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With low bid-to-win ratios among the most significant challenges for construction companies, making sound pursuit decisions and crafting winning proposal strategies is critical. Given the significant complexity and cost in responding to RFPs, the time, money, and effort your construction company is investing can add up quickly.
Asking the right questions and looking at the right data can help you identify which projects to pursue to maximize your win rate and grow your company’s revenue. These factors are crucial for long-term success.
Focus on the right projects by asking the right questions
Whether you have an established go/no go process or a less formal one, defining specific pursuit criteria and systematizing approvals can help ensure that you invest in winnable projects and increase your win rate while enabling you to track related data over time.
Asking questions like the following can help you determine if an opportunity is winnable and is the right fit for your company:
By digitizing your go/no-go process with tools like construction360 CRM, you can make informed decisions and start building a history to further fine-tune your process. Taking the time and putting forth the effort to thoroughly consider and document key elements of an opportunity will provide the best chance to ultimately win the work. And using a standardized approach, you can train your team to master the art of pursuing work that makes sense for your firm and delivers the profit and results you’re looking for from your projects.
Leveraging relationships and experience
Tapping into your company’s experience and relationships is a key ingredient in winning more proposals. When you’re proposing new work, the extent of your experience working with that client and other relevant parties in the project, like architects and engineers, as well as the strength of those relationships can be a major deciding factor in winning the work you’re pursuing. If you haven’t worked with a particular company in the past, and your relationships with key parties are not well-established, your chances of winning might be low enough that you should consider moving on and focusing your time and resources on other opportunities.
construction360 provides objective pursuit strength indicators that look at your company’s history working with these parties and the strength of your existing relationships to present pursuit scores that help you evaluate how well-positioned you are to win the proposal. This strength indicator can provide additional insights into whether or not it makes sense to invest in the proposal process.
Creating winning proposals
Once you’ve put the work into determining which opportunities to pursue, it is equally important to present your company in the strongest way possible in your proposals. Referencing the right project experience and highlighting the most relevant qualifications of your team requires visibility into your firm’s project history as well as any attribute you want the ability to search on to identify similar projects to reference in your proposals. With construction360 CRM, you have access to an easily searchable centralized repository of all of your project history and experience as well as your staff, their qualifications, and if they are willing to relocate.
A dynamic proposal document generator provided by construction360 can then help you create customized project cut sheets and employee resumes quickly and in multiple formats, ensuring you’re highlighting the most relevant experience and qualifications for the work you’re pursuing.
Additionally, your marketing team can quickly see proposal results and project outcomes and use this data to predict the chance of future success and adapt proposal strategies to win more bids.
Utilizing win/loss analytics
Tracking win/loss decisions and the reasons for those outcomes can help you gain greater insight into your company’s strengths and weaknesses within specific clients, markets, delivery models, and services, as well as how you fare against your competitors. Understanding why an opportunity was lost can give you the information you need to improve and present your company better in the future.
construction360 tracks proposal outcomes and feedback to help you analyze where and why you win or lose an opportunity. You can use this data to make more informed decisions and strengthen your pursuit strategies.
Increase your win rate and revenue with construction360
A “numbers game” strategy—submitting as many proposals as possible and hoping some will win—is not the way to boost revenue, especially considering the expense that comes with each pursuit. Access to the right information to make informed decisions, presenting your company in the best light, and adapting your proposal strategies based on readily available information can make the difference between winning and losing more work and meeting your firm’s growth objectives.
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