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The proposal cost calculator.
Five numbers you already know. One honest figure: what producing proposals costs your firm in a year.
Estimated annual cost of producing proposals
$400K
≈ $370K–$430K a year
Your numbers
Proposals you produce40
CommercialSales · bid · coordination
Average effort per proposal30 hrs
Sales, bid team, coordination, formatting.
Blended cost
$/hr
Fully-loaded cost of an hour of commercial time.
Senior (SME)Technical experts
Average effort per proposal60 hrs
Senior, normally-billable people writing the technical content.
Blended cost
$/hr
Fully-loaded cost of an hour of senior time.
Where the cost sits
Senior (SME) time$290K72%
Commercial & coordination$110K28%
3,600 hours a year spent producing proposals · 2,400 of them senior time
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