Competitive Analysis: Black Hat & Price to Win (PTW) with AI Insights (On Demand)

$995.00

Master real skills, strategies, and tools in 2 days to consistently prevail over competition and win Government contracts

Right now, you can invest in new skills and tools that will pay off in contracts won and help you succeed in your business.

This course will give you a proven methodology that, combined with your diligent efforts, is sure to yield success in winning highly competitive Government contracts.

Description

Day 1

Module 1: Introduction
  • Introductions and learning objectives
  • Introduction to capture and overview of the capture process to offer you a big-picture perspective
  • Overview of the case study
Module 2: Laying the Groundwork for Competitive Analysis in the Capture Process
  • What if there is no competitive analysis and PTW?
  • Competitive analysis elements.
  • ​Ethics of competitive intelligence and the information you must not touch.
  • ​Four steps for developing a repository to collect knowledge on competitive intelligence.
  • ​Other competitive analysis tips.
Module 3: Identifying the List of Competitors and Preparing for the Black Hat
  • Techniques for determining the list of prime contractors.
  • ​Techniques for overcoming challenges in determining the teaming partners.
  • ​A typical Black Hat setup.
  • ​A sample Black Hat agenda.
  • ​Black Hat groups organization.
  • ​Determining Government customer’s hot buttons leveraging AI.
  • ​Analyzing the potential Source Selection Board members.
  • ​Competitive analysis overview process as part of capture planning.
  • ​Developing viable competitor profiles.

Exercises: Determine a competitor list for the case study; capture the viable competitor profiles.

Module 4: Performing the Competitive Analysis
  • Qualitative questions to answer about each competitor: the most useful capture information.
  • ​Competitor analysis: company information gathering using AI.
  • ​Mining a variety of data sources for relevant competitive intelligence on Government contractors using various LLMs.
  • ​SWOT analysis leveraging AI.
  • ​Determining competitors’ postulated win strategies with AI.
  • ​Ranking competitors individually and as an aggregate competitive field analysis.

​Exercise: Go through the competitive analysis steps and develop competitor rankings against the home team.

Module 5: Developing a Competitive Analysis-Based Win Strategy
  • Comparing competitors with the “home” team’s win strategy, augmented with AI insights.
  • ​Developing the resulting action items and win strategies applicable during your overall capture process.

​Exercise: Devise the home team’s win strategy based on the Black Hat results and determine the resulting strategic action items.

Day 2

Module 6: Price to Win Principles and Process
  • Why Price to Win?
  • ​Understanding the tradeoff between value and price.
  • ​Understanding the best value continuum in Government proposal evaluation.
  • ​PTW development process steps.
Module 7: Gathering Information for the PTW Effort
  • Mobilizing information sources for situational assessment of the PTW, including AI research tools and techniques.
  • ​Determining the funding budget for the target contract.
  • ​Analyzing customer trends and behaviors and how this information impacts your PTW analysis decisions.
  • ​Analyzing your competitors’ financial decisions and trends.
  • ​Filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for cost proposals.

​Exercise: Gather information to prepare for the PTW analysis.

Module 8: Performing the PTW Analysis

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  • Identifying the price to compete.
  • ​Developing a solution-based PTW.
  • ​Pricing competitors’ solutions based on Black Hat findings and information gathered specifically for the PTW effort.
  • ​Pricing competitors’ offerings per the RFP and competitors’ postulated win strategies.

​Exercise: Develop a solution for a proposal segment and document in a capture plan.

Module 9: Mastering the Labor Rate Analysis for Government Proposals
  • The process for performing a labor rate analysis for Government proposals.
  • ​The process, tips, and tricks for matching labor categories including AI tools.
  • ​Determining the competitors’ wrap rates.
  • ​When and how to use GSA rates as data points.

​Exercise: Practice labor category matching and labor rate analysis.

Module 10: The Next Steps for PTW: Developing Your Pricing Strategy
  • Continuously updating the PTW model to iterate your solution.
  • Creating the win.
  • Course recap and summary.