Sales & Business Development
Proposal Approval
Get the priced scope in front of the customer and secure a signed commitment.
- Trigger
- Priced estimate handed off from the Estimator.
- Owner
- Sales Director
- Inputs
- Priced estimate.
- Required conditions
- Sales Director review complete.
Steps
- Review the estimate.
- Package it as a customer-facing proposal.
- Send the proposal to the customer.
- Negotiate terms within approved pricing exceptions.
- Record the customer's decision.
Decision points
- Does the customer accept, request changes, or decline? → Revise and resend, or close as lost.
- Outputs
- Sent proposal; customer commercial decision recorded.
- Handoff
- General Manager / Executive
- Failure / exception path
- Customer declines or goes silent past the SLA window — opportunity marked lost with a reason, feeding win/loss reporting.
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Future automation opportunity
Auto-flag proposals awaiting customer response past the Customer Communication Standard SLA window.
Required data
- Proposal sent date
- Customer response date
- Outcome and decline reason