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Insider Tactics for Winning Government Contracts
 
Common sense, but not always common knowledge ways to beat the competition
Thirty years of government contract capture knowhow

ERS Advisors is a management consulting firm founded by Edward R. Saltzberg, Ph.D., one of the Washington DC area’s most successful federal contracting professionals. Ed has crafted an approach to win government contracts, which he has developed from 30 years of competitive experience and from securing over a billion dollars in government awards.

A Record of Growth and Success
Ed's clients benefit from his experience with industry leading firms

  • Ed was a corporate officer and part of Science Application International Corporation’s (SAIC) explosive growth in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
  • He was a partner in two small firms, Viar & Company and the Marasco Newton Group, which he helped grow from $12 million and $5 million respectively to over $40 million each and sell to DynCorp (now CSC) and SRA International.
  • Ed headed the environmental business program at Battelle Memorial Institute before starting ERS Advisors.
  • Ed's business portfolio includes contracts with federal information management, energy, environmental, health, transportation, defense and security agencies.

ERS Advisors provides business acquisition consulting services and products to government contracting firms using the approaches Ed has developed over the past 30 years to grow and diversify corporate revenues.

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ERS Advisors' Tools for Winning
Government Contracts

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  • Business Acquisition Consulting: We excel at helping clients execute our Bid Decision Pyramid ™ or refine their decision framework to include tactics that better align and unify corporate resources to qualify opportunities and grow revenue and profits. Our Business Associates are also seasoned government agency experts who assist clients with agency marketing and specific opportunity pursuits.
  • ERS Advisors’ Online Business Acquisition Training Course: We have condensed the Bid Decision Pyramid ™ approach into a three-hour narrated online PowerPoint training called “Win More Work and Spend Less Money Doing it!” The course if packed with Ed's insider tactics to position firms to win government contract and can be streamed from our site. This is transformational 3 hours that will change the way you approach business acquisition.
  • The Business Acquisition Tracker (BAT) Software: Clients can implement our Bid Decision Pyramid ™ approach using our Business Acquisition Tracker (BAT) ™. This software application automates our tactics to identify and qualify leads and manage a firm’s entire business capture program. It is a complete Customer Relationship Manager and is offered in a desktop, server and hosted versions.
  • Temporary Professional Staffing: Project and proposal efforts are often done better, quicker and affordably using professional consultants for short-term temporary technical assignments. ERS Advisors maintains a current roster of Subject Matter Experts, experienced with government programs and procurement and proposal processes, available for temporary assignments. Within days or hours we can fill most short-to-medium term professional staffing requests.

Our products and services enable customers to immediately Win More Work and Spend Less Money Doing it! For more information, contact us at info@ersadvisors.com.

True or False? Your business program addresses Ed’s 11 critical contract capture questions:

How to use four key indicators to measure the health of your business program and to improve it
How to keep leads from languishing on the bid list
How to determine how much to spend on business acquisition and how to deploy these resources
How to determine the number of bids needed to meet financial goals
How to establish a meaningful bid list
How to get the right information in time to make informed bid decisions
How to avoid sabotaging the bid by making teaming decisions either too early or too late in the opportunity assessment process
How to find out if the proposal team is ready to go before it is too late or very costly to recover
How to improve your competitive position once the proposal is submitted
How to ensure no-bid decisions are made before they significantly erode resources
How to get high scores in the internal proposal reviews and why that is critical to winning the competition