From RFQ received to signed SOW, a bid desk run 45+ times
Most teams do not lose bids because the pricing is wrong, they lose them because the process is improvised and the response arrives late. I built and ran a single repeatable path from inbound RFQ through to signed engagement, across four country offices, and I have run it 45 plus times. Every request goes through the same seven stages: source the RFQ, qualify and pin the scope, build the costing, price the bid, author the Statement of Work, coordinate the multi vendor and internal sign-offs, and hand a complete file to the closing Account Executive. That has produced 45 plus priced bids and 20 plus authored Statements of Work, with the commercial detail held in Pipedrive rather than in someone's inbox. I priced and authored this work, and the contracts were signed by our Account Executive after handoff. This tends to matter most when every proposal in your business looks different, when nobody can say where a given bid currently sits, or when the person who knows how you price is also your bottleneck.