Does three equal a slew? I don't know, but very soon I will be working on three proposals, all of which are re-competes for my clients. For those of you who don't know, this means that each client currently holds the grant or contract that is being put out for bid -- they are re-competing for it. For two of these re-competes, the clients have been performing the work for the past five years. On the other re-compete, the client has worked on the contract for three years.
Re-competes are usually very important to bidders because they don't want to lose the work. In some cases, they can't financially afford to lose the grant or contract because it is the only one they have, or because it brings in the bulk of their money. So keeping the grant or contract often requires a good amount of work on the proposal -- sometimes more work than if they were bidding on it from scratch.
Fortunately for me, I have worked with each of these three clients before. In fact, I worked on each of the previous proposals for all three of these bids. So I am familiar with both the clients and the type of work that they will be bidding on for the re-competes. This definitely helps with respect to the learning curve.
But for today, I am going to try to finalize the index for the manual (sigh).
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