Key benefits of using these tools include:

• Automates labor-intensive proposal development steps
• Improves the efficiency and cost effectiveness
• Embeds quality into every aspect of the process
• Generates less paper and reduces paper flow
• Reuses existing text and graphics
• Provides immediate productivity gains
• Enables the team to focus on its core mission: effective communication of successful win themes and strategies
• Increases your win rate by improving quality and responsiveness
• Reduces development costs by implementing a standard automated discipline.
• Makes it easier to meet deadlines and schedules
• Improves team coordination, communication, and effectiveness.

Key features to look for in these tools include:

• Build a proposal outline that meets proposal preparation requirements
• Parse and allocate requirements to ensure complete responsiveness to the RFP
• Develop the critical path to control project schedule and cost
• Allocate strategies and themes to the section level
• Produce electronic storyboards
• Maintain configuration management of proposal volumes and sections
• Create a central library for easy access to proposal background documents, references, graphics and procedures
• Automate critical tasks including parsing and allocating requirements, creating storyboards, building compliance matrices, scheduling resources, and tracking budgets.
• Interface with typical productivity software like Microsoft Word and Microsoft Project.
• Customize forms, styles, and development techniques for any proposal development methodology.
• Compare RFP amendments with the original documents and display which sections of the proposal are impacted by changes
• Control access to all proposals by user name and password
• Easy project and task selection for your employees
• Provide multi-user, multi-site and multi-platform proposal access
• Keep management and production statistics to track proposal progress
• Allow ad-hoc project management reports
• Provide scalable functions for all types of proposals, simple or complex.

For further information, contact John Bender at 703-642-5153 or at jbender@acibiz.com

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