Twenty5

Pros: I am responsible for all Delaware's bids and proposals in aerospace and defense, the larger industry vertical sector for Delaware in the US. We also were one of the first management consulting firms in the US to adopt SAP S/4 Cloud as our ERP. Twenty5 allows us to build proposals and project plans on-line, as a team, with one single version of the approved cost estimate and not lots of disparate spreadsheets. Plus Twenty5 pre-loaded all of our labor categories and rates so we just have to copy the right template, tweak the resource plan (roles/schedule) and make pricing adjustments and everything gets automatically calculated

Cons: It's tough when especially you have to turn around a small proposal say "I need 3 people for 2 months to do xyz" not to go back to the trusty old spreadsheet. But then we end up winning a bunch of these small deals and have to manually input them back into our SAP S/4 Cloud project management toolset to keep track of them and to allow time-recording. So there is a discipline required to always using the Twenty5 tool for new bids, however small