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At GovDash, our mission is clear: to empower businesses in the government contracting space to identify, pursue, and win more opportunities. We achieve this by combining cutting-edge technology with deep industry insights to streamline your business development process.
How GovDash is Connected
GovDash supports the entire business development lifecycle, and each step of this lifecycle informs the next, ensuring your data and insights are never going to waste.
Capabilities-backed Opportunity Identification: Our platform is designed to help you discover relevant opportunities based on your uploaded contracts and capabilities quickly and efficiently, ensuring you never miss out on a potential bid.
Pipeline and Capture Management: You can track and manage your opportunities from identification to capture with our intuitive pipeline management tools, ensuring that you stay on top of every deal. GovDash automates capability matrices by using your uploaded contracts and capabilities, providing you with deep insights based on your data.
Capture Informs Proposals: GovDash leverages the information gathered by your capture teams, SMEs, and solutioning teams when transitioning the opportunity to our Proposal Cloud when generating your proposal, ensuring that your insights and strategy shine.
Seamless Proposal Development: GovDash simplifies the proposal development process through our Proposal Cloud and Word Assistant features, allowing your team to focus on crafting compelling content rather than getting bogged down by administrative tasks.
A Personalized Assistant: With Dash, your GovDash AI Assistant, you have access to deep insights into your data, document creation, web search, document analysis, and more at your fingertips. Dash is always by your side, ready to assist, and serves as the center piece to the GovDash experience. Dash has full access to your opportunities, capabilities, and uploaded data to give you a competitive edge at a moment’s notice.
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GovDash Onboarding Process Overview
GovDash onboarding is a structured, five session process designed to ensure successful adoption across capture, proposal, and contract workflows. The full onboarding typically spans four weeks and includes setup, foundational training, and targeted deep dives, with a final fifth session to introduce you to your dedicated Account Manager.
Session 1: Kickoff & Account Setup (30 Minutes)
Recommended Participants: Champions from Proposals, Capture/BD, Contracts, Leadership, and IT
In this session, we’ll introduce the structure of your onboarding journey and outline the training sessions ahead, including recommended attendees. We’ll walk through setting up available integrations, make sure your designated champions are added to the platform, and show them how to invite their teams. You’ll be connected with our Help Center and Help Desk resources, and we’ll align on your goals and success metrics. We’ll also cover test proposal requirements, review a past proposal example for context, and explain how live bid support works during onboarding. Lastly, we’ll wrap up by sending a session summary and your first training calendar invite.
Session 2: Foundations & Contract Cloud (60 Minutes)
Recommended Participants: All onboarding participants (contracts team strongly recommended)
This session provides new participants with an overview of GovDash and its role as a complete operating system for managing the full government contracting lifecycle. We'll take a deep dive into the Contract Cloud and Data Library modules, highlighting how accurate past performance and data fuels success across other areas of the platform. You'll see how the Contract Cloud and Data Library seamlessly connect with Capture, Proposal, and Dash tools, and we’ll emphasize the value of building out robust libraries to maximize platform benefits.
Session 3: Capture Cloud, Pipeline, and Dash (60 Minutes)
Recommended Participants: Capture and Proposal teams
In this session, you'll get an in-depth look at GovDash’s Capture Cloud and Pipeline tools. We’ll cover how Bid Match prioritizes opportunities using data from Contract Cloud, how Dash supports data calls and capture processes, capability matrices, gate reviews, solution shaping, and how Pre-RFP features prepare your team ahead of an RFP drop. Finally, we’ll walk through how GovDash ensures a smooth transition from capture to proposal with full visibility across teams.
Session 4: Proposal Cloud & Test Proposal Review (60–90 Minutes)
Recommended Participants: Proposal team and key contributors
This session focuses on how to effectively use GovDash to build high-quality proposals. We’ll review your test proposal within the platform and demonstrate how writing plans are generated directly from real RFP instructions. You'll see a comparison of content written with and without GovDash’s guided support, and learn how structured pink team drafts streamline early reviews. We'll also highlight compatibility with SharePoint for collaboration and introduce the Word Assistant, your tool for improving content, ensuring substantiation, and improving formatting.
Session 5: Ongoing Success Planning & Account Manager Transition (30 Minutes)
Recommended Participants: Champions from Proposals, Capture/BD, Contracts, Leadership
In this closing session, we’ll address any final questions and introduce your dedicated Account Manager. We’ll establish the ongoing support cadence post-onboarding and align on any upcoming live bids or additional support your team may need as you transition into full platform usage.
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Why Do We Run Test Proposals?
The best way to learn how to align your BD and proposal management processes with GovDash is starting from a familiar reference point. By seeing how we recreate your submitted proposal within GovDash, you’ll understand how to best leverage the tools at your disposal to save the most time when working towards your final submission.
What Do We Need For Your Test Proposal?
In order to successfully run your proposal through GovDash, we require the following information/documents:
Solicitation files (RFP and PWS). We recommend choosing a proposal that is simplified, at least task order level.
Your fully submitted proposal
For any past performance referenced, we need the contract and statement of work
Any resumes for key personnel referenced in the proposal
Pick a Proposal
We recommend choosing a previously submitted proposal that you are most familiar with from a content and past performance standpoint. This ensures that you have a firm understanding of the material and how this translates to key areas within GovDash’s proposal process. This does not have to be a proposal that you have won!
Provide us with Past Performance & Key Personnel
In order to successfully run this test proposal through GovDash, we will need the contract documents associated with the past performance referenced in the proposal, and any key personnel resumes for key personnel used within the proposal.
We’ll Work Our Magic
Once we have your proposal, contract documents, and key personnel resumes, we will deconstruct your proposal, upload your data, and work our magic to get your proposal transposed directly into GovDash!
Reviewing the Test Proposal
During our fourth onboarding session, we will deep dive into the test proposal within GovDash with you and your team to show exactly where the information within your proposal was utilized, review critical sections to show how GovDash structures your content, and more. We aim for this to be the light-bulb moment where you’ll understand how your existing processes and GovDash align!
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Our Ongoing Support Commitment
At GovDash, we’re committed to providing you with all the resources you need to succeed. Whether you’re looking for detailed guides, step-by-step instructions, or personalized support, we’ve got you covered. Here are the key ways to access help and connect with our team.
GovDash Help Center: Explore our Help Center for detailed guides and support articles.
Guided Tours: Take advantage of our guided tours to walk you through different features.
GovDash Video Library: Watch videos that provide step-by-step instructions and best practices.
Contact Us: Reach out directly using the Get Help button in the top right of GovDash and select Contact Us to reach a member of our support team, by emailing [email protected], or connect with your onboarding specialist for assistance.
Questions? We’re here for you!
If you have any questions about our onboarding processes, please reach out to your onboarding specialist, or our support team at [email protected]