A known cost for capturing work, and for keeping it.
Flat fees, designed with a small business in mind. You know, up front, what your budget for new business and contract management will be. No hourly clock. No share of your award.
The big proposal firms are priced for large contractors. Most small businesses sit out.
Those firms are set up to serve large contractors, and their fees reflect it. For a small business, that puts expert proposal-development help out of reach, so the pursuit of new work either gets done off the side of someone's desk or does not get done at all. We put that same expertise within reach, so your bids compete like a big firm's, without the big-firm price.
Three ways to engage.
Flat pricing, developed with a small business in mind. Pick the option that fits what you need.
Growth Retainer
Your outsourced proposal and contract administration support, all of it under one monthly fee.
- Unlimited proposals through the year
- Go / no-go review of your realistic chances
- Sources sought responses, capability statements, and draft-requirement feedback
- Solicitation questions and RFIs
- Compliance matrix, annotated outline, and submission timeline
- Full, responsive proposal: technical, past performance, and required volumes
- Staffing plans, resumes, teaming and joint venture documentation, forms, and certifications
- Scenario and sample task responses
- Price volume: rates, indirect pools, CLIN schedule, basis of estimate, and realism
- Section L and Section M compliance review, with staged quality reviews
- Revisions, however many drafts it takes
- Clarifications, negotiations, final proposal revision, and debrief
- Correspondence across your contracts, drafted for your representative to sign and send
- Weekly and monthly status reports
- Performance schedule: built and kept current
- Schedule, CDRL, and deliverable tracking
- Compliance and requirement monitoring across clauses and standards
- Modification logs and modification tracking
- Subcontract administration: schedule, budget, and flow-down clauses
- Subcontractor deliverables mapped to your prime CDRL dates
- Subcontractor invoice review against the subcontract and actual progress
- Limitations on subcontracting tracking under FAR 52.219-14
- Funding and burn tracking with limitation of funds alerts
- Invoicing support through government payment systems
- CPARS performance record support
- Custom correspondence, reports, and documentation required by your contracts
- Ad-hoc support and documentation on request, tailored to your needs and contract requirements
- Contract closeout
- One predictable monthly fee
- No hourly clock and no share of your award
- Capacity that scales with your pipeline
- We support your existing staff, not replace them
- A go / no-go review before you commit
Or engage a single service on its own.
Standalone Proposal
One complete, submission-ready proposal for a single solicitation.
- Go / no-go review of your realistic chances
- Sources sought responses, capability statements, and draft-requirement feedback
- Solicitation questions and RFIs
- Compliance matrix, annotated outline, and submission timeline
- Full, responsive proposal: technical, past performance, and required volumes
- Staffing plans, resumes, teaming and joint venture documentation, forms, and certifications
- Scenario and sample task responses
- Price volume: rates, indirect pools, CLIN schedule, basis of estimate, and realism
- Section L and Section M compliance review, with staged quality reviews
- Revisions included in the flat fee, however many drafts it takes
- Clarifications, negotiations, final proposal revision, and debrief
Contract Administration & Compliance
Stay on schedule and in compliance after you win.
- Correspondence across your contracts, drafted for your representative to sign and send
- Weekly and monthly status reports
- Performance schedule: built and kept current
- Schedule, CDRL, and deliverable tracking
- Compliance and requirement monitoring across clauses and standards
- Modification logs and modification tracking
- Subcontract administration: schedule, budget, and flow-down clauses
- Subcontractor deliverables mapped to your prime CDRL dates
- Subcontractor invoice review against the subcontract and actual progress
- Limitations on subcontracting tracking under FAR 52.219-14
- Funding and burn tracking with limitation of funds alerts
- Invoicing support through government payment systems
- CPARS performance record support
- Custom correspondence, reports, and documentation required by your contracts
- Ad-hoc support and documentation on request, tailored to your needs and contract requirements
- Contract closeout
The market, for reference. These are not our fees.
You are not carrying five salaries. You are gaining expert capabilities.
Staff the work yourself and you carry, at a minimum, five seats all year, whether or not the pipeline is full. With us, you get dedicated, expert support, tailored to your pursuit of new work and to the contracts you already hold, for a flat, fixed fee, not a full-time payroll.
Our dedicated support is steadier than any direct hire, too. When an in-house person leaves, they take their experience and knowledge of your bids and contracts with them. Because we handle your proposals and your contract files, that knowledge never leaves and continues to grow as we support more of your bids and contract administration.
| Role | Avg. salary | Loaded cost |
|---|---|---|
| Proposal Manager | $100,000 | $135,000 |
| Proposal Writer | $96,000 | $130,000 |
| Contract Administrator | $110,000 | $149,000 |
| Compliance / Quality Assurance Specialist | $85,000 | $115,000 |
| Subcontract Administrator | $65,000 | $88,000 |
| Total | $456,000 | $617,000 / year |
2026 market averages, not our fees. Loaded cost includes payroll taxes, benefits, paid time off, software, training, and workspace, typically 35 to 40 percent above base salary.
Our pricing is provided on request as a flat firm-fixed-price fee. Market figures are 2026 industry ranges from published GovCon consultant guides, buyer reports, and the Deltek Clarity Government Contracting Study, and are not a bid. This page is informational and does not constitute a binding offer.