How does your proposal process work?
Does this sound familiar to you?
- Lack of clear direction without structured leadership
- The team is uncertain about the solution
- You often have to write within tight deadlines
- Overworked staff juggling proposals and day jobs
- Proposals are a mix of different writing styles and conflicting information
- You struggle to make a case that the client understands, let alone gets excited about
You might be caught in the Chaos Triangle!
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The Salentis System
Do you want a smooth and chaos-free proposal development process? The Salentis System provides:
- End-to-end, turnkey delivery system adaptable and scalable for client needs
- Freedom for clients’ high-demand expert resources to focus on their day job
- Agile methodology and disciplined team management to keep to schedule
- Focused, independent reviews that drive quality and ensure compliance
- Creative and innovative methods to convey messaging coherently
- Consistently powerful visuals for targeted, persuasive, and subconscious messaging
- Proposal documents differentiated from the competition through great design
“No matter the number of challenges you’ve faced, the roles you’ve had to play or work you’ve had to take on above and beyond what you were hired to do, you not only persevered, you excelled. I didn’t feel worthy to be in the room with such accomplished professionals.”
“Salentis worked to tight deadlines to provide multiple high quality reviews of our proposal throughout development. Salentis also provided excellent subject matter expertise related to operating in the Middle East, which provided instrumental in Camber being able to submit a high quality, accurate, and relevant proposal.”
“The word ‘brilliant’ doesn’t come close to describing what you have produced. I would need to grab a dictionary to find additional synonyms!”
“An amazing effort, and a strong indicator of success through highly professional, smart, advanced, hard-working, team oriented “can do” support. I know we have a lot planned in 2016 and Salentis is an integral element to our success plans.”
“What I appreciate most about Salentis is that you are damn hard workers and true team players…available at all hours…impressive! The quality of the product and ability to hit the ground running – get to the root of the problem(s), validate discriminators, and add value. You guys also bring business acumen to the bid…that is, you have context of the bigger business in mind, rather than just the bid writing.”
Our other services
Need support for shorter one-off requirements such as pre-solicitation preparation or running your red reviews? We can help.
Using a structured approach, our capture and strategy specialists will help you understand the conditions for success.
This could be reviewing previous proposals to look for improvements, or helping gather information, case studies and evidence ahead of a solicitation landing.
- Capture Strategy
- Black Hat and Blue Team Reviews
- Competitor Course of Action Analyses
- Phase 0 Tasks
We can manage your Red Team review process for you.
- We do all the prep work and run the reviews directing reviewers to answer a set of questions based on the evaluation criteria. In this way we gain greater insight into the extent to which the proposal is complete, compliant, and compelling, rather than getting back commentary on grammar and spelling!
- We then collate the responses and provide the feedback to the team.
Salentis International is not a ‘body shop’, but we can help you fill gaps in your bid teams. While we won’t bring the Salentis System processes and tools, our people will bring their skills, experience, and a will to win.
- Writers
- Graphic Designers and Illustrators
- Layout Designers / Publishers
- Subject Matter Experts
- Capture Strategists
- Procurement Portal Expertise (e.g., AWARD®, ADVANCE®)
Navigating the complexities of foreign procurement, or entering new markets is often overwhelming, costly, and high-risk. Lack of knowledge of the procurement systems within the new market can result in reputational damage if the bid is seen to be poor quality.
Salentis can help through strategic services (surveying the market to determine targets/opportunities, providing insights, and developing win strategies), solutioning (helping you develop a mature solution across your new customer’s problem space), and proposal development preparation.
Salentis will steer you safely through the stormy waters of new markets:
- We have regional knowledge to understand cultural expectations
- We can give you in-country, or industry knowledge
- We ensure you ‘sound’ like a local throughout your capture and proposal development process
