Bid/no-bid discipline is a calendar problem, not a scoring problem
Every capture shop I've worked with has a scorecard. Weighted criteria, thresholds, color coding. Beautiful tools. Rarely filled out before the proposal effort is already three weeks in.
The shops that actually gate their bids have one thing in common: a standing bid/no-bid meeting every week, with a named decision-maker and a rule that nothing over a certain dollar value goes to proposal without an entry in the minutes.
The tool matters less than the cadence. Once the cadence is there, any bid scorecard will do. Until the cadence is there, the best scorecard in the world will stay blank.
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