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Gate Reviews & Capture

Plain-language definitions of every Gate Reviews & Capture term that shows up in government contracting work.


Gate Reviews & CaptureARB

Acquisition Review Board (ARB)

An Acquisition Review Board is a government body that reviews and approves acquisition strategies, contracting approaches, and major procurement decisions before a solicitation is issued to industry.

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Bid Qualification Gate

A bid qualification gate is the first formal go/no-go checkpoint in a capture process where leadership evaluates a newly identified opportunity against minimum qualification criteria before assigning pursuit resources.

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Capture Readiness Review

A capture readiness review is a mid-capture gate assessment that evaluates whether a pursuit has sufficient intelligence, strategy, and team alignment to proceed toward proposal development.

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Gate Review Process

The gate review process is a structured capture management framework where leadership evaluates pursuit opportunities at defined milestones before committing resources to the next phase of bid development.

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Go/No-Go Decision Framework

A go/no-go decision framework is a structured evaluation tool that government contractors use to assess whether to bid on a specific opportunity based on win probability, strategic fit, and resource availability.

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Gate Reviews & CaptureIRB

Investment Review Board (IRB)

An Investment Review Board is the senior leadership body in a government contracting firm that approves bid and proposal budget allocations and makes final go/no-go decisions on strategic pursuit opportunities.

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Milestone Decision Review

A Milestone Decision Review is a formal DoD acquisition gate where the Milestone Decision Authority evaluates a defense program's readiness to proceed to the next phase of development or production.

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Proposal Readiness Review

A proposal readiness review is a pre-proposal gate assessment confirming that all prerequisites for a competitive proposal effort are in place before the RFP is released and writing begins.

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TechStat Review

A TechStat review is a structured federal government session where agency leadership and OMB officials intervene on at-risk or troubled IT investments to drive corrective action and performance improvement.

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