If Your Proposal Makes the Agency Work Too Hard, You Have Only Yourself to Blame If You Don’t Win

Government Contracting Matters – If the first rule of proposal writing is “give the agency the information it asks for,” the most important corollary is “make the proposal easy to understand.” In other words, clarity and consistency is key; avoid anything in your proposal that might raise questions, confuse the evaluators, or otherwise detract from your message that you deserve to win the award.