Post-Award Strategy for Kickoff, Reporting, and Sales Enablement Winning an RFP is often treated as a finish line, but the award is the beginning of a new phase. A strong…

Across the country, school districts are moving beyond traditional renovation models and reconsidering space through a strategic lens. The guiding question is shifting from “How do we modernize?” to “How…

There has been a progressive evolution in the Higher Education market, with the rules of engagement shifting without notice. From a research perspective, this shift was not an overnight occurrence,…

The rapid, urgent expansion of high-dosage tutoring across the country, with its potential for immediate and significant impact, resembles the early years of the Science of Reading movement. A set…

Many vendors sense that buyers have become more demanding and less patient, and lack understanding of what has shifted and why. Higher education institutions and public agencies increasingly want vendors…

State and local government RFPs often contain a similar format and documents such as detailed requirements, mandatory forms, and strict deadlines, but the market is changing. Public-sector procurement is under…

There is a particular kind of quiet that settles over an RFP team when win notifications slow down and people keep working, but the energy shifts. Leaders begin to ask…

Teams that respond to RFPs every week know how easy it is to get stuck at a plateau. The process is in place, deadlines are met, compliance boxes are checked,…

I can be an anxiety-ridden moment when the IMRA quality report lands in a publisher’s inbox. No matter how strong the submission felt, opening these critical documents means facing the…

RFP SchoolWatch IMRA 2026 Series – February 3 Edition By February, the chaos of Form B uploads, ISBN checks, and last-minute component edits gives way to a calm that is…