DELIVERY COMES FIRST.
Your best people are serving clients. Proposals become another deadline competing for their attention.
PROPOSAL + CAPTURE + GROWTH
YOUR NEXTWIN IS DUE.
DueStar gives growing companies the proposal development, capture strategy and business development capacity to compete for more and win more.
Helping companies compete for government and private-sector contracts.
START A PURSUIT01 / THE PROBLEM
THE OPPORTUNITY IS THERE. THE CAPACITY ISN’T.
You already deliver the work. Competing for the next contract takes time, focus and people who are not already committed to what you have won.
PURSUITS START TOO LATE.
When the request is the starting point, there is less time to understand the buyer, shape your position and assemble the evidence.
SCATTERED INFORMATION SLOWS THE RESPONSE.
When company information, project experience and team qualifications are scattered or outdated, every proposal takes more work than it should.
02 / ONGOING CAPACITY
YOUR PROPOSAL TEAM,ON RETAINER.
Retain DueStar as your standing proposal, capture and growth capacity, working to an agreed cadence. A single pursuit is another way to start.
Opportunity Intelligence and the Client Vault are part of retained work from day one, and your experts are asked for input only where their knowledge is genuinely needed.
PRIORITIZED RECOMMENDATIONS
Opportunities assessed against your capabilities, capacity and goals, with a clear recommendation to pursue, consider or pass.
AN AGREED PURSUIT CALENDAR
Upcoming responses planned with dates, owners and checkpoints, so your experts can plan their input.
DEVELOPMENT AND REVIEWS
Writing, compliance and review coordination across the active responses in the agreed scope.
CURRENT COMPANY EVIDENCE
Your reusable material kept organized, maintained and revalidated as needed, so each response starts further along.
REGULAR PIPELINE DECISIONS
A working cadence agreed with you, where the pipeline is reviewed and the next commitments are made together.
03 / SERVICES
BUILT FOR THEFULL PURSUIT.
Three connected disciplines, delivered as one scope of work: from choosing the right opportunity to a submission-ready response, and on to the next one.
01
PROPOSAL
Turn your expertise into a compliant, competitive response.
We break down the request, give every requirement an owner, and develop the response around what evaluators are asked to score.
- RFP, RFQ, SOQ and proposal-request intake
- Compliance matrix and response plan
- Writing and evidence development with your experts
- Review coordination and resolution of findings
- Graphics, production and formatting
- Submission readiness checks
02
CAPTURE
Decide well, then build the position.
The work done before release. It answers whether to pursue, and what the response has to prove if you do.
- Pursue or pass decision support
- Buyer, requirement and competitive analysis
- Win strategy and positioning
- Teaming, licensing and evidence gap identification
- Pursuit planning ahead of release
03
GROWTH
Make the next opportunity less reactive.
Building a focused pipeline, qualifying it honestly, and keeping the follow-through a busy operating company rarely has room for.
- California government opportunity monitoring and filtering
- Qualification and pipeline maintenance
- Fractional business development support
- Pursuit follow-through, debriefs and reuse
Scope is agreed for each engagement, and no engagement guarantees an award. Two parts of the work run continuously for retained clients: California Opportunity Intelligence and the Client Vault.
04 / OPPORTUNITY INTELLIGENCE
CALIFORNIA OPPORTUNITIES.A CLEARER PURSUIT DECISION.
Our opportunity monitoring currently focuses on California government bids. We agree the pursuit profile and sources worth watching with you, then monitor, filter and qualify what appears before returning with reasoned recommendations.
Delivered as a managed service by our team. You make the final decision on every pursuit.
- MONITOR
- FILTER
- QUALIFY
- RECOMMEND
Illustrative example. Not a live opportunity feed.
Districtwide Facilities Maintenance
Illustrative California school district
Response due in 24 days · illustrative timing
CONSIDER
Qualification pending
- Why it may fit
- Comparable multi-site delivery experience and existing coverage of the service area.
- Open gaps
- A third required reference is not yet confirmed, and a licensed subcontractor is needed for the electrical scope.
- Next action
- Confirm both requirements before making a pursue decision.
05 / MANAGED PURSUIT
A CLEAR PROCESS.BUILT AROUND YOUR PURSUIT.
Six stages, each with an output you can see. DueStar coordinates and develops the scoped work; your team supplies the expertise, evidence and pricing approvals. Who submits is agreed before the deadline.
What the stage produces
Opportunity assessment
DueStar responsibility
We read the solicitation against your capability, capacity and eligibility, and set out a reasoned pursue or pass recommendation.
Your input
Your view of the buyer relationship, current capacity and any commercial limits on the pursuit.
What the last stage learns feeds the Client Vault and the next qualification decision.
06 / CLIENT VAULT
EVERY PURSUIT MAKESTHE NEXT ONE STRONGER.
Your company information, project experience, personnel detail and certifications, kept organized, reviewed and current inside a retained engagement.
The material is yours. You approve what may be used, and each pursuit draws on the approved version rather than starting from a blank page.
01 · Source record
Districtwide facilities maintenance contract
- Source
- Executed contract, 2021
- Last reviewed
- 14 MAR (illustrative)
- Status
- Approved for use
02 · Approved reusable evidence
Crews maintain 14 comparable sites in the same service area today, using the dispatch process proposed here.
Supported by dispatch records and the annual preventive schedule held with the record.
