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Price‑to‑Win and What It Means for Customers
David Sanborn 8/14/25 David Sanborn 8/14/25

Price‑to‑Win and What It Means for Customers

Learn how effective Price-to-Win (PTW) strategies help government contractors bid smarter and deliver greater value to the customer.

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Indirect Reckoning:  Relooking Cost Structures amid Budget Cuts & Competitive Realignment
David Sanborn 7/2/25 David Sanborn 7/2/25

Indirect Reckoning: Relooking Cost Structures amid Budget Cuts & Competitive Realignment

With pricing now a key discriminator, indirect rates have moved to the forefront. As layoffs shrink labor bases and uncertainty clouds forecasts, finance teams must rethink how they structure and recover overhead to stay competitive.

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Who Owns the Risk Now? Navigating Procurement Change in Federal Contracting
David Sanborn 6/4/25 David Sanborn 6/4/25

Who Owns the Risk Now? Navigating Procurement Change in Federal Contracting

In a landscape of budget cuts and contract volatility, effective PTW modeling requires not just precision but predictive insight into how competitors will respond to risk, loss, and shrinking pipelines.

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Not All Competitors Are Feeling the DOGE Effects Equally — and This Impacts Their Competitive Behavior
David Sanborn 5/16/25 David Sanborn 5/16/25

Not All Competitors Are Feeling the DOGE Effects Equally — and This Impacts Their Competitive Behavior

As DOGE reforms reshape GOVCON, contractors need deeper insight into competitor behavior, pricing posture, and financial pressure. Explore how Price-to-Win (PTW), Competitive Intelligence (CI), and Wrap Rate analysis help forecast which bidders will adopt aggressive, risk-tolerant strategies in a more volatile, budget-constrained market.

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FAR 2.0 and the Rise of Commercialized Government Procurement Strategy
David Sanborn 5/1/25 David Sanborn 5/1/25

FAR 2.0 and the Rise of Commercialized Government Procurement Strategy

As the FAR undergoes a commercial transformation, Price-to-Win strategies must shift from historical cost analysis to bottoms-up engineering estimates that anticipate risk, margin pressure, and aggressive fixed-price behaviors.

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