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List the kill items
Don't write yet.
Made for people in Government
Build an RFP Compliance Matrix Before Anyone Writes Prose
40 min
Intermediate
Government
Career outcome:
Win Contracts
Extract shalls and evaluation factors before a single marketing paragraph.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
Completed ✓
Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
Proposals lose on missed shalls, not on adjectives.
Your answers save as you type.
What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Draft the matrix columns
Shall, location, owner, status.
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Write the gap plan
Hours, not vibes.
04
Recommend go, conditional go, or no-bid
Someone has to say it.
Make Your Play
Build an RFP Compliance Matrix Before Anyone Writes Prose
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Due date, NAICS, set-aside, odd requirements, evaluation factors.
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Who would bid, partners, relevant work.
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Page limit, bid bond, who must sign.
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What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
01
List the kill items
Don't write yet.
02
Draft the matrix columns
Shall, location, owner, status.
03
Write the gap plan
Hours, not vibes.
04
Recommend go, conditional go, or no-bid
Someone has to say it.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Fill the fields with this week’s real details. Incomplete notes beat invented polish.
Run the assembled prompt, answer follow-ups with specifics, then copy the deliverable into your own doc and verify names and numbers.
Advanced instructions
Add constraints the model can’t see: politics, licensing, cash timing, union rules, or family bandwidth.
After the first pass, ask it to attack the weakest assumption in the draft.
Use this when
An RFP or RFQ just dropped and people already want to write the executive summary.
You'll need
- What you have read so far
- Team and past performance
- Hard constraints
You'll get
- A a shall-statement matrix with owners, gaps, and a bid/no-bid flag you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A a shall-statement matrix with owners, gaps, and a bid/no-bid flag you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
Examples
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