Writing a good proposal is very important and I will absolutely make sure to blog on best practices. I know businesses also sometimes come up against the “experience” issue too and have some ideas on this. For one, you might try to team or partner as a sub-contractor with a bigger company. If you are newly in business, you will probably qualify as a small business and bigger contractors are often looking to partner with small businesses to make their proposals more attractive. I’ll write some more on this too. The main thing is you are looking into this important channel – essential for any small business to seek to work for government. I hope I can write some useful posts for you in the future.

What industry is your business in?

Stuart

I am newly in business, and have interest in doing business with the government, it would be helpful if you could please blog about how to write winning Proposals for government contracts. Maybe even provide some links for finding out more of a direction on where to start, what they require, and what their actually looking for.

And for people in my same situation (New Business Owners), when it come to bidding on government contracts, I am coming across most contracts which require at least two years of previous government contract work experience. How would I go about getting that experience, or could I work with what I have?

I agree knowledge is power. Experienced bidders know the questions to ask in order to gain that knowledge. They know that they can get hold of a copy of the budget either by looking on the website or asking. This isn’t “inside knowledge” as it is available to all – they just know how to get it. As I said in my post, first time bidders don’t do their homework.

Thanks for the comment.

Stuart