Gold Team review

Executives with authority to commit the company read the near-final proposal and price. They confirm the offer, the staffing and key personnel commitments, the terms they are agreeing to, and that the Red Team findings were addressed. Many companies combine it with the final pricing approval.

Gold Team is the last of the color team reviews, followed by production checks: page limits, formatting, forms, the cross-reference matrix and the submission itself.

Using Gold Team to reopen strategy, scheduling it so close to the deadline that its comments cannot be applied, and skipping a final compliance check after the last edits.

Gold Team also confirms the business case still holds. If the price, the staffing commitments or the terms have changed since the bid/no-bid decision, executives decide whether to submit as planned, adjust the offer or, rarely, withdraw. That decision should be recorded with its reasons.