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PROPOSAL WRITING

GDI Consulting offers a wide range of capture management and proposal support services. Our staff are highly skilled in assisting clients throughout the process of the RFP.
The comprehensive proposal services offered by our Company include :

• Proposal strategy and proposal management
• Proposal writing and proposal editing
• Conceptual art and graphic art support, and
• Proposal document production.

Management :
For each proposal project we assign a project manager whose jobs include:

• Developing the proposal outline,
• Analysis of the solicitation and ascertaining proposal requirements and proposal evaluation criteria,
• Estimating proposal time and staff requirements,
• Interfacing with client’s senior managers as necessary,
• Providing day-to-day oversight, and resolution of issues related to personnel, management, technical, cost and other relevant topics.

Staff :
Our proposal staff include proposal managers, proposal writers, and graphic artists who are all knowledgeable about the federal proposal process. They are all hands-on in the development of solution frameworks, proposal content, and graphics concepts.

CAPTURE MANAGEMENT

GDI Consulting can provide your company with an experienced capture manager to plan and lead your bid processes. At our company, capture management means doing everything necessary, from pre-REF phase all the way to bidding and post bidding phases, to ensure winning an opportunity.

We help you select the opportunity, assess and qualify it to be worth your resources, and then get you through the pre-RFP, bidding, and post-bidding phases using an experienced capture manager who will be tasked to your case. He/she in turn will head a team of experienced staff to manage the bidding process throughout its 3 phases. Our capture manager will in turn report to one your management personnel to get direction and support.

Benefits

This capture management service will provide the following benefits to your company:

• Raise overall win probability.
• Winning more business from fewer, better-qualified opportunities.
• Decrease costs.

Process:

The capture management process will include:

• Assess & qualify the opportunity.
• Get final go-ahead approval from the client
• Prepare the capture plan and capture team.
• Understand the customer’s requirements and objectives.
• Develop a preliminary solution and check with the customer
• Assess the competition.
• Develop a win strategy including the pricing strategy.
• Develop and execute a teaming strategy.
• Develop a risk strategy
• Prepare & submit the final proposal incorporating all information into it
• Follow-up

GRANT WRITING

GDI Consulting is a leader in providing the highest quality grant writing services. We have many years of experience of providing services to small businesses, non-profits, and governmental agencies, such as police and fire departments. We can meet your grant writing needs with a cost-effective solution, whether you need a team of consultants to produce a very complicated and extensive grant proposal for the Federal Government or state agencies, or a smaller but effective proposal for foundations.

Our repeat clients know they can work closely with one of our consultants for the entire length of a project at no additional cost and the quality of our work is guaranteed. All of our grant writers are highly proficient in industry standard writing skills and have core competencies across multiple industries. Our grant writers work together with editors, graphic designers and illustrators, researchers and subject matter experts, and analysts to produce winning grant proposals for our clients.

Sectors we have served are as follows:

• Educational Institutions
• Public Benefit
• Mental Health
• Human Services
• Housing and Shelter
• Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition
• Civil Rights and Social Action
• Healthcare
• Youth Development
• Religion Related
• Environment
• Art, Culture, and Humanities
• Community Improvement
• Animal Related
• Other

CONTRACT DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT

GDI Consulting will help you manage business contracts involving customers, vendors, employees, and more to gain greater visibility and control over your contract management. Our consultants will help you reduce the amount of time needed to create, negotiate, assess, execute, and approve contracts.

Our solutions turns even the most complex contract management issues into an efficient and structured process. You can reduce costs and achieve compliance in all your contract-related activities with help from our experienced consultants.

Functionalities:

Our consultants will provide the following services for your contract document management needs:

• Draft a contract using pre-built, approved templates.
• Initiate the contracting process via automated and self-service requests.
• Spot changes to terms, causes, and structured/unstructured language in the negotiation process.
• Store contracts in a secure central repository with advanced search functions.
• Be alerted to notifications, any milestones, and/or when changes are made and by whom.
• Analyze contract performance and create detailed reports for auditors and executives.

Supplementary Documents:

We also help you prepare all the supplementary documents that might be necessary in the execution of a contract and required by your customer such as:

• Quality Control Plans (specific to the contract)
• Safety Plans
• Periodic Reports
• Summaries
• REAs and Claims

CONTRACT SCHEDULING

It is a long time that the construction and defense industries have embraced the practice and use of critical path method (CPM) scheduling as a project management tool to plan, coordinate and schedule the execution of their projects. Through the identification of discrete work activities required to complete the project and the relationship of those activities to one another, CPM scheduling allows for the determination of what activities are critical to completing the project, those that must be performed on their early start and finish dates to avoid any delay to the project’s completion.

At the same time, for many contractors, having an experienced, full-time scheduler is simply not a reality. GDI Consulting exists to serve those contractors who need a detailed, impressive CPM schedule, but do not have the resources to create one themselves. Whether it is a proposal schedule as part of the RFP requirements, or an extensive baseline schedule coded to USACE standards, GDI Consulting can meet all of your needs and expectations. For many years, we have provided these services to a wide-range of clients, including government agencies, developers, owners, general contractors and subcontractors. We have vast experience on multiple project types including Buildings, Infrastructure, Utilities, and Defense related projects.

