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Compliance and Risk Pre-Flight
Evaluators Cannot Score a Proposal They Have Already Rejected
Compliance is not a quality standard. It is a threshold requirement. A proposal that fails to comply with Section L's formatting, page limit, or submission instructions can be rejected before a single evaluator opens the technical volume. The proposal does not have to be bad. It just has to be non-compliant. And under FAR Part 15, agencies have upheld rejection on grounds as specific as a proposal that was one page over the stated limit or submitted one minute past the deadline.
Small businesses lose this way more often than they lose on technical merit. CIG's compliance pre-flight is designed to close that gap before it costs you an award.
Our Solutions
What CIG’s Compliance Pre-Flight Covers
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Every instruction in Section L traced line by line to the page and paragraph that answers it, so nothing required is missing and nothing submitted is unrequested.
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Verification that each evaluation factor has a findable, scoreable response in the structure the instructions demanded, because evaluators score what they can locate.
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Page counts, margins, font sizes, file naming, and volume separation checked against the solicitation’s stated limits before upload, including what the agency excludes from page counts and what it does not.
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SAM.gov status, FAR 52.204-8 annual representations, required certifications, signature blocks, and every form the solicitation calls for. These are the defects that are fatal for reasons unrelated to the quality of your work.
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Confirmation that every amendment has been acknowledged and incorporated, plus a final check of portal, file format, and timing. Under FAR 52.215-1©(3) and FAR 52.212-1(f), a proposal received after the exact time specified is generally not considered.
Who This is For
Small and diverse-owned contractors submitting on a deadline who need an independent check before upload. If your team wrote the proposal but no one has read it against the solicitation’s instructions rather than its requirements, if you have been found non-responsive before, or if you are submitting into an unfamiliar portal or vehicle for the first time, this is where CIG starts.
What You Can Expect
A completed compliance matrix you can hand to your reviewer or keep for the file. A prioritized list of defects ranked by whether they are fatal, scoreable, or cosmetic. And a clear answer to the only question that matters on submission day: is this proposal going to be evaluated, or rejected before anyone reads it?
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