AI-Powered Narrative Scoring & Smarter Workflows: What’s New in ProPricer Q3

For government contractors, proposal pricing has become a balancing act between cost, compliance and speed - and the pressure is only increasing. According to this year's Deltek Clarity Study, nearly half of the firms are already turning to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to optimize operations, while two-thirds cite efficiency improvements as their top strategy for managing rising costs. The message is clear: contractors need smarter, more adaptive tools to stay competitive.

That's where the latest Deltek ProPricer release comes in. For contractors still relying on manual or legacy tools, it offers a clear path to modernization by uniquely combining innovation with compliance-first controls. And for current ProPricer users, it delivers enhancements shaped by real-world feedback to keep teams ahead of the curve.

With new capabilities designed to deliver AI-powered insights, streamline workflows and strengthen control, proposal and pricing teams can cut manual work, improve accuracy and collaborate more effectively. Whether you're a pricing analyst building estimates or a manager ensuring compliance, these enhancements are built to help you move with confidence where it matters most.

Real-Time Proposal Intelligence with BOE Narrative Scoring Agent

This Q3 release debuts the BOE Narrative Scoring Agent - that provides intelligent, real-time feedback on Basis of Estimate (BOE) narratives. Proposal teams can quickly identify strengths, close content gaps and elevate overall quality before submission.

BOE Pro Narrative Scoring Agent provides real-time feedback and helps accelerate proposal quality.

This means proposals are not only developed more quickly, but with greater precision - improving win-readiness and giving contractors an advantage in highly competitive bids.

This release also delivers gap-closing features requested by major prime contractor programs. By responding directly to their requirements, we're reinforcing trust with customers and ensuring BOE Pro stays aligned with their most critical proposal needs.

Streamlined Workflows that Save Time

This version delivers a series of usability and workflow upgrades that reduce manual effort and make day-to-day tasks more efficient. This includes:

• Enhanced External Systems Integration (ESI) and document processing with options to export results to Excel, insert skill mix tables into different sections and suppress blank fields for cleaner outputs.

  User-friendly External Systems Integrations (ESI).

• Warning prompt when deleting data on import to safeguard critical proposal inputs. An interactive pop-up alerts users when importing data that could overwrite existing inputs, helping prevent accidental deletions and ensuring users have the information they need to make the right decision.

  Warn users when deleting data on import with an interactive pop-up to prevent accidental deletion.

• Sync Report that captures changes during sync or submit actions for greater transparency and traceability.

  Capture and trace proposal changes with Sync Report.

• Proposal Breakdown Structure (PBS) and Task auto-numbering to keep proposal structures consistent and organized, with flexibility to enable or disable as needed.
• Improved visibility and usability with better BOE View and Estimates View, instruction pop-up formatting, and more intuitive workflows for linking BOE/SOW elements.

By simplifying routine steps, these enhancements can cut hours of manual rework per proposal - freeing teams to focus on the strategies and pricing decisions that drive wins.

Built-In Safeguards for Accuracy and Compliance

Maintaining data integrity and audit readiness is more important than ever. This release continues to strengthen governance and compliance with:

• Required Indirect Pool assignments to minimize pricing errors and enforce cost standards.

  Indirect Pool assignments ensure accurate and auditable pricing.

• Validation safeguards that prevent duplicate resource fields, ensuring clean and consistent data.
• Improved access controls, with automatic inclusion of access tags from both templates and users when creating new proposals.
• Customizable Resource ID auto-numbering to reduce redundancy and simplify large proposal imports.

These safeguards not only help contractors avoid costly mistakes and simplify audits but also demonstrate accountability to government customers - a critical factor in sustaining long-term trust and contract performance.

Cost Volume Pro Enhancements that Simplify Document Management

The Q3 release also introduces significant updates in Cost Volume Pro (CVP), including:

• Document editing improvements with Word-style paragraph formatting, text capabilities in the Structure section and streamlined section copying.

  Enhancements that simplify document management.

• Collaboration upgrades with comments integrated into the activity feed for review and resolution.
• Smarter document management through bulk file uploads, linked document references and flexible document processing options.
• Template-driven updates and resettable headers/footers to maintain consistency across large and complex documents.

Similar to BOE Pro, these updates also reflect input from leading prime contractor programs. By addressing complex document and collaboration needs head-on, this release showcases that Cost Volume Pro evolves in lockstep with customer challenges - giving teams confidence their requirements are built into the roadmap.

These enhancements make it easier to keep multi-hundred-page cost volumes consistent, clear and submission-ready - reducing risks of delays, errors or rejections that can jeopardize contract opportunities.

Driving Proposal Excellence

With AI-powered narrative scoring, streamlined workflows and built-in compliance controls, the latest version of ProPricer empowers teams to deliver higher-quality proposals with less effort while ensuring data integrity and audit readiness.

For contractors already using the solution, these updates demonstrate our responsiveness to evolving customer needs and commitment to delivering real-world value. And for contractors considering ProPricer, this highlights how the platform blends innovation and compliance, making it easier to compete, win and grow in today's high-stakes contracting environment.

Want to explore these updates in more detail? Visit the Deltek Learning Hub for training resources, product walkthroughs and expert guidance.

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