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Proposal Development
Read this data sheet to see how VisibleThread can drive compliance and better outcomes.
Facilitating winning Bids
Can a bid compliance tool help drive winning bids? See how compliance and traceability can be facilitated by an automated solution.
VisibleThread automatically pinpoints complex and risky language in your proposal documents.
Adopting VisibleThread means you can analyze documents and identify poor content in minutes.
The Result:
- Massive time savings
- Better team efficiency
- Improved probability of win.
* based on a survey of 35 VisibleThread early adopters conducted in May 2009.
How does it work?
Improve Clarity with Plain Language Analysis
Flag obtuse text in document by heading.
Long sentences often mask multiple distinct propositions. For proposal responses, they make the reviewers job difficult. Splitting them flushes out ambiguity and enhances clarity.
Passive language (noun preceding verb) lacks strength and often assumes an implicit ‘actor’. Re-phrasing passive language yields clear, actionable statements.
Eliminate Waffle and Reduce Legal Risk with Bad Language Analysis
Run a review scan that immediately picks up language that weakens credibility, raises legal questions or affects the delivery of your solution. Proposals containing sloppy, ‘waffle’ or legally risky language put the win in jeopardy. Examples like; ‘we are delighted to’, ‘we will ensure’ or ‘we are expert’ should be scrubbed and replaced.
Rainbow review teams can perform a highly efficient automated scan and save manual cycles. Real-time feedback to authors in MS Word also is provided.
Speed ‘Go / No Go’ Decisions with Discovery
With ‘discovery’, VisibleThread immediately displays the most frequently occurring concepts (nouns) and their distribution across MS Word, Excel or PDF documents.
This means that for Business Development and Bid Managers, ‘go / no go’ decisions are informed by reviewing key concepts in SOWs or RFPs. Don’t waste money chasing the bid if it is not aligned with internal competencies or your competitor has shaped the bid.
Validate Responsiveness with ‘Win Theme’ Checks
Bid Managers need to ensure that win themes are reinforced in prioritized section of the response.Simply run the win theme scan, VisibleThread highlights gaps or low density of win theme language by section.
Running a scan on the document with categorized win theme language allows Bid Managers ensure that the response does not lose focus when multiple authors are collaborating.
Create First Cut Compliance Matrix in Minutes
Perform an obligation scan, checking for all instances of ‘will’, ‘must’, ‘shall’ in the SOW or RFP. With one-click, you can generate a first pass of an Excel Compliance Matrix.
This means that for Business Development and Bid Managers, establishing exactly what must be adhered to is crystal clear and saves hours of manual effort. Risk of missing obligations is lowered. If you spot anomalies you can report back to issuing authority, underscoring your professionalism and competence.
Support Efficient Team Reviews
Collaborate with distributed teams in the context of the document.
Adding ‘in context’ comments allows you to view commentary side by side with the document content. Comments can be categorized using rich color coding meaning that concerns, tasks and risks can be clearly called out for team review. Once comments are completed or replied to, they can be marked as closed.
Team members are always aware of what is happening, communicating in a way that is visible to all.
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