Pursue every SLED bid worth winning.
Bronze Keel is the pre-bid team that prepares the winnable SLED bids your own people have no hours left to reach, behind your name and on your deadline.
We'll walk you through our 13-day pipeline, show you a sample capture package, and answer your questions.
SLED only · No federal · Prime-branded · U.S. data residency
You are tracking far more opportunities than you can prepare.
The Time Tax.
A competitive SLED response runs 200 to 800 hours of senior labor. Every pursuit you chase eats a week of your capture lead's time.
The Resource Drain.
Because your team is stretched, the short decision window closes on a half-built compliance read. Win themes stay thin because pricing took all night.
The Fatal No-Bid.
An addendum gets missed, or an offshore restriction in Section 7.3 surfaces on day nine, after the hours are already spent. The bid is dead.
Two honest layers. You decide between them.
Send us the solicitation.
Forward the link or upload the RFP. Before a capture hour is spent, we screen eligibility and offshore restrictions, so a disqualifier shows up on day one, not day nine.
Get a decision-grade read.
A fast, plain read for the bid or no-bid call: what responsiveness actually requires, where the disqualifiers sit, and a clear go or no-go line your capture lead can take into the room.
We build the submission-grade package.
If you decide to bid, the full pre-bid package lands in about two weeks, branded as your team's own work, ready for your writers to start drafting instead of interpreting.
Safe to put behind your name on a SLED proposal.
Masked relationship model.
Every deliverable is produced as if your own team produced it. We do not appear in the metadata, the proposal narrative, or the agency's evaluation file. Ever.
NDA before anything.
No RFP, no draft, no pricing template moves until a mutual NDA is in place. On intake we screen three things: eligibility, offshore restrictions, and data sensitivity.
U.S. business hours.
Daily delivery windows aligned to your time zone, on whatever channel you already run captures in.
If a pursuit needs regulated data in our hands, a cleared or citizenship-restricted team, or any contact with the agency, we decline it and tell you on the first call. We analyze the requirements written in the public solicitation. We never handle the data.
Five standardized deliverables, every pursuit.
A 300-page RFP condensed into five minutes. We isolate scope, budget, deadlines, evaluation weights, and disqualifier flags to give your leadership a preliminary go/no-go line without reading the raw PDF.
Compliance posture.
We are a Remote Service Provider. The delivery team operates from outside the United States. All client data lives in U.S. cloud regions. We state this in every NDA and we scope accordingly.
- Active U.S. EIN
- AWS US-East/West Data Residency
- VPN/MFA Access Control
- No Federal Pass-throughs
Over a U.S. proposal consultant or a generic offshore shop.
| U.S. proposal consultant | Generic offshore shop | Bronze Keel | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost model | Hourly, $75 to $150 | Hourly, low and variable | Flat fee per pursuit, no hourly billing |
| Turnaround | 5 to 10 days | 7 to 14 days, with revisions | Decision-grade read in days, submission-grade in about two weeks |
| SLED discipline | Senior staff only | None or generic | Trained specifically on SLED capture |
| NDA framework | Their template | Ad hoc | Mutual NDA when work begins |
| Metadata hygiene | Manual | Inconsistent | Fixed checklist on every file |
| Attribution | Consultant signs the work | Authorship leaks in the PDF | 100% prime-branded, zero evaluator visibility |
| Agency contact | Sometimes direct | Sometimes direct (a red flag) | Never. Through the prime, always |
What the work actually looks like.
Real, public solicitations, worked end to end the way we would work yours. The prime's name on the cover, ours nowhere.
A 21-day pursuit, captured in thirteen.
Bay County, Michigan · PA 451 Materials Management Plan (RFP 2026-08)
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A 28-day pursuit, captured in thirteen.
Contra Costa County, California · Probation AI report-writer & document automation
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Seventeen days to bid. Ninety to deploy.
Town of South Kingstown, RI · Opioid Settlement-funded data & analytics platform
Read the engagement →Further engagements available under NDA on request.
Every engagement starts with a go or no-go before any build.
Your next RFP drops Friday at 4. Be ready.
Book a call and bring a live solicitation. We will give you a decision-grade read on it, free, and show you what the full package would cover if you bid. No deck, no obligation.
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