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^{Guest Post by Mitch Reed, DBA, CPP, Fellow APMP} 

A Quick Refresher

In our first blog post, we asked the question, “Does the customer / contractor relationship prior to solicitation [RFP] release impact the award decision?” The answer is, yes – when certain...

^{Guest Post by Mitch Reed, DBA, CPP, Fellow APMP} 

“People do business with those they know and trust."  

This quote is as valid for the government market as it is for the commercial market. But how do you establish yourself as someone known and trusted by the customer...

^{Guest Post by Mitch Reed, DBA, CPP, Fellow APMP}

Dr. Mitch Reed set out to answer this question:

Does the customer/contractor relationship prior to solicitation [RFP] release impact the award decision? 

The response to this question matters to Business Development (BD) professionals...

How many times have you been heads down in a proposal and wished you had more hours in a day to complete the numerous tasks and action items that arise? Plenty, right? Even the best planned and staffed proposals will encounter a barrage of issues that demand attention, action, or elasticity from...

When responding to an RFP for a contract with the U.S. government, corporations have to submit written proposals that clearly show that they can deliver the best value at the lowest risk to the government. Proving that your corporation is the best value and lowest risk to the government...

“In 525,600 minutes. How do you measure a year in a life?” is the wonderful question posed in the song “Seasons of Love” from Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning revolutionary rock opera, Rent. We all have the same amount of time—no less, no more....

I once saw a meme that defined experience as “something you gain the moment immediately after you needed it”. That makes the cost of experience directly proportional to the severity of the event that prompted the concession, and trust you me; you want the bill for experience to be as...

It might be tempting to view a resume requirement within a request for proposal (RFP) as an “easy” task. But, like most things with the proposal process, it is not that simple. Proposal Managers will search for candidates via various sources (ClearanceJobs, company-established resume...

This year marks 10 years since Trident CEO Jeff Everage received the news of the death of roommate, shipmate, and loyal friend LCDR Robert ‘Trey’ Clukey III during a training accident. This final piece to our #MemorialDay series highlights the joy, friendship, and inherent danger of...

Today we honor the memory of Staff Sgt. Walter Knudsen. Knudsen was 21 years old when his plane went missing during a training mission over New Guinea in 1944. For more than 60 years, Knudsen’s disappearance was something the family spoke of often. 

Knudsen graduated from an Iowa high...

Today’s Memorial Day series highlights Private First Class Joseph Strucel. Strucel's name not only lives on the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. but in the hearts of Trident’s Matt Hardy and those he left behind.

Private First Class Joseph John Strucel, or Joe as he was more...

For Trident’s HR Director, Rebecca Wayland, Memorial Day brings about memories of friend and U.S. Naval Academy company mate Marine Corps Capt. Stanford Shaw III, or Ford as he was known to his friends. 

A 2006 Naval Academy graduate, Ford was among seven Marines and four Soldiers who...