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Lanee' Blunt
By Lanee’ Blunt
Have a clear understanding
of your objectives when preparing the proposal. A business proposal is used for
bidding on a RFP, asking for funding, or used to persuade potential clients or
customers to support the proposal financially. Focus on how your business intends
to achieve the client’s goal and meet their objectives. Write from an outline.
Deconstruct the request for proposal (RFP) to develop the outline before you
begin writing.
Deconstruct the Request for
Proposal (RFP). Go over the RFP sentence-by-sentence and make sure that you
understand what it is requesting in order to build an outline to write your
proposal. Explain important and unimportant clauses in the statement of work.
Write a project summary or
executive summary it is a brief summary of the project. Explain why your business
is best for the contract. Explain if your firm is a member of an organization.
Qualifications information. Explain all of the similar types of contracts that you have handled. State the size, the number of participants, or amount of assets. Give the evaluator references from similar contracts that you have done.
Time of completion. What are your deadline dates? Include dates by which you proposed to complete the job. Write the cost information section and provide the proposed price.
Reference
Fedmarket: Proposal Writing:
The Devil is in the Detail
A Cleaning Bid: Construction
Site Clean Up Projects
Entrepreneur; How to Write
an Effective Proposal; Barry Farber; 2004
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