qualifying-opportunitieslisted

# Qualifying Opportunities Run a disciplined bid/no-bid gate review on a US Federal opportunity and produce a defensible recommendation. The expensive mistake in federal BD is not losing a bid — it is spending bid-and-proposal money on bids that were never winnable. This skill exists to make that decision deliberately, on evidence, against a consistent standard. ## When to use this skill Use this skill when a user needs to decide whether to pursue or bid a federal opportunity, at any gate: - A new lead or sources-sought notice has appeared and the question is whether to invest capture resources. - A draft RFP or RFP has released and the question is whether to bid. - An opportunity already in the pipeline is reaching a gate review. Do not use this skill to *build the win plan* — that is `planning-capture` and `developing-win-strategy`. This skill decides whether there should be a win plan at all. If the decision is already made and the user wants positioning work, route to those skills instead. ## Inputs **Preferred upstream artifacts** (from the pursuit workspace, if present): - `03-competitive-assessment.md`: sharpens the competitive-position scoring. - `04-price-to-win.md`: sharpens the financial and competitiveness scoring. **Without them**, the skill still runs: it scores competitive position from what the user knows and records the lower confidence. A bid/no-bid decision is often made *before* deep competitive and price analysis exists; that is expected. Read `.