Pursue or walk away
Test the fit, timing, role, and likely effort before the bid consumes the team.
GovCon opportunity check for small businesses
Have an opportunity? Find out if it is worth the bid.
Sarus helps you test the fit, spot proposal risk, and build the next move before the deadline takes over.
- Public details first
- Fixed scope before work
- Evidence-based direction
Start where you are
One useful decision comes first.
What the work should change
Know what deserves your time.
The goal is not a longer proposal. It is fewer wasted pursuits, cleaner evaluator alignment, and a process your team can repeat.
Find the pressure points
See where the evaluation, proof, staffing, teaming, or compliance story needs work.
Choose the next move
Leave with a written direction for strategy, proposal support, or a disciplined no-bid.
A written next step
Leave with a decision, not just another call.
We connect the public opportunity, your role, the evaluation pressure, and the proof available today. The result is a grounded direction leaders can use to fund, fix, or decline the pursuit.
Start with the public opportunityIllustrative format
Example onlyOpportunity decision brief
- Bid fit
- Conditional - resolve two proof gaps
- Evaluator pressure
- Staffing confidence and delivery control
- Prime role
- Integration, quality, schedule, and accountability
- Next move
- Confirm team evidence before proposal production
Built for the serious next step
You do not need to know all the GovCon language.
You do need a real capability, an honest role, and enough evidence to make the agency decision easier.
Commercial businesses entering the federal market
8(a), SDVOSB, and WOSB firms pursuing a first award
Prime contractors organizing subcontractor inputs
Lean teams facing a live RFP, RFQ, or task order
The Sarus Bid Clarity Method
Four questions keep the pursuit honest.
A win strategy answers one plain question: why should the evaluator choose this team for the work?
Qualify
Is this opportunity worth the time, money, and attention?
Align
What does the customer need to believe about your team?
Prove
Which facts, controls, and examples make that belief credible?
Produce
How should the response make the evaluator's decision easier?
Already have subcontractors?
Turn separate companies into one credible team.
Partners may perform substantial work. The prime still needs to show leadership, added value, performance control, and compliance with the solicitation and applicable clauses.
- Define what the prime owns and controls
- Connect partner proof to evaluation factors
- Make management, quality, and risk visible
- Build one evaluator-facing delivery story
Contract-specific limitations on subcontracting and pass-through rules may apply. Confirm controlling requirements in the solicitation and with appropriate professional or contracting guidance.
Choose the right level of help
Start small. Add support when the bid earns it.
These are typical engagement ranges. After a short review, we confirm a fixed scope and fixed price in writing before work begins.
Explore
FreeOpportunity Scout
Search current notices and review recent award context before you have a bid in hand.
Open the ScoutDecide
$1,500 fixedOpportunity Check
A candid fit and bid/no-bid review with a written next step your team can act on.
Check this opportunityPosition
$4,500-$7,500Win Strategy Sprint
Compliance mapping, evaluator alignment, positioning, proof points, and proposal themes.
Build the strategyRespond
From $9,500Proposal Support
Structured technical and management writing, reviews, and production for a live pursuit.
Discuss proposal supportConfidence you can inspect
Clear boundaries are part of the service.
Published planning ranges before the first sales conversation.
Written scope and price before work or payment begins.
Protected-data limits before detailed files enter the process.
Evidence-based advice without invented win rates or award promises.
Questions before the first step
Know what you are buying.
Is this useful if I am new to federal contracting?
Yes, especially when you already run a real business or can credibly help deliver the requirement. We translate the public opportunity into a practical decision without pretending every notice is a fit.
What if I learned the middleman strategy?
Bring the opportunity and the proposed team. We help show what the prime leads, what partners deliver, how performance is controlled, and why that structure helps the government customer.
Will you tell us not to bid?
When the evidence points there, yes. Protecting time and margin for a better pursuit can be the most valuable recommendation in the review.
Can I send the entire RFP through the public form?
Send the public link and high-level facts first. Keep classified information, CUI, source-selection information, export-controlled data, PII, and third-party proprietary material out of the public intake.
How firm are the published prices?
They are typical engagement ranges. After a short review, we confirm a fixed scope and fixed price in writing before work begins, so you know the number going in.
Do you guarantee an award or a PWin?
We provide honest positioning based on evidence, evaluation logic, and tradeoffs. Award decisions remain with the government customer, and no consultant controls the outcome.
A clearer next move
Put the opportunity in front of us.
Start with the public link, the due date, your expected role, and where the team feels stuck. Keep the first request high-level and free of protected data.