to Z, the Very 'Unofficial' APMP Glossary" -- see the Defining Moments feature on the ProposalCafe.com Home page. Eventually in The ProposalCafe Blog, I'll address all of the illnesses listed in the article.
Please note that the illness symptoms are described, but not the treatments. However, the information will at least allow you diagnose your illness -- and determine if your medical insurance provides coverage for the treatment.
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Software applications and the Internet have had a great impact on proposal/business development over the last 30 years. Software automation and web communication have been used to replace or support tasks that were once manually performed. I've complied a list of software products, including web-based applications, that can help you with a variety of proposal development and management, pricing/quoting, documentation, and illustration tasks.
The list is long, but it isn't meant to be an exhaustive one of all applicable software resources. Please let ProposalCafe.com know about any other software that you think could help in the development of commercial, government, or grant proposals.
For more info about software, see ProposalCafe.com's Resource Links section for Software Providers: http://proposalcafe.com/directory/weblinks/941-software-providers.
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Starting this week, OST Global Solutions, a ProposalCafe.com Premium Sponsor, will conduct a three-part webinar series: How to Succeed as a Proposal Consultant. It appears that this training can help the wannabe, new, or experienced proposal consultant. For details about these webinars, see http://www.ostglobalsolutions.com/successful-proposal-consultant.
I'm confident that the webinar instructor, Olessia Smotrava-Taylor, will conduct very informative and beneficial webinars -- and won't need my help in doing so. However, I'd like to offer my advice for proposal consultants (regardless of their experience) about something I think is necessary to be a successful proposal consultant: networking.
My advice, simply stated, is network, and when you've done that, network some more.
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During my almost 28 years of proposal/quote development experience, I haven't been concerned with finding bid or grant opportunities. My concern has been helping my employer and clients in winning contract and grant opportunities they had already found. But you may be unlike me and need to find targets as a member of a for-profit contractor seeking government contracts/grants or as a member of a non-profit organization seeking grants. If so, the following are some links to non-government web sites that might help you in your pursuit.
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