The symposium took place on Thursday and was followed by a board meeting on Friday. The morning and afternoon sessions were 3 hours long and you had 6 to choose from. In the morning I attended a session where several procurement analysts from the Department of Energy's Albuquerque Operations Office demonstrated a set of Microsoft Word templates they have developed for conducting solicitations.
Help is available to describe regulatory issues such as FAR requirements.
However, they were interested in learning. I did invite them to join proposal-l. In the afternoon, I participated in a session on developing electronic executive summaries and presented a web-page based proposal demonstration. It is set up very much like a proposal itself. The panel also included Patti Nunn who introduced the session, outlined the major issues, and showed two videos produced for submission with proposals.