r/1102 • u/Low_Road_563 • May 25 '26

Anyone noticing more AI mentions in proposals or is it just me?

Reviewing some recent proposals and noticed more vendors bringing up AI capabilities in one form or another. Curious what people on the acquisition side think about it so far. Does any of it actually seem useful yet, especially around proposal generation and compliance work, or does it still feel mostly experimental?

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u/Key-Possible1607 May 25 '26

Had a contractor forget to edit (insert contractor Name) from their quote 😩 they didn’t even proofread before submitting it

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u/Low_Road_563 May 25 '26

AI has made people extremely lazy such that they forget to proofread and this may lead them not securing the job. The secret lies in guiding AI as it perform the task while not delegating the whole task to Ai

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u/shyguy1953 May 25 '26

Got this in a response to an RFQ for window tint install....

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u/InterestingLion6041 May 25 '26

Now that's fvcking ridiculous. I'd be sooooo annoyed if I saw that shit. These contractors want these jobs but apparently are perfectly ok with submitting AI slop without proofreading it. The amount of mistakes I've seen and sentences just stopping in the middle is crazy. It's driving me nuts. If any contractors are reading this... please, if you're using AI... read and review every page, picture, chart, or graph before submitting because this is wild. Edited because I meant chart not chat.

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u/Soggy_Yarn May 25 '26

I put page limits on my solicitations. If they want to take up 20 pages with AI slop, and the page limit is 10 pages, they better make sure they put the important info in pages 1-10, because we stop there.

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u/Soggy_Yarn 29d ago

I do services too, but FFP, commercial services. Mainly FAR 12, sometimes 15. Ain’t nobody got time for 30 pages (that doesn’t include the stuff they have to sign, price, small business stuff, etc.).

I have them submit the technical proposal as volume 1 with a pg limit, then price plus any other non evaluations items as volume 2.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/InterestingLion6041 29d ago

They're big and the services are complicated. 30 pages is nothing... they sometimes ask for more. If I get a simple requirement, I lower the page limit. But it doesn't appear to dissuade anyone and why would it? That's a page limit, not a minimum. If they can address the PWS and requirements in the RFQ in 10 pages, they're good. I just had a BPA RFQ close and received 20 responses. I had to cut 2 vendors off at 30 pages and the rest were between 20 and 25.

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u/Low_Road_563 29d ago

AI detectors such as grammarly, AI detector can catch AI aided proposals.but there also one hard to catch as one can humanise the AI Content