Proposal Assessment
Millions are poured into proposal development, but are you confident your proposals are competitive?
Our comprehensive Proposal Assessment goes beyond a simple proofread. We meticulously analyze your proposal content, structure, and compliance to ensure it stands out from the crowd.
Our assessment identifies:
- Areas to strengthen your value proposition and win more bids.
- Compliance gaps to avoid costly errors and delays.
- Opportunities to improve clarity, conciseness, and persuasiveness.
- Visual effectiveness and overall organization of the document.
We measure the results against best practices and provide a summary report of findings and recommendations. This helps you compare the quality of your proposals to best-in-class standards and identify specific ways to enhance competitiveness and create realistic improvement strategies.
Don't leave success to chance. Get a Proposal Assessment and ensure your proposals are strategically crafted to win.
What You Get:
Don't let hidden weaknesses undermine your proposals. A Proposal Assessment offers a comprehensive analysis, providing valuable insights to strengthen your bid and increase win rates. Here's how it empowers you:
Identify Strengths and Weaknesses:
- Strength Detection: Uncovers the hidden strengths within your existing proposal, allowing you to leverage your best assets for maximum impact.
- Weakness Identification: Identifies areas for improvement, such as unclear value propositions or inefficient resource allocation, empowering you to address any shortcomings.
- Alignment with Best Practices: Analyzes your proposal through the lens of established industry best practices, ensuring your strategy aligns with proven methods for proposal excellence.
Optimize for Success:
- Improved Resource Allocation: Identifies opportunities to optimize resource allocation, ensuring your team's expertise is utilized effectively for maximum impact.
- Risk Mitigation Strategies: Helps you identify and mitigate potential risks that could derail your proposal process, fostering a more proactive approach.
- Win-Focused Strategy Development: By pinpointing weaknesses and optimizing resource allocation, we assist in developing a winning strategy that positions you for success in securing new business opportunities.
Gain Valuable Insights and Actionable Data:
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Provides data-driven insights to support informed decision-making throughout the proposal development and revision process.
- Enhanced Communication & Collaboration: Helps foster improved communication and collaboration within your capture team, ensuring everyone is aligned with the optimized strategy.
- Clear Recommendations for Improvement: You'll receive a comprehensive report with clear and actionable recommendations for improvement, allowing you to implement necessary changes and elevate your proposal to a winning standard.
Engage a Consultant
Whether you need help developing win strategies, win themes, or organizing your response for a compelling, customer-focused response, Shipley is ready to help. We can be onsite with your team or provide virtual support. Assessment of past proposals enables clients to implement best practice improvements that ensure they are positioned to win going forward. Knowing where a proposal can be strengthened and better strategically positioned is top industry insight that Shipley’s Proposal Assessment brings to our clients.
What Our Clients Say
Here is what our clients have to say about their experiences and success stories working with Shipley consultants.
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"The guidance you provided on our capture plan helped us re-evaluate and re-direct our win strategy on this must-win competitive bid. Thank you for helping us better understand our competitive position on this critical capture effort. We know we've enhanced our win based on your input."
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"Shipley's technical expertise, extensive knowledge and interpersonal skills enabled us to validate our capture strategy to the Senior Leadership. Your professionalism and can-do attitude truly reflected the best business practices that Shipley brings to the table."
"Your proposal leadership on this complex proposal was invaluable. You were able to harness our resources and bring together a compelling story for our customer while maintaining calm - even in a very chaotic environment with us and our teaming partners."
"As a small business, we were looking for a tool that would give us an edge over our competition. The Shipley Proposal Guide has given us that competitive advantage. The Guide's organization is intuitive, information relevant, and has quickly become the most powerful tool in our proposal development arsenal."
