Fractional proposal management and expert QA for government contractors. 10+ years bidder-side. Shipley-trained.
Discuss your bidSee servicesTwo shifts in 2026 changed what a winning proposal takes. I’m built for both of them.
AI-generated proposals hallucinate requirements and miss Section L/M compliance. I catch what the tools miss — as someone with 4+ years hands-on AI experience, including self-hosted local models, not just a reviewer reading output.
The 2026 FAR overhaul has agencies operating under class deviations and rewritten clauses. I map compliance to the solicitation as written — not as it was — so generic boilerplate doesn’t sink your bid.
Ten years managing federal proposals as the bidder: shredding RFPs, building compliance matrices, leading color teams, recovering red teams, writing the volumes. I know where bids break because I’ve fixed them there.
Every engagement is scoped and priced for the opportunity — timeline, complexity, and the team involved all factor in. It starts with a scoping call — if I’m not the right fit, I’ll tell you.
Own your proposal end to end: RFP shred, compliance matrix, annotated outline, schedule, contributor management, color-team leadership, and submission. The proposal manager you need for this bid, without the full-time hire.
Expert review before your color teams — or a red-team lead who finds the compliance gaps, weak win themes, and inconsistencies while there’s still time to fix them.
A standalone teardown: requirements decomposed, compliance mapped to response sections, ambiguities and risks flagged — the foundation your team builds on.
Your team used AI to draft — now make sure it didn’t invent requirements, miss Section L/M, or flatten your win themes into generic paste. A forensic pass by someone who operates the models.
Orals deck QA and strategy: does the story hold, does it map to the evaluation criteria, and will it survive the Q&A? Slide-level review, not stage coaching.
Technical, management, and past-performance volume writing and substantive editing — original narrative built from your SMEs and evidence, not assembled from old bids.
The person behind the work.
Katy Dordai is Principal Consultant at Amburd, LLC, a woman-owned small business. She has spent 10+ years managing competitive federal proposals from the bidder side — from RFP analysis through submission — across federal health, defense, and civilian agencies.
She is Shipley-trained in federal proposal management and writing, and previously served as ISO 9001 Quality Management Process Owner through a clean surveillance audit. Her review work spans technical, management, and past-performance volumes, with formal color-team leadership and red-team recovery.
She also brings 4+ years of hands-on AI experience, including self-hosted local models, applied to proposal QA: identifying hallucinated requirements and compliance gaps in AI-assisted drafts.
Built for bid timelines, not consulting theater.
Send the solicitation and your deadline. I’ll read it before we talk.
Thirty minutes: fit, scope, schedule, fixed price. No obligation.
Embedded with your team, remote, on your bid’s timeline — typically 30–45 days.
Compliant, reviewed, on time. Then I’m gone until the next bid.
Send the RFP and the deadline. I’ll tell you honestly whether I can move the needle — and what it costs.
Email Katykaty@amburd.com
Tell me what you need and when the bid is due. I reply within one business day.