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PAC Support

  • PAC Support for Proposal Records
  • Run PAC Reports
  • Salesforce Opportunities & Sales Pipeline Management

Past Performance & Corporate Capability

  • CPARS Questions
  • Corporate Capability Support, Updates, & Additions
  • Past Performance
  • FOIA Requests

Templates

  • NDA & TA Templates
  • Proposal Templates
  • Resume Templates
  • Transmittal Letter & Letter of Commitment (LOC) Templates

Business Strategy

  • Business Planning
  • Capture Planning/Federal Opportunity Planning
  • Fee for Service
  • State Strategy

Federal Proposal Support

  • Cost Proposal Support on Federal Contracts
  • Federal Portal User Registration Support
  • Support for Federal Research Competitions

Find Funding

  • Funder Research & Intelligence Gathering
  • Funding Opportunities
  • Support with Foundation Funding

General Proposal Support

  • NDA & TA Questions
  • Proposal Examples & Support
  • Small Business Support
  • State & Local Vendor Lists

General ID Requests & Training

  • Business License Registrations
  • General Institutional Development Requests
  • Training

About Us

Institutional Development (ID) offers a variety of supports to guide business development, identify funding opportunities, cultivate partners, support proposal development, and build program capacity including:

  • Identifying funding opportunities
  • Supporting proposal development
  • Building staff capacity in proposal & business development
  • Developing business plans
  • Analyzing proposal data and trends
  • Researching new funders and prospective partners
Email Institutional Development Inside WestEd Page

Hours of Operation:

Monday – Friday
6AM to 5PM PT
(excluding WestEd holidays)

General ID Requests & Training

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  • Business License Registrations

    Submit questions about state business license registration.

  • General Institutional Development Request

    Submission form to collect general information about the request that can’t be located in the service catalog, please provide as much detail as possible so that we may assess and resolve your request.

  • Training

    Request training for staff on working with foundations, developing federal proposals, developing and supporting state and local proposals, and PAC.

Business Strategy

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  • Business Planning

    Developing and implementing your annual business plan. Could include a plan for your area team, division, or service business plan.

  • Capture Planning/Federal Opportunity Planning (Pre-Solicitation, Non-Research)

    Provide support for future federal opportunities. Assist teams to make bid decisions. Capture management is a business development approach to increase win probability. Aspects of capture management include:

    Qualifying business opportunities to inform pursuit decisions.

    Analyzing the competitive landscape to inform refinements to our solutions that neutralize competitors’ strengths.

    Evaluating potential partner organizations to inform teaming strategy.

  • Fee for Service

    Creating new fee for service offerings, growing existing services, promoting summer institutes, developing standard list pricing.

  • State Strategy

    Support to develop a business plan to grow work in a state or region or hold State Education Agency (SEA) Networks/Convenings.

Federal Proposal Support

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  • Capture Planning/Federal Opportunity Planning (Pre-Solicitation, Non-Research)

    Provide support for future federal opportunities. Assist teams to make bid decisions. Capture management is a business development approach to increase win probability. Aspects of capture management include:

    Qualifying business opportunities to inform pursuit decisions.

    Analyzing the competitive landscape to inform refinements to our solutions that neutralize competitors’ strengths.

    Evaluating potential partner organizations to inform teaming strategy.

  • Cost Proposal Support on Federal Contracts

    Federal Request for Proposal (RFP) reviews, pricing, price to win strategy, Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA) & Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract proposals, and task orders.

  • Federal Portal User Registration Support

    Assistance with federal portal user registration (research.gov, grants.gov, justgrants.gov, eRA Commons).

  • Support for Federal Research Competitions

    Get help deciding on a competition, vetting process support, coordinating narrative reviews or other internal Quality Assurance (QA) steps, ask questions about process, get background information on competitions and WestEd submissions (organizational experience).

Past Performance & Corporate Capability

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Find Funding

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  • Funder Research & Intelligence Gathering

    Research new funders/agencies, conduct market/business/competitor research, build key client contacts/relationship map, navigate eligibility and budget challenges, conduct environmental scans, research forecasted opportunities, conduct merger and acquisition research, guide outreach strategy and provide coaching.

  • Funding Opportunities

    Reviewing and sending out funding opportunities from federal, state and local agencies, and foundations, maintaining and strengthening funding opportunity groups, subscribing to funding opportunity lists, determining WestEd eligibility for a solicitation or funder.

  • Support with Foundation Funding

    Get help locating and engaging with foundation funders.

Templates

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General Proposal Support

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PAC Support

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