GDI Consulting helps its customer develop a well-conceived CPM schedule at the start of a project, in order to improve the coordination of all parties involved. A good CPM schedule graphically shows how all activities on the project are related, the duration of each activity, and the effect each activity has on the overall completion of the project. A well-conceived and updated CPM schedule will save significant time and money, and will help avoid or minimize claims on projects. Considering the benefits and potential savings of a good schedule, it is advantageous to have a professional scheduler develop and oversee your CPM scheduling. Leave this to GDI Consulting and concentrate on your other tasks.

Primavera

GDI Consulting uses Primavera P6 Professional Project Management software (now part of Oracle) which is the recognized standard for high-performance project management software. It is also the de facto standard used by USACE. We can also use any other software such as MS Project, CA PPM, and … as required by the client.

CONTRACT DESIGN MANAGEMENT

The essence of architectural and design management is to ensure that work on a project is cost effective, to achieve a balance between profitability and design quality.

Design Contract Coordination

The realistic evaluation of the design consultants’ capabilities and a coordinated delineation of their scope form a foundation for the design team’s work. As such, their individual contracts are more than legal agreements – they are guiding documents for their collaborative efforts and a fundamental component of their success as a team. GDI Consulting provides project analysis, consultant team evaluation, and detailed scope assignment to avoid many typical conflicts before they start.

Design Management

Active and objective design management of the Architect, Interior Designer, and other primary design consultants is required to meet the measurable goals of budget and schedule without compromising the equally important design expectations for the project. In addition to the Contract Coordination services mentioned above, Design Management services include confirming schedule and staffing, review of design and documentation planning, and active monitoring of the design effort from Concept Design through Construction – with proactive intervention as required.

Design Administration

All project teams are different, and in some cases the addition of organized support for a strong Owner, Operator or Project Manager may sufficiently complement an existing design team to assure maximum design value is achieved. GDI Consulting’s services active monitoring of design related communication and tasks, and regular communication with the Owner/Client and Project Manager regarding the progress of the design effort.

GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT EDITING / PROOFREADING

Government departments and agencies, and the external organizations that work with them, typically have high and specific requirements for the presentation of documents meant for internal consumption and for publication and wider distribution.

GDI Consulting understands the needs of government clients for conformity with particular stylistic rules, sensitivity to the use of inclusive language, and above all—for clear communication.

We are experienced in editing large government reports and strategic plans, taking them through from manuscript form to a fully proofread, designed document ready for publication. We also have extensive experience in editing policy and economic research documents as well as documents on governmental internal procedures.

Consistency

Our editors are experienced editors and proofreaders who abide with the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual instructions. They have done extensive previous work on government documents and are seasoned on the concerns and issues related to editing and/or proofreading sensitive government documents.

Customization

We can create custom service packages to help you meet your objectives. We can work to your deadlines, provide everything from substantive editing to light proofreading, apply your house style guide, and handle most major file formats, as well as hard copies.

Availability

GDI Consulting editors work around the clock, 365 days a year. This means if you are working on a tight deadline, our services can have your document back to you when needed without sacrificing quality.

Security

GDI Consulting understands the security and privacy policies involved in working on government documents. We have designed some of the strictest privacy policies accordingly.

GOVERNMENT RFI / RFQ / RPF PREPARATION

The Government uses standard vehicles of RFI/RFQ/RFP to purchase equipment and services and to promote competitive proposals among suppliers. Through this competitive process, suppliers offer a wide array of potential solutions and prices and compete with one another to win the business. Buyers evaluate the many different supplier solutions and pick the one that most closely fits their needs and budgets. GDI Consulting has extensive experience in helping government agencies in the preparation of these documents.

Request for Information (RFI)

Through preparation of the RFI, GDI Consulting helps government buyers to determine what is available from suppliers who respond to its requirements. It is also a way for the buyer to determine whether the requested requirements are reasonable and whether appropriate technology is available.

Request for Proposal (RFP)

GDI Consulting helps buyers prepare RFPs which are formal requests for proposals from suppliers, and such proposals often become part of the resulting contract. An RFP may be the result of a prepared RFI that tested the technical waters, or it may be written based on current knowledge of products and suppliers.

Request for Quote (RFQ)

An RFQ is essentially a shortened version of an RFP which does not require the supplier to provide a formal proposal. GDI Consulting helps the government buyers use pre-built templates to speed up the RFQ preparation. It also provides guidance and any research work needed for the preparation of the RFQ.

GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT

Faced with the results of a shrinking budget and the backlog of the economic downturn, government agencies must determine how to efficiently handle the life cycle of critical paper and electronic government documents, while taking strict compliance, records management and security requirements into consideration. GDI Consulting makes scanning government documents and the capture of electronic documents as well as other document management tasks quick and easy. This helps reduce costs and ensure government agencies stay in the black through automation of government documents. Our government document management services include:

Capture, Imaging, Storage and Retrieval

GDI Consulting provides high-quality data capture, imaging, storage and retrieval solutions. Inbound mail scanning services are about more than capturing and converting data into a digital image. They are about preserving and securing vital information.

Workflow Integration

We help government agencies to reduce the number of documents containing incorrect information, unfilled requirements or other problems, through the use of top of advanced technologies available.

Managed Print Services

A robust portfolio of Managed Print Services can be matched to the specific needs of government agencies on an enterprise scale. This helps you reduce costs, enhance employee productivity, secure data and documents, and achieve environmental sustainability goals.