Screen Guide (Search Results)

Find and Track Your RFPs

The top and bottom navigation bars: 

Regardless of what screen you're on the top and bottom navigation will generally look like this:

1. Click to access/switch between:
-Contracts
-SBIR
-Your profile
-Add your own opportunities
-Logout

2. Click to switch the presentation of your search results: Baseball card or list

3. See all your new opportunities

4. See your search results

5. Currently create a new search

6. See all the opportunities you/your team has liked

Search results (baseball card view)

Buttons

1. Click to access and edit your saved searches

NOTE: If you have selected a saved search that name of that search will show here

2. Click to change how we group and order your search results

3. The opportunity's title

4. The opportunity's abstract/executive summary

5. How many days till proposals are due (if applicable)

6. The estimated value of this opportunity

7. The customer who put out this opportunity

8. The opportunity type

9. Archive this opportunity (you can access it through your archived list)

10. See the previous opportunity

11. Share this opportunity via email or text (typically used to share with people outside your company)

12. See detailed information

Other functionality

Swipe left: To archive this opportunity

Swipe right: To add this opportunity to your team's liked list

Tap the title/text: To see detailed information

Search results (List view)

Buttons

1. Click to access and edit your saved searches

NOTE: If you have selected a saved search that name of that search will show here

2. Click to change how we group and order your search results

3. The opportunity's title

4. The opportunity type

5. When responses are due (if applicable)

Other functionality

Swipe left: To archive this opportunity

Swipe right: To add this opportunity to your team's liked list

Tap the title: To see detailed information

Opportunity details (Cost benefit analysis):

This section helps you make a rough assessment of whether you should pursue this opportunity

Calculators

1. The title of this opportunity

2. Your estimated chances of winning and the calculator to refine your estimate

3. The estimated total value of this opportunity and a calculator to refine the estimate

4. How many days till the response is due

5. The estimated length of the proposal

6. The estimated cost of pursuing this opportunity in financial terms

7. The estimated cost of pursuing this opportunity in time terms

For details on each calculator see HERE

 

Opportunity details (RFP Key Data):

Information

1. Whether this opportunity is set-aside and if so to what group

2. The opportunity's type

3. The NAICS code

4. The PSC code

5. The pricing regime for this opportunity (click to see the relevant text)

6. The evaluation regime for this opportunity (click to see the relevant text)

7. The customer that put out this opportunity

(click to see customer details)

8. Where the work will be done

(click to see location details)

9. The individuals to contact

(click to see details)

Opportunity details (Abstract):

Here is the executive summary for this opportunity.

If it is quite long click more to see all the text

Opportunity details (Team and Workshare):

We extract all the tasks that are defined in the RFP abstract and documents so that you can self assess whether you can deliver on that task

The number of tasks you assessed yes will appear on the left.  The total number of tasks found on the right

If you click on the the arrow you will go to the task analysis screen

1: The number of tasks self assessed yes over the total number of tasks identified

2: The estimate value of the work you self assessed yes (requires a total value assessment)

3: The task found in the document

4: If you do not have a path to deliver this task

5: If you can deliver this task through a partner

6: If you can deliver this task in-house

Opportunity details (Docs and description):

Any Word or PDF documents attached to this opportunity 

NOTE: you will need a Word/ PDF reader on your phone

Opportunity details (Action):

1: Engage in a discussion with the other people on your team

2: Share this opportunity via email or text (typically used to share with people outside your company)

3: Email a PDF with all the information on this opportunity to yourself

4: Go to Beta.SAM to see the original listing

Share

Discuss

Opportunity details (Categorize):

Assess how important this opportunity is and see how other people on your team have voted