Writing a Proposal for an IFB

When the solicitation is an Invitation for Bid, which is the case most of the time for small businesses, writing your proposal will consist of filling out the forms that you received from the government in the bid package and sending them in.

But it's not as simple as it sounds. Even though all you basically have to do is fill in some blanks on forms that the government has provided and send back the bid package, you must still be very careful. As we pointed out earlier, when you send back the bid package, the government will look at it as if you had put it together yourself and as if they are seeing it for the first time.

To give you a first-hand look at some of the standard forms that you can expect to see with an IFB, we are reproducing some of the more common ones, along with a line-by-line explanation of how to fill them in.

• Filling Out DD Form 1707
• Filling Our Standard Form 33