From Opportunity to Award
Our five-phase engagement model gives your organization a clear, repeatable path to winning, whether you’re pursuing a new opportunity or defending an incumbent position.
1. Assess & Qualify
We evaluate the opportunity, your position, and the competitive landscape to make a clear bid recommendation.
2. Capture & Position
We build your win strategy, develop discriminators, design teaming structures, and begin customer intelligence.
3. Design & Write
We develop your technical approach, manage writing assignments, and produce evaluator-ready volumes.
4. Review & Strengthen
We lead color team reviews—pink, red, and gold—ensuring compliance, quality, and competitive strength.
5. Submit & Debrief
We manage final production, submission, and post-award debrief—learning from every outcome to build your next win.
Why Farouk Consulting
What Makes Us Different
There are many proposal consultants. Very few have led $5B federal pursuits, secured €5M in donor funding, managed $500M portfolios, and built winning teams across 30+ countries—all while running their own practice.
Operator Turned Advisor
Dr. Farouk Umaru has not just written proposals—he has implemented the programs that resulted from them. As a program director and technical leader at Amentum, Credence, and USP, he knows what evaluators look for because he has been the one delivering on those promises. That operational credibility makes our proposals fundamentally more credible.
20+ years delivering, not just advising
Global Health Domain Depth
We bring unmatched technical depth in global health supply chains, laboratory systems, pharmaceutical quality, PEPFAR programs, and USAID/CDC/GIZ-funded initiatives. Our technical writing doesn’t sound like consultants guessing—it sounds like someone who has run these programs, because we have.
30+ countries of direct program experience
Multicultural Team Intelligence
Winning complex international awards requires building and leading diverse teams across governments, NGOs, biopharma firms, and local partners spanning multiple continents. We bring the cultural fluency, stakeholder alignment skills, and leadership experience to hold complex consortia together under proposal pressure.
€5M GIZ award won through multicultural consortium leadership
Recompete Specialists
Most organizations begin their recompete strategy when the solicitation drops. We begin 12–18 months before—building the evidence base, shaping the narrative, addressing evaluator concerns, and positioning the team to make a compelling incumbent defense. We know what it takes to keep what you’ve earned.
Results That Speak
Numbers from Dr. Umaru’s direct engagement leadership, not aggregated firm statistics.
- $5B largest federal IDIQ proposal led to submission
- €5M New GIZ donor funding secured via proposal win
- $150M+ Total partnerships & contracts won across career
- 10+ Proposal engagements completed since 2025
- 30+ Countries with direct program implementation
- 100% On-scope, on-budget delivery at USP & JSI
- 500+ Professionals trained & mentored globally