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  • Negotiating GSA Prices
    The General Services Administration (GSA) appears to be placing more emphasis on obtaining the lowest possible price when negotiating GSA schedule contracts...
  • Competitiveness of Multi-vendor Contracts
    Multi-vendor contracts limit competition and make purchasing faster and cheaper. The government, when using a multi-vendor contract, need only solicit bids from three vendors holding the type of contract in question...
  • Small Businesses and Federal Sales
    The following question often surfaces at our seminars, "What procedures should be followed by small businesses eager to participate in the federal market?" The answer to this question is that a small business should implement an aggressive federal s...
  • Implement Version Control
    In a recent installment "Solving the Proposal Dilemma," we recommended that you automate and "version control" your old proposals and Management Plan boilerplate...
  • Curing the Two Deadly Sins
    The previous installment discussed the problems associated with waiting until the last minute to tackle critical issues and providing overblown corporate experience and personnel chapters for federal proposals...
  • What is Wrong with the Proposal Review Process?
    Many companies have proposal reviews of different colors. The reviews we'll focus on in this installment are the two most common, Pink and Red Team reviews...
  • Working with Teaming Partners to Draft Proposals
    No one person or corporation is an island. If you are like most successful contractors, you team with other organizations to write winning proposals...
  • Proposal Planning: What to Do Before Kickoff
    Before you undertake any project, what do you put in place? A plan. Writing a proposal is no different. The objective of preparing a proposal plan is to establish direction for the proposal...
  • Red Team Review Guidelines
    A couple of installments ago, we wrote that the process many companies use for proposal reviews is "broken." We discussed why and how to mitigate the issues that seem to plague proposal reviews (see What is Wrong with the Proposal Review Process?)...
  • Storyboards Save Time and Effort
    Storyboards are conceptual planning tools used to help writers plan each section before drafting text. In the broadest sense, storyboards use words and graphics to outline a concept...
  • What Federal Proposal Evaluators Want
    Most federal proposal evaluators share several characteristics. They don't want to read your proposal and many only read certain sections; they skim for the good parts...
  • Loss Avoidance as a Sales Tactic
    Companies hoping to land large federal sales opportunities quickly discover that bids offered under a public, Request for Proposal (RFP) are often expensive prospects to bid upon...
  • Proposal Writing Guidelines and the Review Process
    The very best proposals are those written in a single voice. However, this goal is difficult to reach if multiple proposal writers are involved on the project...
  • Proposal Organization and Management
    In a previous installment of this proposal writing series, we strongly suggested you should only write those proposals you believe your company can win. This advice may seem trite, but that's exactly what you must do...
  • Managing the Proposal Process
    Proposals are what some might call a "necessary evil" in the government negotiated procurement market...
  • Proposal Writing for Government Contracting
    The previous installments we discussed managing and organizing a proposal writing project. This installment provides guidelines and tools for the proposal writing effort itself...
  • Advanced Proposal Writing: Key Elements When Writing About Your Program Management
    For Small Businesses: Key Elements When Writing About Your Program Management Last week, we noted that the new strategy of federal agencies is to mandate that small businesses band together under a single lead small business and take on larger, more soph...