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Experience and a Breakdown of How We Save Your Organization Money!

RFP Independent Consultants is owned and operated by Pat McElroy, a TS cleared and successful professional in Proposal Management, writing and editing, procurement compliance, desktop publishing, and graphic design. Pat has over 25 years of combined experience in commercial, federal, state, and local government proposal response development. Her extensive knowledge spans across areas such as the DoD (Army, Air Force, Navy, USSOCOM, INSCOM, DHS), information technology, Health and Human Services, aircraft industry, financial services, and transportation.

Most companies and Business Development professionals are not aware that the same proposal consultants that are available through a costly, big, consulting agency are available as direct, contract 1099 employees. These professionals are the same individuals that work through agencies in order to be connected to multiple deployment opportunities.

The only difference - you hire them direct therefore saving you and your company

a great deal of expense. Agencies regularly upcharge their clients anywhere from

50% - 100% based off of a consultant’s standard hourly rate for their services.

For example, your company may pay $175 - $250 an hour for an experienced Volume

Lead or Proposal Manager through a larger consulting agency. These same consultants only receive $80 - $125 an hour for their services from the same agency. The additional costs charged by the consulting agency to your organization are a combination of covering overhead costs and pure PROFIT.

You can decide - Is it better to hire a consultant at $225 an hour through an agency or hire the same person directly as an independent consultant for much less?

Let’s see –

6 weeks at 40 hours a week = 240 hours

240 hours at $250 an hour (through an agency) = $60,000.00

240 hours at $125 an hour (hired as a direct consultant) = $30,000.00

A savings of $30,000! Half of what you would pay through a large consulting agency.

To see brief descriptions of the quality of consultants available through

RFP Independent Consulting, LLC, please click here.