Your business consulting team.On retainer.
Seven practices, led by retired Department of War (DoW) government contracting experts: Business Development, Capture Management, Proposal Management, Sales Management, Program Management, Project Management, and Workforce Staffing Solutions. Most small businesses cannot carry that bench full time, so the work happens at night, by whoever is free, against a portal deadline. AES scales to your requirement with a bench of highly qualified professionals, for a fixed monthly cost, with priority turnaround.
Senior support, at a cost you can plan around.
Choose a package built from our core competencies, or build a custom plan from the individual competencies you need. Every plan is a fixed monthly fee. Select any plan to see what it includes.
- Choose any two (2)
- ◆Business Development
- ◆Capture Management
- ◆Proposal Management
- ◆Sales Management
- Every plan
- ◆Dedicated senior team and priority turnaround
- Choose any three (3)
- ◆Business Development
- ◆Capture Management
- ◆Proposal Management
- ◆Sales Management
- Every plan
- ◆Dedicated senior team and priority turnaround
- Includes all four
- ◆Business Development
- ◆Capture Management
- ◆Proposal Management
- ◆Sales Management
- Every plan
- ◆Dedicated senior team and priority turnaround
- Includes all seven (7)
- ◆Business Development
- ◆Capture Management
- ◆Proposal Management
- ◆Sales Management
- ◆Program Management
- ◆Project Management
- ◆Workforce Staffing Solutions
- Every plan
- ◆Dedicated senior team and priority turnaround
- ◆Business Development
- ◆Capture Management
- ◆Proposal Management
- ◆Sales Management
- ◆Program Management
- ◆Project Management
- ◆Workforce Staffing Solutions
- Every custom plan includes a dedicated senior team and priority turnaround. Competencies can be added or removed as your needs change.
Every plan includes a dedicated senior team and priority turnaround. Packages are billed at a flat monthly fee, and package savings apply while the full package is kept. Plans can be changed with thirty days' notice. Not sure which plan fits? Call us for a Free Consultation and we will recommend the right one.
Services Provided
By the time the RFP posts, most of the decision is already made.
Agencies talk to industry for months before a solicitation drops. They shape requirements around what they have seen work. By release day, the competitors who were in those conversations are writing to a requirement they helped inform, and everyone else is writing to a document they are reading for the first time.
That gap is not a writing problem, and no amount of polish at the deadline closes it. It is a capture problem, and it is solved twelve months earlier by knowing which pursuits are worth that year of attention.
That is the work we do. The proposal is where it gets proven, but the contract is won well before then.
What actually lands in your inbox.
Consulting engagements go wrong when nobody can point to what was produced. These are the artifacts you keep, whether or not you keep us.
Qualified pipeline
A prioritized opportunity list with agency, vehicle, value, dates, and a qualification score on each - not a spreadsheet of everything on SAM.gov.
Customer call plan
Who to contact at which office, in what order, with what message, and what to ask for on each call.
Capture plan
Win strategy, discriminators, competitor assessment, teaming approach, and gate milestones with owners and dates.
Competitive assessment
Who else bids this, what they will claim, where the incumbent is exposed, and what it will likely take on price.
Compliance matrix
Every Section L and M requirement mapped to a section, a page, an owner, and a due date. Nothing gets missed because it was buried in an attachment.
Annotated outline
The proposal skeleton with win themes, evidence, and graphics placed before a single paragraph is written.
Color team reports
Shipley-aligned color team findings written as actions - what to change, where, and why it costs you points if you do not.
Submission package
Final volumes, forms, reps and certs, and a portal upload rehearsal completed before the deadline, not during it.
Monthly pipeline report
Movement, wins, losses, forecast, and what changed - one page your leadership can read in five minutes.
From first call to first win.
Discovery call
Thirty minutes. What you sell, who buys it, what you have won, and what you have lost. No deck.
Pipeline audit
We score what you are already chasing. Some of it usually should not be on the list, and saying so is the fastest money we save you.
Bid or no-bid
A written gate decision on each live pursuit, so effort concentrates instead of spreading.
Execute
We run capture and manage the proposal. You stay in your business while the pursuit stays on schedule.
Debrief
Win or lose, we request and work the debrief. Losses become intelligence for the recompete instead of a sunk cost.
Seven Shipley-aligned color team reviews, from capture to lessons learned.
Independent reviews at each milestone, from capture strategy through final sign-off and lessons learned. Select a review.