Acu-Elligent developed the VETR methodology — Value, Experience, Teaming, Responsiveness — and built VETR Proposal, the AI platform that puts it to work. It is for federal contractors ready to move from consulting engagements to a proposal system their own team runs.
The methodology comes from four decades inside federal acquisition, on the side of the table that reads proposals rather than writes them. Every rule the platform scores against traces back to that experience.
The VETR Methodology
Value
What the government actually gets for the money, stated in the terms the evaluator is scoring against — not the terms you would use to describe your company.
Experience
Past performance positioned as evidence, so a small business with a short record still reads as a credible, low-risk award.
Teaming
The right partners, the right structure, and the paperwork that holds it together — prime, sub, joint venture, or Mentor-Protégé.
Responsiveness
Every requirement in Section L and Section M answered, in order, with nothing missed. This is where most small-business proposals are eliminated before anyone reads the technical approach.
What the Platform Does
Reads the solicitation — a full-package shred of Sections L and M into a working requirements list
Builds the compliance matrix and gates submission until every requirement is answered
Scores bid/no-bid against a 14-criterion capture framework, so you can walk away early
Estimates win probability with the VETR Score™
Tracks your pipeline and flags recompetes before the incumbent gets comfortable
Manages teaming partners, letters of intent and the RACI for a joint bid
Keeps a past-performance library you can pull from instead of rewriting it each time
Walks the submission through to a portal hand-off, with a record of what was sent
Consulting or Software — Which Do You Need?
These are two different things, and it is worth being plain about which one you are buying.
Acu-Elligent consulting is hands-on. We analyse the solicitation with you, write and review the proposal, validate your registrations and certifications, and position your past performance. That work is done by people, for you.
VETR Proposal is software. It does not write proposals on your behalf — it is a platform your own team uses to do that work faster and without missing requirements. If you have someone who can write, the platform makes them dramatically more effective. If you do not, start with consulting.
Many contractors use both: consulting to win the first award, the platform to scale after it.
See Where You Stand
The VETR Readiness Assessment is free and needs no account. It scores your readiness to pursue federal work and tells you what to fix first.
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