BMAD-METHOD/expansion-packs/bmad-rfq-government/tasks/review-simulation.md

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# Review Simulation Task
## Purpose
- Simulate government evaluator review process to identify proposal weaknesses
- Evaluate proposal content against Section M criteria
- Identify compliance gaps and areas for improvement
- Provide structured feedback for proposal enhancement
- Reduce risk of negative evaluation findings
## Usage Scenarios
### Scenario 1: Section-Level Review
1. **Section Selection**: Choose specific proposal section for review
2. **Criteria Mapping**: Identify applicable evaluation criteria
3. **Evaluation Simulation**: Score section against criteria
4. **Improvement Recommendations**: Generate specific enhancement suggestions
### Scenario 2: Full Proposal Evaluation
1. **Evaluation Planning**: Establish review approach for entire proposal
2. **Comprehensive Review**: Evaluate all sections against criteria
3. **Findings Compilation**: Aggregate strengths, weaknesses, and gaps
4. **Strategic Recommendations**: Provide prioritized improvement plan
## Task Instructions
### 1. Evaluation Preparation
**Preparation Process**:
1. **Evaluation Criteria Analysis**:
- Extract Section M evaluation factors and subfactors
- Identify scoring methodology (adjectival, numerical, etc.)
- Determine relative importance of criteria
- Map criteria to proposal sections
2. **Review Team Setup**:
- Define review roles (technical, management, past performance)
- Establish scoring guidelines and standards
- Create evaluation worksheets
- Set up review documentation process
3. **Baseline Establishment**:
- Determine minimum acceptable scores
- Identify critical success factors
- Establish evaluation priorities
- Define "must win" criteria
4. **Competitive Context**:
- Consider likely competitor approaches
- Identify areas requiring differentiation
- Determine competitive benchmark standards
- Assess relative strengths and weaknesses
### 2. Evaluation Simulation Process
**Simulation Methodology**:
1. **Pink Team Review** (Early Compliance Check):
- Verify requirement coverage from compliance matrix
- Check section alignment with RFQ structure
- Identify missing content or requirements
- Assess initial win theme integration
- Provide early course correction guidance
2. **Red Team Review** (Evaluator Simulation):
- Score proposal using Section M criteria
- Identify strengths, weaknesses, risks, and deficiencies (SWaRD)
- Evaluate technical approach feasibility
- Assess management approach effectiveness
- Review past performance relevance and quality
- Provide detailed scoring rationale
3. **Gold Team Review** (Executive Assessment):
- Evaluate overall proposal strategy effectiveness
- Assess executive summary impact
- Review key discriminator presentation
- Evaluate proposal from senior decision-maker perspective
- Provide high-level strategic guidance
4. **Final Review** (Pre-submission Verification):
- Confirm all previous review findings addressed
- Verify compliance with all requirements
- Conduct final quality and consistency check
- Ensure all evaluation criteria are addressed
- Provide submission readiness assessment
### 3. Findings Documentation
**Documentation Components**:
1. **Strengths Identification**:
- Document positive discriminators
- Highlight effective win theme integration
- Note areas exceeding requirements
- Identify compelling evidence and proof points
2. **Weakness Documentation**:
- Flag compliance gaps or omissions
- Identify unclear or unconvincing content
- Note areas lacking evidence or proof
- Highlight potential evaluation concerns
3. **Risk Assessment**:
- Identify solution or approach risks
- Note areas with insufficient risk mitigation
- Flag potential pricing or resource risks
- Document compliance or responsiveness risks
4. **Deficiency Reporting**:
- Document non-compliant elements
- Identify missing required content
- Flag incorrect or misaligned responses
- Note formatting or structural issues
### 4. Improvement Recommendations
**Recommendation Process**:
1. **Prioritized Enhancement Plan**:
- Rank findings by impact on evaluation
- Identify critical vs. nice-to-have improvements
- Create actionable improvement tasks
- Establish timeline for revisions
2. **Section-Specific Guidance**:
- Provide targeted recommendations by section
- Suggest specific content enhancements
- Recommend additional evidence or proof points
- Propose structural or organization improvements
3. **Strategic Adjustments**:
- Recommend win theme refinements
- Suggest competitive differentiation enhancements
- Propose emphasis shifts based on evaluation priorities
- Identify opportunities for strategic messaging
4. **Implementation Support**:
- Provide examples or templates for improvements
- Offer specific language suggestions
- Recommend graphic or visual enhancements
- Create revision checklists for authors
## Best Practices
- **Evaluator Mindset**: Review from the perspective of government evaluators, not proposal authors
- **Criteria Focus**: Base all evaluations strictly on Section M criteria
- **Evidence-Based**: Provide specific examples for all findings
- **Constructive Approach**: Frame weaknesses with actionable improvement recommendations
- **Prioritized Feedback**: Focus on highest-impact improvements first
- **Objective Assessment**: Evaluate based on what's actually in the proposal, not what authors intended
- **Comprehensive Coverage**: Review all sections against all applicable criteria
- **Documentation Discipline**: Maintain detailed records of all findings and recommendations
## Integration Points
- **Compliance Matrix Generation**: Verifies requirements coverage
- **Win Theme Development**: Assesses theme effectiveness and integration
- **Proposal Content Generation**: Provides feedback for content improvement
- **Submission Checklist**: Ensures all compliance issues are addressed
## Related Agents
- **Evaluator Simulator**: Primary agent for this task