Who is Platinum Proposals Group?
We are a group of highly seasoned proposal professionals with decades of successful and verifiable experience in helping companies win Government solicitations (see Success Stories). We will maximize your company’s chances of winning those Must-Win proposals.
Why Platinum?
You only get one shot at winning that Must-Win proposal, so why settle for Gold? At Platinum Proposals Group we will elevate your proposal to the next level: Platinum.
What are our Differentiators?
A major reason for our success is that everyone at Platinum Proposals Group lives and breathes proposals! We do not employ a sales force or have layers of management, ensuring cost-effective solutions, happy clients and happy team members. Our growth has been organic and fueled entirely by word of mouth – a testament to the exceptional quality of services we provide. Our differentiators are summarized below:
Exceptionally High Bar for Selecting Team Members
Our team members and the staff we propose for your projects are selected by professionals who understand the intricacies of proposal development. Every team member is personally vetted by our team to make sure they are true experts in their fields; multiple references are carefully checked to verify claims as well as to make sure that when the proposal battle rages on, the candidates perform well under pressure – from a delivery and quality standpoint – and perhaps as importantly, work well with other team members and your staff.
Cohesive Team of Professionals
Many of our team members have worked together successfully for many years on winning proposals. This has resulted in a cohesive team of professionals who know each other’s areas of expertise well and can draw on those strengths when necessary. You will not be presented with a motley collection of individuals who’ve never worked together before. Your Must-Win proposal is too important to be exposed to those inevitable “surprises”.
Extensive Set of Proposal Development Tools
We have built a knowledge base second to none in our business. This includes best-practices and methodologies, templates, dashboards, tools and artifacts. Furthermore, these have been refined over the years to make them lean, mean, and highly effective. We dovetail our time-tested processes and tools to your existing methodologies to enhance your processes and tools wherever possible. We do not impose rigid “99-step methodologies” designed for the proposals of the 1980s on our clients!
The Platinum Standard
Your competition will strive for Gold. We will elevate your proposal to Platinum. At Platinum Proposals Group we believe that building a proposal is similar to building a house. The blueprints (plans) and the foundation are the most important steps, and no amount of spackling over and painting (color review editing) at later stages will compensate for a bad blueprint or a flimsy foundation. By that time, the Genie is out of the bottle and you cannot put him back in. That is why we make a major effort at the front-end – before any writing happens - to get the foundation right through crisp storyboarding, win theme articulation and identifying the benefits of your solution to the Government. We resist the urge to “start writing” until we have that solid foundation. We find that this approach ensures that later stages of proposal development go smoothly and efficiently. In addition, we supplement your color review teams with our Platinum reviewers –expert “fresh pairs of eyeballs” that will review the proposal and provide no-nonsense, unbiased, and actionable suggestions, free from potential “group think” or internal politics to elevate the quality of the proposal to the Platinum standard.
Corporate Reach-Back
Our team of in-house experts is always available to provide unbiased advice, suggestions, templates, tools, and recommendations if requested by your staff or our proposal development team working on your site. “Extra pairs of eyeballs” are available in many subject matter areas, including compliance, technical solutions, agency knowledge, interpretation of ambiguous RFP instructions and more.
Listening to Your Requirements and Tailoring our Team to Your Specific Needs
We don’t simply throw resumes at you when you need proposal development support. First, we review the solicitation (wherever possible and allowed per the classification level) and determine the optimum team structure to get the proposal to Platinum standard in the allotted time. We then work with you to learn about potential qualified resources that may be available within your organization (and the percentage of time they can allocate to supporting the proposal) in order to minimize your costs. Your company’s culture is also taken into account when selecting team members. Whether you end up with a single proposal support consultant from Platinum Proposals Group or an entire proposal team, you can rest assured that you have the right team in place to maximize your chances of winning that Must-Win proposal.