How to Organize to Win Every Task Order on an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract (IDIQ

Feb 14
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2012

Olessia Smotrova-Taylor

Olessia Smotrova-Taylor

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Everyone who has been around IDIQs for a while know that it gets much harder to win them each month that goes by, but there are eight fundamental steps to create a bid engine.

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Those who have been around IDIQs for a while know that your chances of winning a task order diminish with each month that passes by,How to Organize to Win Every Task Order on an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract (IDIQ Articles and each competition where you lose or fail to participate. This is why it is critically important that you set up a bid engine that will help you ramp up quickly, and become less reactive in responding to task orders. Use these eight fundamental steps to create a bid engine:

  • Designate responsible personnel and identify resources with roles unique to task order management organizations.
  • Configure tools for collaboration, information storage and retrieval, and speeding up all tasks from solution development to editing.
  • Develop a task order manual that spells out all the standard operating procedures for the IDIQ.
  • Set up processes for business development, mini-capture, marketing, short-fuse proposal development, and maintenance of your bid engine.
  • Set up the website to market your IDIQ.
  • Set up a properly referenced and tagged collateral library to speed up task order responses.
  • Train and involve operations to help you develop business and prepare task order proposals.
  • Master tight writing to pack punch into your page-limited responses.

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