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How to Become a Government Contractor

Government contracts can be lucrative opportunities for your organization. Their appeal can be tempting, but the process involved to bid and win government contracts can prove to be intimidating for most. At The Bid Lab, we can help guide you through this process without any of the stress or anxiety that is usually involved. Perhaps…

RFP Process Guide: Your Ultimate Bid Gameplan

Responding to a Request for Proposal (RFP) is an excellent way to generate new business for your organization. However, it can be seen as a huge inconvenience without the right process in place. Putting together a winning RFP response requires a significant investment of time and resources. In addition, unexpectedly short turnaround times can cause…

What’s Your RFP Strategy?

Your RFP strategy is perfect, right? Well… almost. You could be missing out on some great opportunities by not including an effective Request for Proposal (RFP) strategy alongside your other tried-and-true methods. RFPs continue to grow in popularity and are commonly produced by a wide variety of corporations, not just government entities. If your business…

RFP Automation: Debunking the Most Common Myths

With all the recent buzz around RFP automation, it’s easy to forget that automation is already an integral part of our everyday lives. Automation powers everything from smart home devices to word-processing software that checks your grammar. In the proposal industry specifically, its purpose is to simplify your RFP process, allowing you to respond to…

Proposal Process: Tips for Streamlining Your RFP

What’s the one acronym that strikes fear into the hearts of your employees? You guessed it, it’s “RFP.” But it doesn’t have to be that way! Companies have long labeled the RFP process as a source of stress and anxiety. What often causes this negativity isn’t the RFP proposal management process itself but rather an…

5 New Tech Trends Impacting How Companies Should Approach RFP Responses

In the proposal industry, automation represents a future characterized by better quality and less painful RFP responses. And we’re nearer than ever before to achieving this goal. As companies are aiming to submit more bids in a shorter period of time, they’re looking to RFP technology as a means of analyzing data, shortening man-hours, and…

How to Win More RFPs

Chances are you’ve had moments when writing a proposal where you felt like giving up. It’s hard to ‘just keep swimming’ when you aren’t sure if your hard work will pay off in the end. Wouldn’t it be so much easier if there was a simple formula for creating a winning bid? The problem with…