RFP Research

Talk to the RFP before you give it a principal hour.

Upload the document and ask it anything. Foveate reads it against your resumes, your past projects, and your capabilities, then tells you whether to pursue it and builds the response deck from the answer.

RFP research workspace
The first read

The answer is in the document. It is on page 61.

What you need to qualify a pursuit is spread across the RFP, the addenda, your old proposals, and three people's memory. Foveate pulls the deciding facts out on the first pass, then answers whatever you ask next.

Sunrise County Medical Center

RFP 2026-118 · 94 pages · indexed

Answering…
What would disqualify us from this RFP?
Three things. A LEED Gold requirement on the primary structure, a $2M professional liability minimum, and a mandatory pre-bid meeting on March 4. You carry $5M and you have four LEED Gold projects. The pre-bid meeting is the real risk. It is not on anyone's calendar yet.
Who on our team covers the acute care experience they want?
Dana Whitfield led two acute care renovations at your last firm and is named on both. Marcus Lee covers the MEP coordination requirement. You have no one who matches the infection control credential in section 4.2, so that is a subconsultant or a gap you disclose.
Have we built anything close to this?
Three past projects match on program and scale. Riverside Medical Pavilion is the strongest: same bed count, same phased occupancy constraint, delivered under budget. I can pull it into a response deck with the drawings and the client reference already attached.
Ask anything about this RFP

Matched against what you actually have.

Generic AI reads the RFP and writes something plausible. Foveate reads it against your firm and will only name a project or a person that actually exists in your library. Where you have no evidence for a requirement, it says so as a gap.

Team Match

Every requirement, mapped to a name on your team.

Foveate reads the personnel requirements and matches them against your resumes and project histories. You see who qualifies, who nearly qualifies, and where you have nobody.

  • Named staff matched to each required role and credential
  • Gaps surfaced early, while you can still add a subconsultant
  • Resumes assembled into the format the RFP asks for

Team fit

RFP 2026-118 · staffing and qualifications

Reading…

Principal-in-Charge, acute care renovation

Dana Whitfield · Two acute care renovations, named on both

MEP coordination lead

Marcus Lee · Meets the coordination requirement in 3.1

LEED Gold delivery experience

4 projects on file · Riverside Medical Pavilion is the closest

Infection control credential, section 4.2

No match on staff · No one on staff holds it. Subconsultant or disclose.

M/WBE participation, 8 percent goal

No match on staff · No certified partner identified yet

Two gaps to close. Add the infection control credential and an M/WBE partner, or disclose both. Everything else is covered by someone already on the team.

Past projects matched to RFP scope
Project Match

The three past projects that prove you can do this.

Your project history is searchable by program, scale, delivery method, and constraint. The closest comparables surface with the drawings and client references already attached.

  • Comparables ranked by how well they answer this RFP
  • Relevant imagery and references pulled in automatically
  • No one digging through the server for the right project
From research to response

Say go, and the deck is already started.

The matched resumes, the comparable projects, and the requirements you answered become the first draft of your response. You edit and direct. You do not start from an empty page.

  • A structured response deck built from the research
  • Sections mapped to the evaluation criteria they score on
  • Live link with tracking, and a PDF when procurement insists
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Okay, generate me a proposal now from this RFP.

Pulling in the materials

Matched resumes, the three comparable projects, and the compliance answers.

Adding the images

Drawings and photography from Riverside Medical Pavilion.

Proposal is ready

Sections mapped to the evaluation criteria they score on.

Sunrise County Medical Center Proposal

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Ask for a change, or open it and edit

The decision

Go or no-go, with the reasoning attached.

Every pursuit you decline early is 40 hours you keep. Foveate scores the fit against your team, your work, and your win history, and shows you what drove the number.

Fit score

Scored against personnel, project comparables, and compliance. Not a vibe. A number you can defend in a partner meeting.

What would have to be true

The specific gaps that turn a no into a yes. Add the credential, add the partner, or walk away with the reason on record.

A record either way

Win or lose or decline, the assessment stays attached to the pursuit. Your next go/no-go is sharper than your last one.

Stop guessing which pursuits are worth it.

Every RFP you decline early is a week your team spends on the one you can actually win.