Business Development and Planning

Business Development and Planning

Based in Media, PA

At Center of Efforts, LLC, we take a systems thinking and social networking approach when it comes to strategic and tactical planning. We have specially designed our services to help you use purposeful network development for charting a specific business direction in order to navigate an ever-changing landscape.

We also offer the following additional services:

Marketplace management

Designed to equip you to understand, be aware of and respond to changes in your marketplace

Trend analysis

Focused on future trends, science, and technology advances with the implications of each for your business

Scenario planning

To determine potential what-ifs for specific market trends and/or customer changes

Building public private partnerships

Resource planning and development

Bridging the
tech gap

Center of Effort, LLC helps small and medium-size businesses forge bridges of understanding to help extinguish the technology gap. The specific services that are designed to help transition technology from the Federal Labs system and/or universities into new or existing products include:

Technology assessments and roadmaps
Product development and evaluation services
Outsourced engineering, design, and R&D Systems

Project management services to help individual companies access:
- Federal laboratory and university-based sources of technology and funding
- Industry-based strategic alliances and partnerships

These services were crafted to focus on helping companies to mitigate risks while increasing their opportunities for local, state, and federal services, grants, and funding that will support their growth.

P3
consulting services

Every quarter more and more government and public authorities are turning to public–private partnerships (P3s) to deliver efficient and cost-effective infrastructure and services. That’s because they know what we’ve already figured out: P3s can help public sector entities shorten delivery times, share risks with each, get more bang for their buck, and increase innovation in their infrastructure and provision of services. These kinds of partnerships allow private sector organizations to apply their skills and experience to infrastructure development and operation and gives them the opportunity to mobilize finances for long-term infrastructure investments.

Services for public agencies and P3 consortiums:

Public agencies as customers

P3 advisory services
Potential P3 project evaluation
Review of documents related to bid and proposal development
Management of the bidding process
Communications with bidders and management of clarifications and post bid submission process
Bid response and proposal evaluation

Marketing and outreach services
Community and public involvement programs
Communications and public relations
Organization development and employee training programs
Conference/workshop development and management

P3 consortiums as customers

Center of Effort provides carefully crafted services that are specific and unique to you to support consortium efforts fully in the P3 project market.

Market and business development services

Uncover potential project opportunities and maintain an active database of developing projects and their project stage/status with key dates
Analyze and then advise the management team on which P3 opportunity matches your company’s strategic plan and goals
Source the equity and non-equity partners that fit your corporate culture
Support and manage the decision-making process by developing the business case for the project
Follow internal and external developments related to the project

Bid proposal project management services

Manage the bidding process
Analyze the bid documents
Manage the partners and advisers on bid preparation
Project manage the bid preparation and submission of the Statement of Qualification (SOQ) and the Proposal/Best and Final Offer (BAFO) accurately and on time
Follow up on the bidding process with the issuing authorities
Manage the financial modeling and scenario analysis

Outreach and public relations

Research and define the stakeholder’s concerns and issues
Prepare a stakeholder outreach plan
Manage stakeholder relationships and communications
Develop and manage the public relations campaign
Build and manage the relationships with partners and advisers
Manage the ongoing communications with the sponsor and/or the public agency/authority that owns and manages the asset