On other pages, Len offers honesty and brevity, writing characteristics that are undoubtedly disarming for reviewers of his proposals. Well, frankly, there is more business available than top- notch proposal professionals can handle. The literacy is low, the organization of information poor, and attention to document layout is absent. One of the problems is that, after an award, most of the work may be abandoned to second-tier players with inadequate reviews by principals. Your ace network engineer may have spent 150 hours developing a brilliant technical solution and then scribbled cryptic notes and diagrams that were assembled into a 28-page report using a dot matrix printer.
Every organization needs document standards.
With spell checkers and grammar checkers there is little excuse for illiterate documents. We have expanded information for universities interested in sponsored research. There is a capability to search our entire web site using the Excite search engine, with weekly updates to the index. Kathy Chen, our virtual office manager, offers tours of our site, along with suggestions about how to make the most of our information. There is now a section on P2C2 Newsletters, with new newsletters added on a monthly basis.