PPAS (Proposal Pricing & Analysis System)
Mainstay’s flagship product is used by many government
contractors and aerospace/defense industry agencies for preparation, analysis, presentation and evaluation of proposals.
Introduced in 1989, it has continued to gain recognition as
the tool of choice for proposal pricing and source selection professionals. What makes PPAS unique? Its flexible and robust
nature!PPAS offers:
- User control and maintenance of accounting structure
and pricing methodology without vendor assistance Very
robust pricing analysis capabilities Extensive
reporting that enables generation of input or priced data viewed from any combination of relevant perspectives at any level
of detail or aggregation Ad hoc customization
when needs demand Extension of use beyond contract
award to collect actual project data Preparation
and analysis of change orders Integration with
other acquisition analysis tools Modular components
to enable license of software that serves the level of complexity of your pricing process and your checkbook
- Electronic integration of sanitized subcontractor proposals
with the prime’s proposal thus improving the efficiency with which the team’s proposal can be prepared and updated
Given the capabilities of PPAS, many major defense contractors and systems integrators now view PPAS as a cost-effective
tool that is uniquely responsive to the sophisticated, ad hoc, dynamic demands of proposal cost and price analysis.
Who Uses PPAS?
PPAS is currently being used very successfully by a variety
of contractors, all of whom are doing work on major projects for agencies of the Federal Government.
PPAS has also been required in dozens of Government RFPs for
competitive and sole source procurements by agencies such as the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), National Geospatial
Intelligence Agency (NGA), United States Air Force, United States Army and NASA.
As the sampling of PPAS clients below indicates, PPAS
addresses the needs of a wide range of contractor types and sizes:
Alliant Tactical Systems
Boeing
Lockheed Martin
TRW
United
Defense
Cubic Defense
Sperry Marine
Parsons Corporation
Caelum Research Corporation
