Click here to read an excerpt from a recent issue. Your publication is great. It's not self-serving like some of those other guys. I like it. An important part of finishing any proposal is making the final page count.
Many government agencies have a policy of returning excess pages to the bidder unread.
At least one agency starts their review by counting pages from the front of the proposal. When they get to whatever their magic number is, they remove all the rest and send them back to the bidder unread. If this happens to your proposal, you have problems. The first step is to have the authors and volume managers make one last pass through the almost-final document. Here is the bleeding corpse.