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Pryzm’s Modular Videos

  • Contracts: Drawing directly from USA Spending and FPDS data, Awards are all of the contracts awarded through the opportunities at hand. This includes IDIQs, CSOs, OTAs, Primary Awards, Sub-Awards, and more.
  • Budgets: Parsed to the Program, Project, and Cost-Element level, budgets serve primarily as our breakdown of the Justification Books (JBooks). 
  • Campaigns: Campaigns depict progress and provide situational awareness around a single capture effort. Campaigns are housed within Pipelines.
  • Companies: Any company listed with a Cage Code and UEI (i.e. with a SAM registration) will surface under Companies.
  • Congress: Our database of House and Senate members, committees, and relevant legislation.
  • Constellation: An interconnected strategy map built from various entities spanning Pryzm data and your own Records.
  • Cost Element: The most granular level of budget data, derived from Programs (two levels above) and Projects (one level above).
  • Feeds: Using a short description and some associated keywords, build out Feeds to catch all of the relevant Opportunities associated with your query. These are sent to your email at your discretion, or navigable within the platform.
  • Government Organizations: Scraped from thousands of publicly available data sources, Gov Orgs represent the customer base. In most cases, these are represented hierarchically to express each Gov Org’s parent, child, and more where available.
  • Lists: Build out lists to keep tabs on specific sub-selections of items. Examples include known speakers at an event, competitors in a given space, potential teaming partners, and more.
  • Market Sizing: Built either as a lagging indicator (using, for example, awards data from previous awards given by an agency) or as a forecast (given the Future Years Defense Program or FYDP), derived from budget data. Market Sizing allows you to better understand an effort’s potential and answers the question: is investing in this effort now going to be profitable later?
  • News: Drawing from numerous free sources, News allows you to collect intel on the Opportunities you’re pursuing.
  • Node: Represents a dynamic element of a Constellation. One Node could be any entity within Pryzm: People, Organizations, Opportunities, and more.
  • Opportunities: Requests for information (RFIs), Requests for Proposals (RFPs), Solicitations, Pre-Solicitations, etc. Opportunities are all of the ways the government customer advertises business needs. Example sources: SAM.gov, Tradewinds, various consortia. 
  • Organizations: Within Records, Organizations are all of the Companies and GovOrgs you’ve ingested to your CRM. Organizations can also be custom built from within the Organizations module, or uploaded using a CSV.
  • People: Within Records, People are all of the People you’ve ingested into your CRM. As with Organizations, People can be uploaded at scale via CSV or custom built.
  • Pipelines: Pipelines are where Opportunities are managed and tracked through Campaigns. Once you’ve either found an Opportunity you’d like to pursue, or you’ve built an opportunity from scratch, populate your Pipelines with Campaigns and view your capture motion as an aggregate.
  • Portfolios: Our custom market sizing tool that allows you to compile budget line items into a unique, customizable market.
  • Programs: Structured efforts with defined objectives that deliver a specific capability or system, such as a weapons platform or IT system. They are funded and tracked over multiple years through Program Elements (PEs) in the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process.
  • Projects: Subdivisions within programs that represent distinct, manageable efforts, often technical or developmental tasks, contributing to the overall program goal. They provide granularity in budgeting and execution.
  • Records: Anything you’ve built or ingested into your CRM is a Record. These items are trackable, dynamic, and yours - collaborative individual workspaces for each element of your HUMINT.
  • Requests for Information (RFIs): A GovOrg’s ask of the market for capability statements, scoping, estimates, and more. These typically precede and inform Requests for Proposals once the GovOrg has collected enough information about the opportunity space.
  • Requests for Proposals (RFPs): The natural derivative of RFIs. Once a GovOrg establishes a requirement, it aligns funding to said requirement and solicits industry input. Submitting competitive bids to RFPs is the bridge to winning Awards.
  • Workflow: The collection of steps around executing a given or desired behavior. Pryzm’s workflows are explained in detail within this User Guide.