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Free bid/no-bid diagnostic

Should this opportunity get more of your team’s time?

Answer eight practical questions before proposal work accelerates. This check surfaces administrative uncertainty; it does not decide whether your company should bid.

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1. Can your team access the official solicitation and every published amendment?Must pass

Use the issuer’s official source—not a repost, alert email, or search-result summary.

2. Have you confirmed the mandatory eligibility, registration, and experience conditions?Must pass

A single unmet mandatory condition can make the rest of the effort irrelevant.

3. Does the requested work align with capabilities and past performance your team can support?

Treat an adjacent capability as uncertainty until the responsible owner confirms it.

4. Can the team meet the deadline with time for review, approval, and submission?Must pass

Count internal review and approval time, not only document-production time.

5. Have the required forms, attachments, page limits, signatures, and submission route been identified?

Administrative omissions can defeat strong content.

6. Has an owner confirmed the delivery capacity, partners, and dependencies needed if you win?

Proposal readiness and performance readiness are separate checks.

7. Does the likely contract value justify the proposal effort and delivery risk?

Include proposal labor, outside costs, margin, cash timing, and opportunity cost.

8. Is one accountable decision owner prepared to accept, mitigate, or reject the remaining risks?

The diagnostic informs the decision; a named owner still makes it.

    Decision boundary

    This free check is an administrative screening aid, not legal, technical, financial, procurement, eligibility, certification, or submission advice. Your organization retains every pursue-or-pass decision, representation, approval, signature, and final submission.

    Always verify the controlling notice, solicitation, and amendments at the issuing agency’s official source. Federal opportunities are commonly published through SAM.gov Contract Opportunities; federal acquisition rules are published at Acquisition.gov.