Winning Government Contracts shows you the way. It begins at the beginning, assuming no prior knowledge of the government marketplace and its sometimes complicated terminology. Written in a clear, easy-to-understand language by experienced sales and marketing professionals, this book takes you through the registration and bidding process step by step.
How to Get Government Contracts demystifies the process of how a company can enter the government market, win its first and subsequent contracts, and then grow itself into a multi-million-dollar government contractor within a couple of years. It offers an insider’s view into the latest best practices that government contractors use to succeed in an increasingly competitive market, and it shows exactly how your company can apply these techniques to build a strong business. Many companies venture into the government market with a certain naiveté and pay a hefty price to find out that there is much more to winning a contract than writing last-minute proposals in response to publicly posted solicitations. To stop the bleeding of precious resources, they need to step back to learn how professionals win business in the federal arena. This book shows you how to find, for example, the best potential customers and opportunities for your company. It also explains the secret to winning consistently by conducting pre-proposal preparation (also called "capture") and practicing a disciplined, process-based approach to proposal development. This book provides a recipe for winning government contracts over and over again, the way seasoned government contractors do it. After reading this book, you will know exactly what to do to position your company to win a government proposal before a solicitation becomes public, including building customer relationships, gathering intelligence, developing a "win strategy," performing competitive analysis, selecting the best teammates, and developing a solution. As a result, you will apply professional techniques to organizing your proposal effort, outlining a proposal document, and writing RFPs that persuade evaluators to award the contract to you.
Takes the mystery out of the tendering processes the government favours and shows how any business with suitable products or services can successfully bid for government contracts. The information will help any business improve its tendering capabilities, whether for government or private contracts.
Are you struggling to understand how to do business with Government? Does responding to Government Requests for Proposals leave you feeling frustrated, confused, and overwhelmed? Did you know that every Request for Proposal is won way before it is ever published? Or that there are proposal evaluators who do not read your entire proposal response and yet they still score it? Government Tenders Don't Suck! is a no-nonsense playbook for the overwhelmed small business owner who wants to navigate the complicated government tendering process and win. The book is a comprehensive guide for business development and RFP. It has been designed to help you-the "little gal and guy" Avoid common pitfalls and make the most of your business understanding, skills, and experience to purposefully win profitable Government Contracts Compete for business through structured and meaningful written responses to solicitations from potential government clients. Figure out how to respond to government tenders without losing your mind, even when your resources are constrained, or you have few prior assets that can demonstrate a successful track record Manage tender response operations on shoestring budgets through time-saving tools and templates you can rinse and reuse
Mistakes on mega-projects continue to embarrass Governments all over the world. No country has been immune from such fiascos, but the failures are eminently avoidable - if you know how. Governments don’t need the costs of failure, they don’t need the aggravation. They do need Louise Hart’s Procuring Successful Mega-Projects. Within the context of large public projects, the author explains how to structure the project, how to build and manage a team, how to run the procurement process and how to ensure that the handover to the delivery phase is not a hospital pass.
Like never before Australian governments are embracing the vitality and diversity of small businesses when they partner with the private sector. The digital economy now means SMBs and big businesses can vie for government business on a more level playing field. Yes, the big business bidding teams are still strong, but they can be rigid and cumbersome. Unlike your SMB ... You can compete. You can win. It's not easy, but at least it's a fairer fight these days. And this book is your insider's guide for how to go about it. In simple, clear and direct steps, Winning Government Business: The 6 Rules and 9 Absolutes for Small to Medium Businesses sets out how your SMB can claim its own slice of the government pie.
The OECD Principles for Integrity in Public Procurement are a ground-breaking instrument that promotes good governance in the entire procurement cycle, from needs assessment to contract management.
Acquire the necessary skills to win business through proposals, bids, tenders, and presentations—this hands-on guide is your partner for success You have in your hands the collected knowledge and skills of the professional proposal writer. Proposal writing is a profession — a growing and increasingly important one and an essential part of a broader group of business development professionals who plan and execute strategies for businesses who want to obtain new customers. Proposal writers have a professional organization — the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) — and their best practices are the foundation for this book. Proposal writing is a skill you can learn, practice, and master; you can even go through a professional certification process to prove your mastery. Writing Business Bids & Proposals For Dummies is your no-nonsense guide to finding out what professional proposal writers know and for applying it to your own business. If you're a small- to medium-size business owner, a first-time proposal writer in a medium-size company, or a sales representative, you know that a written proposal (printed or electronic) is still a common, personal, and effective way to win business. Written in plain English, Writing Business Bids & Proposals For Dummies will help you to: Know the difference between reactive proposals (the RFP or request for proposal) and proactive proposals Focus on the customer by going beyond their requirements to address their true needs Know your competition through research and analysis Write persuasively to develop a winning business proposal Plan and use a repeatable proposal process Incorporate a lessons learned aspect to your proposal process Use tools and templates to accelerate your proposals Motivate and lead your proposal team to ensure they're on the same page Use graphics to enhance your proposals Learn ways to automate your proposal development process And a whole lot more Additionally, you'll gain access to ten templates for building a proposal, find out ten common misconceptions about bids and proposals, and add a compiled list of online resources to your toolset. Grab a copy of Writing Business Bids & Proposals For Dummies to start sharpening your proposal writing skillset.
Losing any contract during the rebid phase has a major impact on a business. Investment in time, effort and resources on rebids can underpin significant increases in growth, at a lower cost than from new business alone. Winning Your Rebid will help incumbent contractors to increase their chances of retaining an existing contract which, whilst it includes the skills of bidding for new contracts, requires a significantly different set of actions and processes in order to be consistently successful. The book takes the reader through all the preparations over the period of a contract that will put them in the best position to win their rebid, and gives advice, techniques and ideas for how to run and deliver it successfully.
