Your outsourced Pursuit Department — commercial construction & design

The project is decided before the first shovel.
It's decided on paper.

V1 becomes your outsourced Pursuit Department — building the proposals, SOQs, qualification packages, and interview presentations that get commercial contractors and design firms shortlisted and win negotiated, private-sector work.

Book a Pursuit Review See how it works
One shopfor every pursuit document — RFPs, RFQs, SOQs, and interview decks
~1 hourof your team's total time per pursuit — we carry the rest
3–5 daysstandard turnaround, kickoff to submission-ready
Fixedpricing on every engagement — quoted before we start
Who we help

Built for firms in exactly this spot

Commercial contractors and design firms big enough that pursuits decide real work — but not big enough to justify a full-time proposal manager. If one of these sounds like you, we were built for it.

"Our PM writes proposals at 10 p.m."

We take the whole draft off his plate — his hours go back to billable project work, and the submission gets sharper.

"We're a $30M contractor with no proposal manager."

You get a full pursuit department — writing, quals, decks, coaching — without an $85K-a-year hire.

"We bid several pursuits a month and every one is a scramble."

A retainer that runs your pipeline on a system, so no deadline turns into a fire drill.

"We keep getting invited — then losing the shortlist interview."

We build the interview deck and rehearse the presenter until the room matches the paper.

"Our SOQ is a Word template from years ago."

A branded qualification package built to how evaluators actually score — not boilerplate they've seen before.

"We win on relationships, not paperwork."

Keep the relationships. We carry the rooms you're not in — the committee scoring three proposals without you there.

Capabilities

You bring the expertise. We put its best foot forward.

V1 isn't a construction firm — and that's the point. You already have the field knowledge, the projects, and the people. What we bring is the craft of the pursuit itself: writing, structure, and persuasion, applied to the documents and presentations that decide who gets the work.

Everything your firm submits or presents in a pursuit, we build — the written response, the qualification package, the interview deck. And when it's time to present, we prep the presenter too.

Where we stop: we write the qualifications and the story — never the estimate. Your number stays yours; we build the package around it.

1

RFP & RFQ responses

Complete, compliance-mapped responses written the way evaluators score — specific to each client and project, never boilerplate.

2

SOQs & prequalification packages

Qualification packages and capability statements that get you through the gate and onto the bid list.

3

Interview & pitch decks

Shortlist presentations and developer pitches built to be briefed — clear storyline, clean visuals, speaker notes included.

4

Interview prep & delivery coaching

We rehearse your PM or team lead on the deck we built — structure, timing, Q&A — until it's delivered as confidently as it reads.

Pursuit Solutions

Three ways to work with V1

Fixed-price and productized — you know the cost before we start, and you keep the editable source files.

01

Proposals & SOQs

One high-stakes written document, done completely — an RFP response, an SOQ, or a qualification package.

  • Kickoff strategy call + key-theme development
  • Compliance-mapped to every RFP requirement
  • Full design pass in your brand
  • 10-point quality gate before delivery
02

Interview & Pitch Decks

You made the shortlist. The interview is a briefing — and briefings are our native language.

  • Shortlist interview presentations
  • Developer & capital pitch decks
  • Speaker notes and delivery coaching included
  • 48–72 hr rush available
03

Pursuit Partner

Your outsourced Pursuit Department, on retainer.

  • 2–4 pursuits every month, documents or decks
  • Maintained boilerplate & template library
  • 48-hour response SLA
  • Quarterly capability statement refresh
The difference

The in-house reality vs. the V1 standard

The typical submission

Written after the real job

  • Drafted at 10 p.m. by an owner or PM whose day job is the project, not the pursuit
  • Same boilerplate sent to every client — and evaluators can tell
  • Requirements missed or answered out of order under deadline pressure
  • Capabilities stated without evidence a reviewer can score
  • No design pass — dense pages that look like every competitor's
The V1 standard

Built by a dedicated system

  • A structured production process with your input capped at about an hour
  • Written for this client, this project, this evaluation — every time
  • Compliance matrix mapping every requirement to its answer
  • Every claim paired with a number, a project, or a name
  • Designed pages with clear hierarchy that respect the reviewer's time
What we offer

Six commitments on every engagement

Not aspirations — the written working terms of every engagement.

