Captivator solves government bidding and contracting challenges via radical simplification. Captivator's process guarantees exponential bidding volumes, leading to greatly increased solicitation-to-award ratios.
Captivator distills the complex government bidding process into 5 simple steps:
- AUTO-FILTER - Automated solicitation filtering
- AUTO-ASSIGN - Automated salesperson bid assignment
- AUTO-RFQ - Automated Vendor RFQ's
- AUTO-SUBMIT - Automated bid submission
- AUTO-AWARD - Automated award intelligence
AUTO-FILTER Automated solicitation filtering
Captivator automatically filters the daily avalanche of government solicitations to each user's specific field of expertise. No more manual searches are necessary. Each Captivator user receives only pertinent solicitation information pre-selected per your filtering criteria by our system and displayed daily in an easy to use dash board.
AUTO-ASSIGN Automated salesperson bid assignment
Captivator automatically assigns each solicitation to a specific salesperson within your organization. Captivator allows you to pre-assign specific brands and or product categories to your sales staff. This can either be done as an auto-assign or can be selected by each user manually. Each salesperson then views their selected solicitations in a pending bid tree which displays all ongoing bids segregated by government due date order and value.
AUTO-RFQ Automated Vendor RFQ's
Captivator saves you massive amounts of work and time, thereby exponentially increasing your bidding volume. You no longer have to send any vendor RFQ's. Captivator will automatically send them to each vendor you select. Captivator simultaneously sends multiple RFQ's to all approved MFG's or OEM's associated with each solicitation you work on. Captivator will not only send a direct RFQ to your approved OEM's but also to their respective authorized distributors, so you may rapidly shop around for the best price.
AUTO-SUBMIT Automated bid submission
Captivator eliminates the need to manually submit government bids directly on government websites. Our system allows for a single click submission. All that you need to do is to enter your delivery and unit price and Captivator will do the rest. In less than one second, Captivator will submit the bid directly to the government eliminating the previous need to fill out 30 or more data field point per solicitation.
AUTO-AWARD Automated award intelligence
Captivator automatically collects your awards in real time every day as they are issued. Captivator will also send an automated notice of each contract award to the designated user. Furthermore, Captivator not only collects your awards but also your lost bids allowing for including the creation of extensive lost bids reports by Captivator.
| Solicitation filtering |
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Similiar Services |
| Fully Automated and interactive dash board displayed |
Incomplete e-mail |
| BID OPPORTUNITY DISPLAY METHOD |
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Similiar Services |
| Database Graphic User Interface (GUI) |
E-mail to user Inbox with zero market intelligence |
| FILTER TYPES |
FSC, NSN, Cage Code , Keyword |
| FSC, NSN, Cage code, Keyword |
N/A |
| Submission due date threshold |
N/A |
| Multi Vendor relationship types |
N/A |
| Estimated Contract Value thresholds |
N/A |
| Internal bidding history |
N/A |
| Competitor markups |
N/A |
| Competitor winning history |
N/A |
| Competitor/manufacturer partnerships |
N/A |
| Obsolete NSN omission |
N/A |
| On-hand inventory and open PO's |
N/A |
| User adjustable filters |
N/A |
| KEY DETAIL SUMMARY PAGE |
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Similiar Services |
| Key detail dynamic dash board |
N/A |
| Competitor business size and type (Small/Large + MFG/Broker) |
N/A |
| Estimated contract Value |
N/A |
| Picking criteria Explanation |
N/A |
| Freight cost per unit calculation |
N/A |
| Packaging & labeling cost |
N/A |
| Government procurement History |
some |
| Internal user's bidding history |
N/A |
| Competitor markups and lost bid history |
N/A |
| IRRELEVANT PICKED RESULTS (TRASH) |
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Similiar Services |
| Less than 5% |
Greater than 90% |
| AUTOMATED BID PROCESS |
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Similiar Services |
| 1 second Customer Bid creation |
N/A |
| Fully automated SRM™ ERP system |
N/A |
| Multi Vendor Request For Quote (RFQ) generation |
N/A |
| Salesperson pending bid trees by due date and contact value |
N/A |
| Scanning additional hardcopy documents into bid record |
N/A |
| OEM Portal integration |
N/A |
| Paperless communication between sales staff and pricing managers |
N/A |
| AUTOMATED BID SUBMISSION |
| Captivator |
Similiar Services |
| Single mouse click Auto-Submission on Government website |
User must submit manually on government website |
| Submission summary page saved into database |
N/A |
| Confirmation of successful submission saved into database |
N/A |
| Single Auto submission for each individual bid |
N/A |
| Automatic Record removal from salesperson pending bid tree |
N/A |
| AUTOMATED AWARD INTELLIGENCE |
| Captivator |
Similiar Services |
| Real time daily award collection |
E-mail link |
| Live stats of assigned / followed up / submitted / Awarded |
N/A |
| Ranking report - User's rank VS competition |
N/A |
| Lost bids report including competitor markups |
N/A |
| Over 35 years of government contracting experience |
N/A |
| SUPPORT |
| Captivator |
Similiar Services |
| Immediate live response + in-depth tutorials |
Mostly slow or unresponsive |
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