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Half the battle is having a pattern that includes all the essential
elements. With these downloads, the time you save will more than cover
the almost free charge for this information. Shoulds
for Teaming Agreements
This free, one-page PDF lets you know about many of the elements that
should be in a teaming agreement. If you are a small business, you
may need to team with another company or group in order to meet the
all the requirements of an RFP. Or perhaps a company may invite your
organization to team with them in responding to an RFP. In either
case, you are sure to find this document helpful whether you are preparing
a teaming agreement prior to legal review, or whether you are reviewing
one that you have received prior to discussing it with your legal
counsel.
Tips
for Teaming
This free, three-page PDF document provides some tips for answering
important questions about teaming: What can you expect when you team
with another organization? Should I get a lawyer? Who communicates
with the Customer? How do I protect my proprietary information?
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6 Winning Strategies to Attract Small Businesses
Download this PDF slide show and learn about strategies that can assist
larger companies in making their RFP's more attractive to small businesses.
Small business owners may also find this document interesting reading.
Government agencies are required by law to give a percentage of their
business each year to small businesses.
Checklist
for Attracting Small Business Participation
This one-page PDF provides a checklist of the most important things
that a large business can do to encourage small business participation.
RFP
Elements
This four page PDF is a great introduction that explains all the important
elements of the Request for Proposal. You will find its contents helpful
in any number of situations: for example if you have a new proposal
team member who needs to be trained from the ground up nothing more
basic than understanding how to read an RFP. Perhaps you are faced
with the daunting task of creating an RFP use this PDF as a guide.
An
RFP Should be Carefully Written
This document explains some of the basic issues to consider before
writing an RFP. It is especially helpful for those who have been assigned
to create an RFP for the first time. RFP
Consulting Services
If you are interested in obtaining professional assistance with your
RFP, download this document for consideration of the ways in which
MB Dolphin can assist you. MORE TO COME! Be sure to return
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Teaming
Agreement Template Does your organization participate
as a subcontractor on large projects? Do you know what a Teaming Agreement
should include? Perhaps you need to create a teaming agreement?
Compare this teaming agreement to ones that you may be asked to sign
and then ask your lawyer to negotiate necessary inclusions. Creating
a teaming agreement? Fill in the blanks of this four-page MS word
document and pass it by your lawyer for a final approval. Then send
it out to people with whom you want to team.
RFP Summary Template
RFPs that you receive from other organizations will always vary, but
your summary of them doesn't have to. In fact, it will save your proposal
team time if it doesn't. With this template you can search through
any RFP and be assured that the identified requirements will always
appear in the same place in your summary (RFP Breakdown). Make it
easy for the people on your proposal team. Download this template
now.
Proposal Process Highlights
Can't see the forest for the trees? Use this document as a map. It
will help to keep you focused on what is important. It is also an
excellent document to give to executives who might not be familiar
with all the detail surrounding a successful proposal project. Still
another valuable use of this content is to keep members of the team
focused on continuous improvement.
Guideline for Statement of Work Contents
Need to know what should be included in a Statement of Work? With
the information in this PDF file, you won't have to worry about leaving
anything out of your Statement of Work. This 8-page document tells
all.
Storyboard Template
Make sure that your proposals flow from one section to the next! Download
this one-page MS word template and use it to organize your proposal
project with storyboards so that everyone on the proposal team has
a big picture of the entire project not just the section for which
they are responsible.
Successful Proposal Project Management
Plan
Download this two-page PDF file and use it to communicate the big
picture of the process to your team and to your decision-makers. This
document focuses on the sequential steps for responding to an RFP.
Unlike the Proposal Process Highlights document which includes detail
regarding supporting infrastructure of the proposal process, this
document focuses on the activities of the process.
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Up Your Win Rate!
The Small Business Guide to Winning
Proposals
Written by Elizabeth Berry and Sandra McClintock for MB Dolphin & Associates,
LLC
This book is dedicated to all small businesses, the heart of
global commerce. Anyone who considers even a few facts about
small businesses will realize that "small" does not refer to
opportunity. MB Dolphin, a small business too, is here to assist
other small
businesses in capturing some of the $48 billion awarded annually
to small business from the federal government.
NEW! Government Proposals: Cracking
the Code and Winning Business
This PPT presentation on winning government proposals was given
by an MB Dolphin consultant at a SCORE workshop in Tustin, CA
on January 28, 2010.
The next workshop is scheduled for July 6, 2010. Click
here for more information.
The workshop is geared for small businesses that want
to bid on government and public agency procurements. It contains
the full range of proposals elements and how to address each
for success.
Topics covered include: how to make contact with government
clients, pre-solicitation activities, marketing/capture, reading
solicitations,
creating detailed outlines, kick-off team activities, building
w in themes, preparing storyboards, writing technical and management
sections, reviewing the first draft, conducting team reviews,
producing the proposal and delivering it to the client.
48 page presentation.
Click on the link to download the zip file or Right click select "Save
Target As" to your computer.
Download
Free
PDF (1.2 MB)
MB Dolphin consultants are available to present this workshop
for your staff members. If you need specific education on any phase
of the proposal process, we can tailor a workshop to exactly fit
your requirements. Give us a call at 949-495-4747 for more information.
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