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    Platform · 05 Respond

    Generate the entire bid package.

    From proposal volumes to government form filling, every response is grounded in the solicitation and your organizational knowledge.

    Bid checklistDue in 12 days
    Volume I, Technical25 pages
    Volume II, Past performance3 references
    SF 33 + reps & certs6 forms
    Pricing narrativein review
    Drafting Volume I
    Filling SF 33Solicitation no.N0018926R0042CAGE / UEI7QM48 · JK4M...Offer valid for120 days
    Every claim grounded in your approved content

    Every surface it covers

    Each of these is a page of its own, with the detail for that market.

    Respond To RFPs

    Generate first-pass proposal content for RFP responses using your company context.

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    Respond To RFQs

    Move from quote request to draft response faster with AI-assisted proposal writing.

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    Draft structured RFI responses without rebuilding your positioning from scratch.

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    Why this is hard

    A compliant bid package is far more than the technical volume, and teams lose on the assembly rather than the argument.

    The package is mostly not prose

    Forms, representations and certifications, past-performance write-ups, pricing attachments and supporting documents, each in the format the solicitation demands.

    Format errors are fatal

    A missing form or a volume over its page limit is rejected without being scored. The work that prevents that is mechanical, and it is where the last week goes.

    A blank page is expensive

    Four to six weeks of team effort is normal for a mid-sized federal solicitation, and much of it is spent restating things the organisation has already written down somewhere.

    What Respond does

    Beyond the proposal

    • Form filling, attachments, and supporting documents included.

    Grounded in you

    • Built from your approved content and past performance.

    One workspace

    • Your team collaborates without leaving samsearch.

    What you get out of it

    A compliant first draft

    • Structured to Section L, addressing each requirement, written from your approved content and past performance rather than invented.

    Grounded in two sources and no others

    • The solicitation itself and your own library. Every claim traces to a document you own or a requirement in the RFP.

    The forms filled

    • SF-1449 and SF-33, reps and certs, and the solicitation-specific attachments: the part of the package that has nothing to do with writing.

    Compliance tracked as you write

    • The matrix stays live against the draft, so what is unanswered is visible before the week it is due.

    Drafted against the matrix, grounded in your content

    Generation on its own is the least interesting half. What makes a draft usable is what it is written from.

    ProposalVolume I, TechnicalGrounded, not invented
    Compliance matrix
    L.3.1Technical approach
    L.3.2Key personnel
    L.3.3Transition plan
    M.2Past performance
    Drafting L.3.3
    Every claim traces to your approved content or a requirement in the solicitation.

    Two sources and nothing else

    The solicitation itself, and your organisation's approved content. Every claim traces back to a document you own or a requirement in the RFP.

    Structured to Section L

    The draft follows the instructions and addresses each extracted requirement, so evaluators find what they are scoring where they expect it.

    The win themes are still yours

    It cannot supply the discriminators, which come from knowing the customer. It gets you to a compliant first draft rather than a blank page.

    The package is more than the writing

    Most of what sinks a bid is a missing form, a volume over its page limit, or an attachment nobody owned.

    Bid packageTracked to submissionDue in 6 days
    5 of 7 complete
    Volumes
    Volume I, Technical28 of 30 pp
    Volume II, Past performance3 references
    Volume III, Pricein review
    Forms
    SF 33, solicitation and awardsigned
    Representations and certifications6 of 6
    Attachments
    Key personnel resumes4 roles
    Small business subcontracting plannot started
    One item unowned with six days left, visible now rather than on the final weekend.

    Volumes, forms and attachments tracked together

    SF 33 and SF 1449, representations and certifications, key personnel resumes and the solicitation-specific attachments. The part of a bid that has nothing to do with writing.

    Completeness is visible early

    What is still unowned shows up weeks out rather than on the final weekend, which is when it is still cheap to fix.

    Ask the solicitation while you write

    The questions that come up mid-draft are the ones that change a paragraph, and they need answering in seconds.

    SammyReading 5 attachmentsEvery answer cited
    You

    Do we meet the eligibility criteria, and what is the page limit on Volume I?

    Sammy

    Yes. This is a total small business set-aside under NAICS 561210 and your profile is registered small under that code. Volume I is capped at 30 pages, raised from 25 by Amendment 0002.

    Section L p.41Attachment 1 p.12Amendment 0002 p.3
    Amendment 0002, p.3

    “Paragraph L.3.1 is revised to read: the Technical Volume shall not exceed thirty (30) pages, excluding…”

    Answered against the current version

    Including the latest amendment, so a page limit raised last week does not get missed because the draft started against the original.

    With the phrase it came from

    Each answer links to the source and highlights the sentence, so a claim in your draft can be traced to the requirement behind it.

    Frequently asked questions

    Can AI write a government proposal?
    It can produce a compliant, grounded first draft: structured to Section L, addressing each requirement, and written from your approved content and past performance rather than invented. What it cannot do is supply the win themes and the discriminators, which come from your team's understanding of the customer. The value is in removing the blank page, not the thinking.
    How do you keep an AI-written proposal from making things up?
    By grounding it in two sources and nothing else: the solicitation itself and your organisation's approved content. Every claim should trace back to a document you own or a requirement in the RFP, and be checkable. Generation that draws on a general model's world knowledge is how a false past-performance claim reaches a contracting officer.
    What documents make up a government bid package?
    Typically a technical volume, a management volume, past performance, a price volume, and the standard forms and representations: SF-1449 or SF-33, reps and certs, and any solicitation-specific attachments. Section L specifies which are required and how each must be formatted; anything missing can be grounds for rejection.
    How long does it take to write a government proposal?
    For a mid-sized federal solicitation, four to six weeks of team effort is normal, with much of it spent on assembly, formatting and compliance checking rather than writing. Automating the mechanical share is what lets a small team bid more than a handful of opportunities a year.

    Automate the full GovCon cycle

    Each stage runs off the same profile, the same documents and the same pipeline. Click any stage to see how it works.

    • 01Influence
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    • 06Finance

    See the whole cycle in one platform.

    Book a 20-minute demo and we will walk your team through the stage that is costing you the most.

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