Solicitation Review Toolkit
Review the Opportunity Before It Becomes an Obligation.
A practical three-gate process that helps small federal contractors screen opportunities, align the proposed solution and price, and reconcile the final offer before submission.
Includes 5 Toolkit components | Single-company internal-use license included
GET THE TOOLKIT - $129
Proposal Problems Often Begin
Before Proposal Writing
An opportunity enters the pipeline. The proposal clock starts. Technical begins shaping the solution. Pricing starts building the model. Teammates provide inputs and commitments. Assumptions are made. Questions are discussed. Amendments arrive. Before long, important information can become scattered across emails, spreadsheets, meetings, proposal drafts, pricing files, and individual memories.
The Solicitation Review Toolkit gives your team one controlled place to keep the material facts, assumptions, unresolved issues, required actions, owners, and management decisions visible and connected while there is still time to do something about them.
Three Gates. Three Different Decisions.
The Solicitation Review Toolkit is built around three review points, each designed to answer a different question at the right moment in the pursuit.
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Can we compete credibly
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Can we perform it?
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Does it make business sense?
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Scope and deliverables
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Assumptions and dependencies
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Pricing and Teammate alignment
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Final Consistency check
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Unresolved issues and conditions
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Ready to submit?
The Three-gate structure helps your team focus on the right questions at the right time instead of trying to solve everything at once.
What's included in the Toolkit
Five practical components designed to help your team apply the three-gate solicitation review process on real opportunities
Together, these components give your organization a practical system for screening opportunities, aligning the proposed deal, and reconciling the final offer before submission.
This Is Not Another Checklist
A Checklist usually answers one question: Did someone review it?
The Solicitation Review Toolkit goes further
The objective is not to prove that somebody looked at the solicitation. The objective is to help the company make a better decision about the offer it is preparing to make.
We Already Have Enough Work to Do on a Proposal.
A practical response to the most common objection: the team is already busy, and nobody wants another document to maintain.
Who Is This For?
Designed for Contractors already evaluating and responding to real Government or Prime-Contractor opportunities.
Developed from Decades of Federal Contracting Experience
Practical. Real-World. Built for the People Who Do The Work.
The Solicitation Review Toolkit was created by Tim Magnusson, CPCM drawing on approximately four decades of experience in federal contracting, proposals, pricing, subcontracting, compliance, and executive leadership. It reflects a practical objective:
Help companies understand the deal they are preparing to offer before it becomes an obligation.
Frequently Asked Questions
A few practical questions about using the Solicitation Review Toolkit.
Will this add more work to an already demanding proposal process?
Do we have to complete every field in the Workbook?
Is this just another solicitation checklist?
Does the Toolkit replace our compliance matrix or existing proposal process?
When should we use the three decision gates?
Can multiple people in our company use the Toolkit?
Can you help our company implement the Toolkit or review a live solicitation?
Review the Opportunity Before It Becomes an Obligation
Get the Solicitation Review Toolkit and give your team a practical system for screening opportunities, identifying issues, and making better decisions
Solicitation Review Toolkit
$129 - One-Time Purchase
- Solicitation Review Workbook - Editable Word Document
- Quick Start Guide
- Three-Gate Decision Reference
- Completed Workbook Example
- 20 Minute Video Walkthrough
- Single-Company internal-use license
Immediate access through ContractsClassroom after purchase.
