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Improving Offer Strategies,
Business Development Capture and Proposal Management for Complex Proposals
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Octant’s
Enterprise Management Suite for Proposals™, formerly
known as Enterprise Proposal Management Suite™ is a business
development and proposal knowledge
management tool focused on executing a
repeatable and effective strategy to create and manage your
business development and proposal efforts. Ask yourself:
- Do you find yourself caught in the swirling waters of business
information?
- Do your proposal authors spend a considerable amount of time
to search and retrieve content from past successful proposals?
- Is it difficult to collaborate across teams to make proposals?
- Do you have
reliable means to track capture and proposal pipelines?
- Do you face problems of losing critical corporate information?
- Do you clone old sales proposals and expect to win?
- Do you need to go beyond document management features of
Microsoft® SharePoint® or EMC Documentum®, or other 'web-based team
collaboration' systems?
If your answer is ‘yes,’ you need to look for better sales and proposal management
system. Navigate through the sea of information
using Octant’s Enterprise Management Suite for Proposals™ and
Enterprise Management Suite for Proposals™, SharePoint Edition.
Octant’s
suite improves the quality of
work and life for the capture management, contracts and proposal teams and provides them
with the tools to manage visibility throughout the organization.
The suite manages Request For Proposals
(RFP),
Request for Information (RFI), Request for Quote (RFQ) or Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ)
content. It also allows the proposal author to
enjoy creating, writing and presenting major business and
technical proposals while at the same time, winning new business
in state, federal and commercial business sectors. The
Enterprise Management Suite for Proposals™ removes collaboration
obstacles and provides real business value in day-to-day
operations of proposal management.
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Salient Features |
- Provides business development, sales and proposal management personnel with user-friendly views of sales and proposal pipelines
- Enables quick access to critical proposal-related information
and data
- Shares proposal-related documents as it moves through the
proposal and approval processes
- Facilitates the creation, management and control of proposal
templates, letters, models and outlines
- Provides virtual proposal workspaces that enable virtual proposal
teams to collaborate effectively and securely across functions,
units, organizations and locations
- Organizes proposal related information in logical and readily
searchable structures
- Safeguards the confidentiality of proprietary information
within and across the various tiers of the proposal management
team
- Uses task assignments and activity calendars, and
advanced search features, to support collaborative
communications within proposal management team and sub teams
- Uses state-of-the-art workflow processes to monitor and manage
proposal and partnered teams
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Key Benefits |
- Work successfully with Proposal Managers, Proposal
Coordinators, Account Managers, Capture Managers, Marketing,
Public Relations and Business Development Managers to develop
and respond to RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs
- Create, write and
manage proposals as needed while coordinating resources
across multiple departments in the organization
- Be
accountable for the submittal, reviews and oral
presentations
- Remain in synch with operations, delivery,
sales, technical teams and management teams to oversee the
complete proposal management process
- Collect information
for needs assessments, customer requirements, risk
management and oversee technical and estimating accuracy
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Oversee the full RFP, RFQ, RFI and IDIQ lifecycle including
development of compliance and specifications to the
documentation, delivery and support of the final proposal
- Generate and manage questions, proposals
responses, oral augments and presentations for each phase of the
proposal process
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