Does working on a proposal feel like herding cats?
Our SMEs can assist with the development of your proposal strategy or provide coaching to your team to help them become more comfortable with the proposal development process. Don’t want to deal with the cats? Let us do the herding for you.
Our team has over 30 years of collective proposal experience, from large IDIQs and GWACs, to quick-turn task orders. Our proposal process is scalable and efficient, with only the steps needed to get the job done.
Our comprehensive services are aligned to help you succeed:
- Strategic & Advisory Support
- Technical Writing & Editing
- Proposal Process Management
- Graphic Design
- Template & Tool Development
- Desktop Publishing & Submission Support
- Training
Our Services
Over 30 years of proposal experience, from large IDIQs and GWACs, to quick-turn task orders
Strategic & Advisory Support
Ask a Proposal Manager
This is a flat-fee service where customers will have a minimum two hours to ask questions and discuss strategies for bids they are preparing for. Customers must meet OCI requirements to qualify for this service.
Launch Right Support Package
Understand what is required to win a particular bid that you are interested in, and obtain the information needed to meet those needs and increase your chances of success. We want to lay the foundation down for you so that your efforts do not get abandoned for simply not knowing how to start, not meeting compliance, or missing required elements. We offer this as a flat-fee service in hopes of making assistance more affordable to those who need it. This service includes:
- Compliance matrix
- Proposal Schedule
- Tailored templates with recommendations
What is not included:
- Proposal coordination or management support
- Writing or Editing
- Graphics
* This service can be combined with Ask a Proposal Manager for more complete support.
Compliance Review
We offer a complete review of proposal content and make recommendations to ensure compliance is met. This is a quick turnaround flat-fee service that focuses solely on compliance making it both timely and affordable.
Complete Proposal Support
Faunce Associates personnel will serve as your proposal management team. Our support includes creation of your proposal roadmap, templates, and compliance matrix. We also coordinate proposal meetings, technical sessions, and reviews.
- Proposal Architecture
- Proposal Kick Off Planning and Facilitation
- Document, Schedule, and Version Control Management
- Writing and Editing
- Compliance
- Submission Preparation and Support
Our Writers and Editors can assist you with developing the content for your next proposal submission. Support includes:
- Resume formatting
- Writing non-technical sections
- Interviews with SMEs and drafting content for them to review
- Editing all proposal sections
- Compliance Review
Need a cover, organizational chart, or process diagram to differentiate your proposal from the rest. Our graphics team are well versed in proposal imagery and turn things around quickly. With access to stock images, Faunce Associates can create graphics from scratch or make updates to existing ones in your library.
**These services do not include full proposal management or writing (in the case of graphics support)
Pricing designed to fit your goals
Providing our clients with a scalable and flexible proposal process that fits their needs
Ask a
Proposal Manager
$350
2 hours to ask questions and discuss strategies for upcoming proposal efforts
Compliance
Review
$695*
✓ Review of proposal content
✓ Make recommendations
✓ Ensure compliance
* Assumes 4 hours of effort on a document with narrative content of no more 25 pages
Launch Right
Support Package
$575
✓ Compliance matrix
✓ Proposal schedule
✓ Tailored templates
Complete
Proposal Support
Custom Quote
✓ Manage complete proposal
✓ Proposal infrastructure
✓ Strategic planning
✓ Procurements preparation
✓ Mentoring of junior staff
✓ and more…
Knowledge Base
Coming Soon
Our goal is to empower people and help educate to make business easier to manage. Once a month, Faunce Associates’ Founder, Joy Faunce offers a Proposals/BD 101 online training class. It includes:
- BD/Proposals 101
- Proposal Writing
Subscribers to the knowledge base will also get 2 hours a month of strategic advisory services.
Have you taken the BD/Proposal 101 training and still want to learn more, we are developing additional training modules on various business development and proposal best practices. The list of training modules includes:
- Bid Decision Recommendation
- Knowledge Management and Proposal Infrastructure
- Building a compliance matrix
- Creating proposal graphics
- Developing your proposal tool-box
- Preparing your solution for proposal submission
- Responding to BAAs, SBIRs, STTRs
FAQs
We review the available solicitation information (past or drafts) and the hours we have used on similar bids to develop a level of effort. On average small proposals can take from 25-40 hours, and large complex bids make take 90-140 hours. The more you or your team are engaged in the process, the more likely we will need hours closer to the lower end of the range. For every bid, we only bill the hours worked.
Our expertise is the proposal process, and with a few exceptions, we are not in a position to create your solution. We have access to Solution Architects and other Subject Matter Experts through our network, and would be happy to bring them in to support your proposal effort.
As a general practice, Faunce Associates will only support one client per bid. The rare exceptions are GSA Schedule proposals and some of the scorecard based procurements. In those cases we are transparent and ensure that the teams working those bids are firewalled off from each. When you reach out for support, we will check our schedule of engagements to confirm our availability to support your effort. If we are not available, we will connect with another consultant (someone we know and trust) to get you the support you need.
We plan to provide new training content on a quarterly basis. The Business Development Mixtape will be an ongoing series with regular updates.
Who We Are
Established in 2013, Faunce Associates, LLC is a minority woman owned small business providing management consulting services to the Government Contracting (GovCon) community. We started with a simple goal in mind – to assist small businesses in establishing flexible and scalable business development, capture, and proposal support. Our team is comprised of experienced professionals focused on quality, developing solutions that help you achieve your goals. Since our founding, we have continued to grow and expand our services, talent, and the support we offer. With Commercial and Government divisions, Faunce Associates provides support to multiple organizations in the private and public sectors. One thing hasn’t changed, we still provide flexible and scalable consulting in support of your operational, research, and business development efforts.
What We Do – Proposal Therapy℠
In 2022, we are rebranding our business development, capture, and proposal services under our new line – Proposal Therapy℠. The mission remains the same – providing our clients with a scalable and flexible proposal process that fits their needs.
This refocusing of our work also allows us to offer support that demystifies proposal development and makes it more accessible to those companies that are just starting to build out their business development infrastructure.