Woman-Owned • Minority-Owned
Federal Capture Strategy and Proposal Consulting, Built by the People Who Scored the Proposals
You have contracts in hand. You know the work. What you don't have is certainty about why you're still losing bids you should be winning. CIG closes that gap with capture strategy and proposal support built by former federal evaluators, not former proposal writers guessing at what evaluators want.
80+
Years Federal Acquisition Experience
40+
Combined Executive Leadership
15
Number of Agencies Served
About Us
You're Doing the Work. The Wins Aren't Matching the Effort.
If your business already holds a federal prime award or has performed as a subcontractor on multiple task orders, you're past the point where generic GovCon education helps. Your problem isn't "how do I find opportunities." It's why a proposal you were confident in still scored lower than a competitor's, or why your pricing keeps getting flagged even when you thought it was tight.
That gap is almost never a writing problem. It's an evaluator-calibration problem: not knowing how a source selection board actually reads, scores, and ranks a proposal under FAR 15.304. Most consultants and proposal shops have never sat on that side of the table. CIG's founding team has.
Our Solutions
WHAT CIG DOES FOR SCALING CONTRACTORS
We do not sell single services. We solve acquisition problems end‑to‑end. CIG starts with your goals and constraints, then assembles a tailored mix from our core building blocks.
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We help you decide which opportunities are worth your capture resources before you commit weeks to a proposal you were never positioned to win. This includes market intelligence, incumbent analysis, and teaming strategy for 8(a), SDVOSB, and WOSB partnerships.
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Full technical volume support and compliance matrix development against FAR Part 15 evaluation criteria, written in evaluator-calibrated language, not generic proposal-shop templates.
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If you keep losing on price and don't know why, the issue is usually a mismatch between your technical approach and your pricing narrative, not your rate. We diagnose that mismatch before you submit.
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Winning the contract is the start, not the finish. We help you manage the obligations, documentation, and performance record that determine whether you win the next one.
About Us
We Were the Evaluators.
CIG's founding team includes former Senior Executive Service leaders, 1102-series contracting officers, and acquisition professionals who ran source selections, managed billion-dollar portfolios, and trained the federal acquisition workforce. We are not consultants who studied the system from the outside. We built and ran it.
That means when we review your proposal, we're not asking "does this sound good." We're asking the exact question a federal evaluator will ask: does this proposal make the evaluator's job easy, or does it make them work to find your compliance and your value. Every recommendation we make traces back to that standard.
About Us
Who We Serve
CIG works with small and diverse-owned federal contractors, who already hold at least one federal prime award or have performed on multiple subcontracts in the last three years. Based in Ashburn, Virginia, CIG serves clients throughout the DMV region and nationally through virtual engagement. Our clients are frequently 8(a), WOSB, SDVOSB, and MBE-certified businesses ready to scale beyond one-off wins into a repeatable federal growth pipeline.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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A capture strategy consultant helps you identify, qualify, and position for specific federal opportunities before a solicitation is released, including market research, teaming strategy, and bid/no-bid decision-making. CIG extends this into full proposal development and post-award compliance, so you're not managing separate vendors for each phase.
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A proposal writer produces the technical volume. CIG's team has direct experience serving as federal evaluators and contracting officers, which means our proposal review is calibrated to how source selection boards actually score under FAR 15.304, not just how the writing reads on the page.
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Yes. CIG is based in Ashburn, Virginia, and works directly with clients throughout the DMV region, but the majority of our capture strategy and proposal engagements are delivered virtually to federal contractors nationwide.
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CIG's core clients are small and diverse-owned federal contractors in the $8M to $50M revenue range who already hold at least one federal prime contract or have performed as a subcontractor on multiple awards. If you're pre-certification or haven't yet won your first contract, our GovCon Foundations resources are a better starting point than a capture engagement.
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It's a free strategy session where we review your current pipeline, past performance record, and recent proposal outcomes to identify the specific gap costing you wins, whether that's capture positioning, pricing strategy, compliance exposure, or proposal quality.
Stop Guessing Why You're Losing. Find Out.
If you have contracts in hand and know the quality of your work speaks for itself, but the win rate still isn't matching the effort, that is the exact gap CIG closes. Book a free GovCon Growth Diagnostic and we'll identify what's actually costing you wins, not just what generic GovCon advice assumes it is.