Yes, I am still working on it. It's been about a month now, and we are on our fifth draft of the Technical Approach section. Today, my job is to generate the sixth draft. I am wondering if this will ever end. It has to end soon, because it's going to be sent out on December 3. By then, we will probably be on draft #10.
I actually thought that someone else would be responsible for putting everything together, but it looks like that will be my job as well. My scope-of-work called for me to spend 25 days on this proposal, and after today I will have 3 days left. In two years, I have never had to ask this client for additional days to complete an assignment, but I may have to do it this time. We'll see.
Here's how I'll be spending my time today:
- Organizing/reorganizing sections and subsections. I noticed yesterday that someone (who?) had incorporated an additional major section. Where in the world did this come from? The RFP calls for only three major sections, and now there are four. The new section contains stuff that should go in the Technical Approach section. If we don't put it there, we won't get any evaluation points for it.
- Figuring out how to get rid of some of repetitive information that is contained in the first two (or maybe three) subsections of the Technical Approach.
- Addressing the various comments made by what seems like 10 people who have reviewed this latest draft.
- Talking with my client about some of the things that I think are problematic in this draft and figuring out what to do about it.
- Filling in, reformatting and incorporating a bunch of charts and tables. We have quite a few of these because they don't count in the 45-page limitation for the entire proposal.
- Organizing and incorporating the Key Personnel section, which I have to also review and edit.
- Figuring out how to get the entire proposal down to 45 pages.
- Doing everything else.
Some fun, huh?
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