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Q2: What does Accelerate do?
Q3: What are Accelerate’s 5 Levels of Service?
Q4: Who are the Accelerators assigned to your contract?
Q5: When do clients hire Accelerate?
Q6: Why do clients hire Accelerate?
Q7: How do clients hire Accelerate?
Q8: How do clients pay for Accelerator expenses?
Q9: What is the Accelerate hourly and daily rate?
Q10: When can an Accelerate team start?
Q1: What is Accelerate's Mission?
A1: Help our clients accelerate their business performance.
Q2: What does Accelerate do?
A2: Accelerate provides expertise in 5 phases of the business development lifecycle
Planning | Positioning | Pursuit | Proposal | Performance
Q3: What are Accelerate’s 5 Levels of Service?
A3: Accelerate 5 Levels of Services are
- Assessment and Review
- Staff Augmentation
- Active Management
- Turnkey Solutions
- Combinations
A4: Accelerate is staffed with experienced program managers, systems engineering and domain experts who have typically been vice presidents or business unit managers. They have proven track records of being winning capture managers, winning proposal managers and successful program managers.
Q5: When do clients hire Accelerate?
A5: Clients hire Accelerate when they
- Must win!
- Need the best
- Need an A-TEAM
- Desire senior expertise
- Desire additional expertise
- Desire 3rd party involvement
- Have too many simultaneous projects and your best leaders are busy
A6: Clients hire Accelerate because we
- Unify the team
- Optimize for the opportunity
- Provide comprehensive services
- Deliver experts in the desired fields
- Leverage extremely large resource pool
- Stay current with industry best practices
- Align to match specific customer scenarios
- Scale to meet different opportunity sizes
- Tailor to the specifics of each opportunity
- Flex to meet evolving needs
A7: There are multiple ways to hire Accelerate
- Time and Material (T&M) contracts
- Hourly rate plus travel, meals and living expense
- Day rate plus travel, meals and living expenses
- Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contracts
Accelerate is flexible and easy to contract.
Q8: How do clients pay for Accelerator expenses?
A8: Accelerate bills clients for actual expenses for lodging, vehicles, coach airfare, and other transportation expenses, billed according to the Federal Joint Travel Regulations (JTR) for T&M. Meals and Incidental Expenses (M&IE) will be billed on a per-diem basis according to the Federal JTR. Overseas expenses are billed on an actual and reasonable basis. All travel is in accordance with the Federal JTR. Business class travel is allowable for international flights if approved in advance and allowable in accordance with JTR guidelines.
Q9: What is the Accelerate hourly and daily rate?
A9: Please call our Director of Operations at (949) 500-0527 to discuss our current rates.
Q10: When can an Accelerate team start?
A10: Our Accelerators are ready to be deployed at a moment's notice. Once we receive authorization - we can have a team at your desired location immediately.