03 · Next response excerpt
Section 2.1 Relevant experience
Crews maintain 14 comparable sites in the same service area today, using the dispatch process proposed here. Coverage hours and escalation contacts for this solicitation are set out in Section 2.4.
Revalidation queue
Fictional profile
- CertificationsOne certificate expires within 60 daysAction needed
- Personnel profilesTwo profiles awaiting updated role datesIn review
- Company informationEntity details, licenses and insurance checked this quarterCurrent
07 / ENGAGEMENTS
THE CAPABILITY.WITHOUT BUILDING EVERY ROLE.
Proposal, capture and business development are three different disciplines. Both routes are legitimate. The question is which shape of capacity fits your demand.
DUESTAR
- Proposal, capture and growth under one agreed scope
- Capacity shaped to the pursuit calendar
- Opportunity Intelligence and Client Vault included when retained
- Works alongside an existing team, or provides the capacity where there is none
AN INTERNAL HIRE
- Day-to-day availability inside your team
- Fixed, dedicated capacity you direct
- Familiarity with your operations that deepens over time
If your need is one fully utilized role, year-round, hiring may be the better answer. DueStar tends to suit companies that need several disciplines and whose pursuit demand rises and falls.
01
ESSENTIAL
One defined pursuit or project.
A single opportunity or scoped project, with deliverables and an end point agreed before work begins.
- One pursuit or one defined project
- Agreed deliverables and checkpoints
- Your team keeps ownership of technical content
02
MANAGED
Recurring proposal and capture delivery.
Ongoing responsibility for your active responses, with opportunity recommendations and your Client Vault maintained throughout.
- Recurring proposal and capture delivery
- Prioritized California government bid recommendations
- Client Vault maintained and kept current
03
GROWTH
Managed, plus the work ahead of the pursuit.
Everything in Managed, with proactive target-account planning, pipeline development and business development follow-through carried on your behalf.
- Everything in Managed
- Target-account planning and pipeline prioritization
- Earlier capture preparation before release
- Fractional business development follow-through
Both retained options, Managed and Growth, include California Opportunity Intelligence and the Client Vault. Everything runs to agreed priorities and capacity. Scope, timing and fees are agreed after a conversation.
HOW AN ENGAGEMENT STARTS
- 01Understand your business
- 02Agree priorities and scope
- 03Organize your material
- 04Begin the first pursuit
08 / THE WORK ITSELF
BUILT AROUNDTHE EVALUATION.
Clear structure, persuasive writing, named evidence and careful design. Here is how a claim and its supporting evidence sit together on the page, and how anything still unconfirmed stays visible.
Illustrative work sample. Not client work.
RFP 24-118 · Countywide helpdesk and endpoint support
Northline Technology Services
The county asked for support that does not slow down on day one. Northline already runs two service desks in the region on the same dispatch process proposed here, so the people, hours and escalation path described in this response are in place before the transition begins.
Priority incidents are triaged by a named dispatch lead. Onsite work is covered by two field technicians assigned to county facilities and drawn from an existing regional route, rather than recruited after award.
Where a site condition, account or device count is unknown at award, it is verified in Phase 1 and reported to the county IT lead before it affects the service window.
- 3.1
Respond to priority incidents within one hour
A named dispatch lead triages every priority ticket, with an after-hours rotation covering the stated support window.
Current ticket records across two service desks
Evidenced - 3.2
Onsite endpoint support at county facilities
Two field technicians assigned to the county, working from the existing regional dispatch schedule.
Staffing plan and current field-route schedule
Evidenced - 3.5
Completed security questionnaire and controls summary
Questionnaire drafted against documented internal practice, with unresolved items listed rather than implied.
Internal controls documentation, review in progress
Awaiting confirmation - 4.2
Three public-entity references
Two references confirmed in writing, third contact identified.
Reference approval on file for two of three
Awaiting confirmation
Illustrative transition schedule
DAY 1 TO DAY 45
- PHASE 1DAYS 1 TO 15
Asset and account inventory, ticket queue handover, escalation contacts agreed in writing.
- PHASE 2DAYS 16 TO 30
Field technicians onsite, monitoring and ticketing connected, service window in effect.
- PHASE 3DAYS 31 TO 45
Steady-state reporting begins and the first service review is held with the county IT lead.
09 / ABOUT
THE WORK BEHINDTHE WIN.
DueStar is an integrated proposal, capture and growth capability for established companies pursuing government and private-sector contracts. We work alongside your experts, hold the structure and ownership of the pursuit, and keep decisions moving to agreed checkpoints. The substance stays yours.
Clear ownership
Every requirement, input and next step has a named owner and a checkpoint.
Evidence over assertion
Claims are built on relevant experience and proof, and gaps stay labeled until they are confirmed.
Useful discipline
The process the pursuit needs: clear decisions, practical outputs and steady progress.
10 / PURSUIT NOTES
THINK BEFORE THE DEADLINE.
Brief, practical notes on the decisions behind a stronger pursuit.
EVERY WIN HAS A DUE DATE.
What happens before it determines what happens after.
11 / START A PURSUIT
START BEFORETHE DEADLINE.
Have an active government or private-sector opportunity, want help finding the right California government bids, or need ongoing proposal and capture capacity? Tell us where you are and what support you need. The earlier the conversation starts, the more there is to work with.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
We read what you send, discuss fit, timing and the decision you are working toward, then agree scope and next steps together. We aim to respond within one business day.
Prefer email? Write to rfp@duestar.com.