Freelance and consulting
Proposal & RFP Specialist — US government and public-sector contracting
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
I write proposals for US public-sector contracts — state, county, municipal and cooperative purchasing. Three years in the work, two of them owning the full lifecycle: solicitation analysis, compliance matrices, technical narratives, pricing and submission. Ten-plus awards contributed to, and the person the short-deadline bids get handed to.
You send me the solicitation; I send you back a submission-ready response. Requirement extraction, compliance matrix, technical and management narratives, forms, and the final assembled package checked against every instruction in the RFP.
Before you spend three weeks on a response: a read of the solicitation that tells you what it actually requires, which mandatory criteria you do or do not meet, how the evaluation is weighted, and whether this one is worth your time.
A response you have already written, read the way an evaluator reads it - scored against the stated criteria, with every unanswered requirement and every unsupported claim listed before it costs you the award.
The machinery rather than the document: a bid pipeline and tracker your team will actually maintain, a boilerplate and past-performance library worth reusing, and an AI-assisted drafting workflow that survives contact with a deadline.
Two sister firms bidding US public-sector staffing and IT services work across state, county, municipal and cooperative purchasing vehicles, with no single person owning a response end to end.
Bid status lived in people's heads and in scattered spreadsheets. Nobody could say with confidence what was in flight, what was at risk, or what had been won and lost.
Every response started closer to a blank page than it needed to. The same company background, the same past performance, the same approach sections were being rewritten from memory each time.
The quickest route is a couple of sentences about what you need. A reply usually follows within two working days.