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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?

Use 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.

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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? Use this four-page PDF document as a guide 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 PDF template and use it as a guide.
Proposal Process Highlights
Can't see the forest for the trees? Use this PDF 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 PDF template and use it as a guide 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.

 

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.

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