Proposals
Project proposals are the principal tools that you use to sell your firm's services and win new business. Proposals contain all the information about your firm, your employees, and your previous work that prospective clients want to know before they award a contract.
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The Proposals application streamlines the proposal production process, allowing you to:
- Create custom proposals that are tailored specifically to individual customers and business opportunities.
- Centralize proposal information and create templates that streamline data retrieval and proposal generation.
- Integrate records, fields, images, and other elements directly from the hubs, ensuring data accuracy and consistency.
- Share proposal information and templates with team members.
- Export proposals to PDF format for quick turnaround.
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Learn basics about the Proposals application, which provides flexibility and a variety of elements and options that you use to create a custom proposal for clients, organizations, projects, and teams. |
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Learn how to add hub records to proposals, insert images and additional fields, and format fields and text. |
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Learn how to create a resume template, which is helpful when submitting proposals for projects in which you want to highlight your team's background and experience. A resume template saves time by allowing you to create the layout, and determine the information that you want to present about your team, in future proposals based on the template. |
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Learn how to set up document and page properties in a proposal in Vantagepoint. |
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Learn how to create a template from a proposal. |
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Learn about element groups, which are sets of elements that you can reuse in future proposals. |
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Learn how to set up a grid that displays multiple records in a proposal. Presenting information in a table format provides prospects with easy-to-read information. |
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Learn how to create an estimate based on a pursuit project. This feature allows you to include in a proposal an estimate for your client, to information them of a project's estimated cost. |
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- Proposals Concepts
The Proposals application streamlines the proposal generation process. You can design custom proposals from scratch, or create a proposal based on a template or an existing hub record. You can also insert data from hub records directly into your propsals. - Proposal Quick Reference Topics
The Proposal Quick Reference topics provide a process overview for different key proposal functions, such as creating a new proposal or a new template. - Custom Proposals
Custom Proposals provides a graphical, WYSIWYG interface where you can drag and drop elements, such as images, text boxes, and hub records from the Elements pane into the proposal. This interface provides a graphical representation of how the proposal will look, and allows you to design or make changes to it on-the-fly. - Proposal Templates
A template serves as the basis for a new proposal. You can create templates from scratch, using preformatted styles, layouts, and blocks of information, or from existing proposals. By sharing templates with fellow team members, you save time and enable both cohesive content and consistent messaging for your firm. - SF330 Proposals
Federal agencies use the SF330 form to obtain information from architecture and engineering firms about their professional qualifications. Vantagepoint automates the process of filing out the SF330.