Recording a bid, and what came of it: your own record on a saved notice
How to mark on a saved notice that your business sent a response, and later the result, in a record that is your own.
The Firmenza team ·
What is Your response?
A year into federal work, the question that is hardest to answer from memory is a simple one: which notices did we respond to, when, and what came of each? Your response is a card on the page of every notice you saved in Firmenza, under your own date and your private note. Its first line says what it is: this is your own record, kept on your account. Mark what has happened, with its date.
It is a record of what your business did, in your own words and on your own say-so. Nothing on the card is checked against SAM.gov, nothing is sent to the agency, and no AI writes or reads it.
How do I mark that my business sent a response?
On the card, Date your business sent a response starts at today, and you can change it to the day it happened. Then press My business sent a response. The card now reads, with the date you gave, that you marked your business sent a response on that day, and offers Undo beside it.
A date in the future is refused, with the card asking you to choose today or an earlier date. If you marked the wrong day, Undo takes the mark back, and you mark it again with the right one.
How do I mark the result?
Once a response is marked, the card says: when you hear the result, mark it here. Date of the result takes the day you heard, and two buttons record what you heard, one for an award that went to your business and one for an award that did not. The card then shows both marks, each with its date.
The result cannot be dated before the response, and the card says so if you try. While a result stands, the response underneath it cannot be undone: Undo on the result comes first, then the response, so the record is never left with a result and no response.
What happens to the record?
It stays on your account. The record keeps its notice's identity, so it outlives the notice leaving your saved list, and it goes when the account goes. Firmenza keeps each mark and each undo as its own entry, so a mark you took back is not lost, only undone.
The same mark with the same date, pressed twice, changes nothing. And too many changes in a short time are refused for a moment, with the card asking you to wait a little and try again.
Why keep it at all?
Because the next solicitation may ask for past performance, and the evaluators' rules on a business with little federal history are the subject of our guide on that. A dated record of what you responded to, and what came of it, is the raw material for the references and the descriptions a future response asks for, kept where the notice itself is.
It is also the plainest measure of your own year: how many notices you answered, and what each one came to. Firmenza draws no conclusion from it and makes no promise about the next one. Our guide on contract opportunities in Firmenza goes through the rest of a saved notice's page.
Free help also exists: APEX Accelerators (DoD-funded, free) and the Federal Service Desk will help you at no charge. We built Firmenza to be useful alongside them.
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