Too many solicitations
Thousands of notices post every week. Sorting real fits from noise is a full-time job before a single word of a proposal is written.
Your Partner in Federal Contracting Success
Every solicitation is an opportunity.Is it the right one for you?
Federal Proposal Support Service helps small businesses find the right federal opportunities and decide when to GO and when to NO-GO — before you spend valuable time, money, and team capacity chasing the wrong solicitation.
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- Knowledge
- Strategy
- Compliance
- Results
Who We Are
Federal contracting guidance built for small business realities.
FPSS is a consulting service dedicated to helping small businesses compete for federal government contracting opportunities. We work alongside owners and capture teams who do not have a full-time proposal department — and who cannot afford to spend weeks on a solicitation that was never winnable.
Our work covers the full front end of the federal pursuit: opportunity intelligence, disciplined Go/No-Go assessment, RFQ, RFP, and RFI proposal support, and compliance and submission readiness. Every engagement is personal, direct, and grounded in how federal buyers actually evaluate what you submit.
The Federal Contracting Challenge
Chasing the wrong opportunity costs more than losing it.
Small businesses rarely lose federal work because they lack capability. They lose because their limited hours went to pursuits that were never the right fit — and the one solicitation they were built to win arrived with no capacity left to answer it.
Time you cannot spare
A serious response consumes weeks of owner and staff attention — time taken directly from delivering work that already pays.
Unforgiving compliance
A missed clause, a wrong format, a late upload. Federal evaluators reject non-compliant submissions before scoring the merits.
Experienced incumbents
You are often bidding against firms with dedicated capture teams and years of past performance on that exact requirement.
“Every solicitation is an opportunity. But the more important question is: is that opportunity the right fit for you and your company?”
GO
Pursue with confidence when
- The scope maps directly to work you already perform and can prove.
- Your past performance, NAICS, and set-aside status genuinely qualify you.
- The timeline, pricing structure, and staffing plan are realistic for your team.
NO-GO
Step back and save your capacity when
- The requirement is wired to an incumbent's exact record of performance.
- Compliance demands certifications, clearances, or bonding you do not hold.
- Winning would stretch delivery past what your business can safely absorb.
FPSS Services
Four disciplines that carry you from notice to submission.
Engage a single service or the full sequence. Either way, you work directly with your consultant from first review through final upload.
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Federal Opportunity Intelligence
Targeted monitoring of federal solicitations against your capabilities, codes, and set-aside status — so the opportunities that reach your desk are the ones worth reading.
- Capability-matched opportunity scans
- Agency and buying-office context
- Incumbent and competitive landscape
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Go / No-Go Assessments
A structured, honest evaluation of fit, probability, and cost of pursuit — delivered before you commit the hours, so the decision is made on evidence rather than optimism.
- Requirement-to-capability fit review
- Win probability and risk factors
- Clear GO or NO-GO recommendation
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RFQ / RFP / RFI Proposal Support
Hands-on development of responsive, evaluator-ready submissions: outline to compliance matrix to final narrative, shaped around the stated evaluation criteria.
- Compliance matrix and response outline
- Technical and management narrative
- Past performance and pricing narrative
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Compliance & Submission Readiness
A final disciplined pass across instructions, formatting, representations, and portal requirements so your response is accepted, scored, and considered on its merits.
- Section L and M compliance check
- Formatting and volume verification
- Portal submission walkthrough
Why FPSS
Personal, one-on-one support from someone who answers.
We are human, guaranteed.Real conversations, real judgment, real accountability for the work we hand back to you.
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One person, start to finish
You are never routed to a queue or handed to a junior associate. The consultant who reviews your first solicitation is the one who reads your final submission.
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An honest NO-GO is worth as much as a GO
We will tell you plainly when a pursuit is not worth your hours. Protecting your capacity is part of the service, not a lost sale.
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Built around small-business constraints
Our process assumes a lean team, real delivery obligations, and a hard limit on how much capture work you can absorb in a month.
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Written for how evaluators score
Every narrative is structured against the stated evaluation criteria, so reviewers find what they are looking for exactly where they expect it.
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Plain language, no jargon wall
Federal acquisition has enough acronyms. You get clear explanations of what a requirement demands and what your response must prove.
Meet Bill Archival
The person you call is the person who does the work.
Bill Archival founded Federal Proposal Support Service to give small business owners the kind of candid, experienced guidance that larger firms keep in-house. He works directly with every client — reviewing solicitations, running the Go/No-Go call, and shaping the response that goes out the door.
His approach is deliberately unglamorous: understand the requirement, be honest about fit, and build a compliant, persuasive submission that earns the evaluator’s attention. No handoffs, no anonymous back office, no template filled in by someone who has never spoken with you.
My job is to make sure your time goes to the pursuits you can actually win — and that when you do bid, nothing in the package gives an evaluator a reason to set it aside.
- Opportunity Intelligence
- Go / No-Go Discipline
- Proposal Development
- Submission Compliance
Schedule a free15-minute discovery call.
Before your next pursuit consumes another week, let’s talk about whether it is the right fit. No obligation, no sales script — just a direct conversation about your federal contracting goals.
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A candid fit conversation
Fifteen focused minutes on what you pursue, what you win, and where your time is going.
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A clear next step
You leave the call knowing whether FPSS can help and exactly what working together looks like.
Ready to talk?
Pick a time that works for you. You will hear back from a real person — we are human, guaranteed.
Book a Free 15-Minute CallPrefer email? bill@fedpss.com954-872-1711