Proposal Manager Bundle
A step-by-step guide with key tasks, milestones, and tools combined with the updated Shipley Proposal Guide designed to help you win more business.
Shipley's Proposal Manager Bundle includes the updated Shipley Proposal Guide and the Proposal Manager Playbook.
The Shipley Proposal Guide
Version 5.0 includes over 50 topics and dozens of sample documents showing how to apply best practices.
Topics include:
- Proposal Strategy
- Customer Focus
- Proofreading and Revising
- Outlining
- Storyboards and Mockups
- Task Order Proposals
- Grant Proposals
- Active/Passive Voice
- Bid/No-Bid Decisions
- Compliance and Responsiveness
- Page and Document Design
- Virtual Team Management
The Proposal Manager Playbook
The Playbook is divided into three sections:
Proposal Planning – All the necessary tasks and milestones for leveraging sales and capture activity into the proposal win strategy. Guidance for creating schedules, outlines, compliance and response matrices, and win themes are all included in this section.
Proposal Development – Tasks from finalizing teaming agreements to holding daily stand-up, status meetings are included in this section of the Playbook. Also included is step-by-step guidance on incorporating visuals, finalizing the proposal management plan (PMP), reviewing draft content, coaching authors, and facilitating proposal review sessions.
Post-Submittal Activities – Significant attention to key activities and milestones after proposal submission is often the difference between winning and losing. This section of the Playbook gives step-by-step guidance on organizing and recording lessons learned, preparing a transition plan, conducting a white hat, and celebrating a winning effort.