The customer journey
From finding a solicitation to a reviewed set of materials
You find the opportunity. We help with the administrative side, once we’ve agreed that we can.
- You
You find an active solicitation
Look on Cal eProcure or the issuing agency’s procurement platform. We don’t search for or monitor solicitations, and we don’t send alerts.
- You
You request a review
Send your contact and business details, your license information, and the link to the public solicitation. Include the deadline and submission method if you can find them.
- Us
We review the solicitation
We look at the instructions, deadline, requirements, apparent complexity, and our own capacity. Submitting a request does not create an engagement.
- Us
You receive a feasibility assessment
If we can help, we confirm the scope, the fee, and the expected turnaround. The standard fee is $2,500 per accepted solicitation, and an expedited engagement is $3,500 when time is short and capacity allows (see pricing). Otherwise we ask for more information or tell you honestly that we can’t help with this one.
- Both
We agree on scope and terms
Work begins only after you accept the proposal and we agree on the scope, the fee, and engagement terms in writing.
- Us
We prepare documentation support
We help organize and review the agreed administrative materials for completeness and tell you what still looks missing.
- You
You decide, authorize, and submit
You make your own pricing and bid decisions, authorize the final bid, and submit it as the solicitation directs. We don’t deliver bids.
Who does what
Clear responsibilities on both sides
| The Pursuit Bureau (once engaged) | You, the contractor |
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If your deadline is close
Preparing documents and delivering a bid are different things, and some solicitations require physical delivery or receipt by a specific time. Tell us the deadline exactly as the solicitation states it, including the time and time zone.
We review every request, but we can’t promise that a request received close to a deadline can be accepted or completed. We may decline requests that don’t leave enough time. If we can’t help, we’ll say so as soon as we’ve looked at it, so you can plan.
The solicitation controls
Agencies and solicitations differ in how bids must be submitted and when they must be received. Never rely on a general rule, ours or anyone else’s. Confirm the requirements in the solicitation itself.
Find the work worth pursuing
Have a solicitation in front of you?
Send it over for review. It takes a few minutes, and nothing is agreed until we both agree on terms.
Requesting a review starts a conversation, not a commitment. We may not be able to take every request.