Top 10 Best Practices in GovWin

February 06, 2020

Maximize your investment with GovWin IQ

1. Leverage Your Customer Success Manager (CSM)

Your GovWin IQ CSM is here to assist you navigate the platform, to provide custom research support, and most importantly, to answer any questions. Contact your GovWin IQ CSM today to request monthly or quarterly usage reports from your CSM and to ensure your subscription is being utilized fully.

2. Utilize GovWin IQ Training Support

We encourage you to take advantage of live training with your CSM, watch support videos accessed from the GovWin IQ Support tab and Deltek Learning Zone, and access helpful guides in the guide center on the GovWin IQ homepage.

3. Set up Saved Searches

Save searches to receive new GovWin IQ content including opportunities, contracts, and Task Order Awards in your mailbox daily or weekly. Spend time working with your CSM to set up the right filters for your searches.

Tip: Keywords and Smart Tags are more accurate than NAICS codes because they are more representative of all the requirements in a given opportunity.

4. Mark Opportunities

Save opportunities of interest to ensure that updates are pushed to your email.

5. Set Aside Time Daily/Weekly to Review GovWin IQ Information

Mark time on your calendar each week to go through your GovWin IQ search emails and opportunity updates.

6. Share Content with Your Team

Share searches, opportunities, contracts, company information, points of contact, agency information, labor pricing, and task order data with other members of your team to make the best pursuit decisions possible.

7. Take Full Advantage of GovWin IQ’s Teaming Capabilities

Edit and update your Company Teaming profile in GovWin IQ. Each user should also create their Personal profile. This will enable users to be visible for teaming purposes, list themselves as potential vendors, and contact other members of the GovWin IQ Teaming Network. Advertise your interest on relevant opportunities to help your team find teaming partners.

8. Utilize GovWin IQ Research Support

GovWin IQ’s team of research analysts are here to provide analysis and reports to help you succeed. That can mean preparing for meetings with agencies and/or potential partners, educating your staff about spending and budgeting trends, finding teaming partners, or understanding your competition.

9. Provide Government Practice Stakeholders with a Login

Be sure everyone who is part of your team has a login, including business development, sales, marketing, strategy, program managers, senior management, and more! They should use the parts of GovWin IQ that will make them more effective in their day-to-day duties.

10. Sign Up for Market Alerts

Keep tabs on your competitors and customers using Market Alerts. Sign up to receive notifications when companies win contracts or subcontracts, agency profiles are updated, contracts and task orders are about to expire, and organization charts are updated.

For information on usage and how to subscribe to GovWin, click here.