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Loopio Alternative for Engineering Firms
Loopio is built for enterprise proposal teams answering questionnaire-style RFPs. RFPM is built for engineering firms of 15 to 200 staff that are selected on qualifications: resumes, project sheets, SOQs, and SF330s from one set of records.
Loopio is built around
the approved answer
- Question-and-answer pairs in a library
- Questions routed to subject-matter experts
- Questionnaire-style RFPs and security forms
RFPM is built around
the person and the project
Maria Alvarez, PE
Registrations by state, role on each of 14 projects
County drainage program
Client, contract value, dates, team
Generated for each pursuit from this sample record
Why engineering firms look for a Loopio alternative
The unit of content is different
A question-and-answer library fits proposals that are lists of questions. An engineering SOQ is scored on people and projects: who held which role on which project, for which agency, at what value, how recently. That evidence is a record about a person or a project, not an answer to a question.
Resumes and project sheets are most of the page count
Tailored key-personnel resumes, project experience sheets, and SF330 Sections E and F are the documents a qualifications package is made of. They need to be generated in the firm's own template from current data, not assembled from stored paragraphs.
The proposal team is one or two people
Enterprise proposal platforms are designed around routing questions to many subject-matter experts and managing review cycles across a large library. A firm of 15 to 200 staff with one coordinator pays for workflow it does not run.
Loopio vs. RFPM at a glance
| Dimension | Loopio | RFPM |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Enterprise proposal and sales teams across industries | AEC firms of 15 to 200 staff, public-sector work |
| Unit of content | Question-and-answer pairs in a library | Structured records for each person and each project, plus a library for repeated text |
| Typical document | Questionnaire-style RFP, security or due-diligence form | SOQ, RFQ response, state DOT prequalification, on-call submittal, SF330 |
| Key-personnel resumes | Stored as content | Generated per pursuit from the profile, in the firm's Word or InDesign template or SF330 Section E |
| Project experience sheets | Stored as content | Generated from project records for SOQ, state DOT, and SF330 Section F formats |
| Team and project selection | Manual | Ask RFPM Agent recommends staff and projects from the records; a person selects |
| Question routing to experts | Core feature | Not offered |
| Trying it | Demo and enterprise contract | First paid month on your own data, cancel any time |
RFPM or Loopio: who each one is for
Who should choose RFPM
- Civil, transportation, water, and multidiscipline engineering firms, and construction management consultants, selected on qualifications
- Firms with 15 to 200 staff where one or two people produce every proposal
- Teams whose proposal hours go to rebuilding resumes and project sheets, not to answering questionnaires
Who should stay with Loopio
- Firms whose proposals are mainly questionnaire-style RFPs, security reviews, or due-diligence forms with hundreds of stored answers
- Proposal teams that route questions to many subject-matter experts and manage review cycles across divisions
- Multi-industry firms where engineering qualifications packages are a small share of the work
Frequently asked questions
- Can RFPM replace Loopio at an engineering firm?
- If the firm's proposals are qualifications packages, yes: SOQs, RFQ responses, state DOT prequalification, on-call submittals, and SF330s, built from staff resumes, project experience sheets, and reusable qualifications text. RFPM generates those documents from structured staff and project records and includes Ask RFPM Agent for questions and drafting from the firm's own data. If the firm mainly answers long question-and-answer questionnaires, such as security or vendor due-diligence forms, that is Loopio's core use case and not RFPM's.
- How is RFPM different from Loopio?
- Loopio organizes proposal content as a library of question-and-answer pairs and routes questions to subject-matter experts, which fits enterprise teams answering questionnaire-style RFPs across many industries. RFPM organizes content as records about people and projects, because engineering firms are scored on who worked on what, for which agency, in which role, and how recently. Its outputs are the documents those evaluations ask for: tailored resumes in the firm's own template or SF330 Section E, project sheets for SOQ, state DOT, and SF330 Section F formats, and a library for the qualifications text that repeats.
- Does RFPM handle the questionnaire parts of an engineering RFP?
- Partly. Standard answers such as firm overview, QA/QC approach, safety record, and insurance statements live in the reusable content library and are pulled into pursuits. Ask RFPM Agent can draft answers grounded in the firm's records with the source linked. RFPM does not offer a question-routing workflow to subject-matter experts or a review-cycle engine for thousands of stored answers.
- Who is RFPM sized for?
- AEC firms with 15 to 200 staff, where one or two people produce every proposal. RFPM is priced by the firm, not the person: the staff whose resumes you store never count as seats, and the first paid month is the evaluation on your own records. RFPM is not a general RFP tool for software, IT, or other firms outside architecture, engineering, and construction.
Start a pilot
Bring a real submittal. We will run it on your data.
Thirty minutes on a pursuit your team is chasing this quarter. You will see the resumes and project sheets come out of your own records. If the fit is not there, we will tell you.
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