J.R. Cook, Founder of V1 Proposals
J.R. Cook Founder B.S. Systems Engineering, U.S. Air Force Academy M.S. Human Systems Engineering, University of Florida

01 — Fixed price, always

Quoted in full before we start. No hourly billing, no scope surprises, no invoice you didn't see coming.

02 — On time, every time

The delivery date is built backward from your submission deadline with margin to spare. Rush turnarounds (48–72 hrs) available.

03 — Revised until you approve

Unlimited revision rounds within the pursuit. The balance isn't due until you've signed off on the final document.

04 — You own everything

Editable source files, templates, and boilerplate developed for your firm stay with your firm. No hostage files.

05 — Direct to the principal

No account managers, no handoffs. Calls, drafts, and decisions run through one person with full context on your firm.

06 — Confidential by default

Your pricing, client relationships, and pursuit strategy never leave the engagement.

Process

The V1 pursuit method

Named stages, run the same way on every pursuit — so nothing gets missed and quality is a gate, not a hope. Your total time investment: a 30-minute kickoff and one review.

Teardown

Every RFP requirement, page limit, and form goes into a compliance matrix — mapped to where it's answered, with the scoring criteria inferred.

Extract

A 30-minute recorded kickoff mines the evidence — numbers, named projects, outcomes — that your proposals have never put on paper.

Position

One sharp key theme: why your firm, for this project, for this client — stated in the first 100 words and echoed throughout.

Build

Writing and design together. Every claim welded to a number, a project, or a name; anything we can't verify is flagged back to you.

Gate

A red-team pass scores the document the way a skeptical committee would, then a final human quality check — before you ever see it.

Submit & debrief

Submission-ready files in the required format, on time — plus a debrief after the decision, win or lose.

Pricing

Simple, fixed, and built to be tested

Start with the Pilot — $3,000

One full pursuit document — proposal, SOQ, or deck — at a first-engagement rate, with every commitment above in force. The fee credits toward your next engagement — another Per Pursuit document or a Pursuit Partner retainer — started within 30 days. Test us on a real pursuit before committing to more.

Claim the pilot

Per Pursuit

$4,500–$8,000 / document
For one-off, high-stakes submissions. Flat pricing up to ~$2M contract value; larger pursuits quoted.
  • $4,500–6,000: standard proposals and SOQs
  • $6,000–8,000: complex, multi-part RFP responses
  • Kickoff strategy call + key themes
  • Compliance matrix + design pass
  • 3–5 day turnaround, rush available
For monthly bidders

Pursuit Partner

From $5,500 / month
$5,500/mo for 2 pursuits · $9,500/mo for 4 pursuits.
  • Documents or decks, mixed each month
  • Maintained boilerplate & template library
  • 48-hour response SLA
  • Quarterly capability statement refresh
Self-serve — you run it in-house

Foundation

$5,000 one-time
The reusable system your team runs in-house.
  • Branded proposal template system
  • Capability statement + 3 case studies
  • Organized boilerplate library
  • 1-hour team handoff session

Compare it to the alternatives: a full-time proposal coordinator runs $85K+ a year, and pulling a PM off billable work for two weeks costs more than a pilot. Firms with dedicated pursuit teams typically invest 1–1.5% of contract value per submission — on a $2M project, V1's per-pursuit fee is roughly 0.2–0.4%. A single additional shortlist can cover years of the service.

Contact

Got a pursuit on the calendar?

Book 20 minutes and bring your last proposal or deck — we'll tell you, candidly, how it stacks up against what gets shortlisted.

Book a Pursuit Review or email jr@v1proposals.com