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What is Privia?

Privia's bid capture and proposal management tools are designed for companies handling RFPs / RFIs in the public sector. Privia offers both SMB and Enterprise products and pricing starts at $29 / month / user.

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Easy Customization: Reviewers have praised Privia for its easy customization of workflow process design, allowing users to configure …
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Good for Proposals.

7 out of 10
March 01, 2014
Across the whole organization to keep all our sensitive documents updated and shared
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Pricing

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Subscription

$29.00

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $29 per month
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Product Details

What is Privia?

Privia aims to be the government contractor’s go-to solution for the development of high-quality, stand-out proposals. Privia is designed specifically for the proposal team; to facilitate the process workflow, synchronize the teams assignments and deadlines, and empower team collaboration. The vendor states over 10,000 users from small, mid-size, and enterprise organizations leverage Privia every day to improve productivity, save time and deliver the proposal quality today's evaluator's demand for the win.

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Privia Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Privia's bid capture and proposal management tools are designed for companies handling RFPs / RFIs in the public sector. Privia offers both SMB and Enterprise products and pricing starts at $29 / month / user.

Privia starts at $29.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Privia are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Easy Customization: Reviewers have praised Privia for its easy customization of workflow process design, allowing users to configure properties and track demanding procedures with real-time reports on their status. Several users have mentioned that this feature enhances their ability to adapt the software to their specific needs.

Powerful Reporting Capability: Many users have highlighted Privia's powerful reporting capability, which enables them to customize their view of data by selecting fields and adding filters to generate selected exportable data. This functionality has been particularly useful in generating insightful reports tailored to different project requirements.

Commenting Feature: The commenting feature in Privia has been consistently described as unique and highly useful by reviewers. It allows frequent reviews with extended project teams to be done concurrently, significantly improving efficiency and enabling more users to fully participate in the review process.

Limiting reporting feature: Some users have expressed frustration with the limited availability of certain fields in the reporting feature, stating that it can be restrictive and limiting for their needs.

Expensive customization process: Several reviewers have mentioned that the customization process for each customer can be expensive. While it does help overcome some limitations in the reporting feature, this cost may deter some potential users.

Confusing check-out and in process: The check-out and in process in Privia's version control system has been found confusing by a number of users, requiring them to seek assistance. Despite its good commenting capability, this aspect of Privia's functionality could use improvement to enhance user experience.

Users highly recommend Privia and offer several key recommendations. They emphasize the importance of understanding business processes and continuous improvement. Additionally, they advise having a demo and trying out Privia on an upcoming opportunity. It is also suggested to talk to a company currently using Privia and include technical personnel in the demo. Moreover, users recommend planning the implementation well in advance and evaluating multiple products before making a decision. Lastly, they mention the need for buy-in from all contributors or authors. These recommendations highlight the value of thorough evaluation, collaboration, and proactive planning when considering Privia as a solution.

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Danielle N. Silva Aceituno | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The previous company I worked for uses Privia as the primary tool to support all Federal Government Bids & Proposals worth $300K or more. Privia is specifically used by the Corporate Strategic Proposal Support Team to track the proposal from start to finish. Specific users included, but were not limited to, the following: Proposal Managers, Proposal Coordinators, Proposal Writers (Technical, Management, Resumes, etc.), Capture Team (VPs & Contracted SMEs), Proposal Editors, Financial Team, Subcontractors, etc. All users associated with the specific bid / proposal were added to the Privia Workspace with various permissions, trained, and set loose on the proposal. The Proposal Manager maintained control over the entire workspace throughout the life of the proposal, added various review team members when necessary, and removed permissions as applicable. During review teams, each review team member was able to actively comment and suggest edits to the document in live mode, and the document lead locked the document for editing upon closure of the review team to ensure no overwrites were made. Overall, Privia proved to be a highly successful tool in storing all Bid / Proposal documents while maintaining control over the ever-evolving Proposal itself. I highly recommend Privia to any company looking to standardize their proposal process.
  • Document Repository with standardized Folder Structures: Privia has the ability to create customized & standardized Privia workspaces with set training documents and folder structures as a foundation for each project. This helps assure that the process remains intact without jeopardizing quality throughout the lifecycle of each project / proposal.
  • Customized Workspace Permissions: Privia allows the Workspace owner to maintain control over who is able to view, edit, add / remove documents, add / remove additional users, etc. This is particularly helpful when dealing with classified information such as financial data, as well as ensuring that corporate strategies are protected when it comes to subcontractors. There are many instances where subcontractors would like to share certain information with the prime, but would like to keep their data separate from other subcontractors also working on the same project / proposal.
  • Commenting / Editing and Lock Feature Tools: Privia has the ability to allow multiple users to comment and edit upon the same document simultaneously. This is highly useful when it comes to proposal review teams. At the end of each review team, the comments are consolidated and the document lead can lock the document for editing so that no changes may be made while the comments are taken into consideration, accepted, or rejected.
  • Limited Licenses: Privia sells licenses by the bundle. However, the licenses can get extremely pricey. To help mitigate this issue, the company administrators do a sweep of the user licenses every 3 weeks to ensure that all licenses are being maximized. This process is very time-consuming, considering that we have hundreds of proposals going on at the same time. There have been many instances where various users have had to be deactivated because their license had not been used within the last 2 months, and then reactivated a few days later because they are working on a new proposal. Our administrators are also part of the Corporate Strategic Proposal Support Team, so this can be inconvenient if all administrators are working on multiple proposals. Time management and cross-training is key to balancing the number of active licenses.
Privia is well-suited for project / proposal management in terms of working on a live proposal or massive document of sorts. However, it is not ideal from a business analytics standpoint. If you are looking for graphical representations and/or snapshots of your project / proposal at a glance, Privia is not for you.
  • Privia has been highly successful for maintaining control over our larger efforts ($300K+). A standardized process and complimentary process tool is highly effective when coordinating between 50+ people. All users have the ability to see the schedule at a glance, which pieces of the proposal they are a part of, etc. With additional permissions set, there is little room for confusion when users do not have access to information that is not relevant or pertinent to their role.
  • MS SharePoint,Power BI For Office 365
MS SharePoint is a great tool to use for smaller efforts - such as Task Orders. However, it is not capable of handling high volume efforts. Additionally, SharePoint does not allow for comments to be made without locking down the document, which is simply not ideal for review teams when multiple users are reviewing a single document. MS SharePoint additionally has a history of security issues from the back-end, and any user / subcontractor could find their way into classified information that should be better protected. As for Office 365, it is more beneficial from a senior management position. It allows for graphical representations and manipulations of certain data so that senior management and project / program managers may see the project / proposal in snapshot form. However, it may be a bit too involved from a proposal standpoint. In the end, I believe that Privia is definitely a better, more organized option when coordinating between various users and companies that not only protects the proposal, but also the company.
5
I recently switched careers from working within the consulting world of Federal Government Contracts to International Sales and Global Solutions. Though we do work with proposals to a certain extent, our company does require a more robust system that includes a document repository, business analytic tools, project management tools that reflect our process and lifecycles, and corporate tools.
No
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
  • Vendor Reputation
  • Existing Relationship with the Vendor
  • Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
We were already using Privia Platform 4, so the transition to Privia Platform 5 was an easy decision. All gliches / bugs that occurred in the previous version had been fixed, and additional features that benefited the user were added. The most beneficial feature was the Delegate Feature, which allowed the Workspace Owner to assign their Proposal Coordinator as their Delegate. This freed up the Proposal Managers' time because their right-hand man/woman was able to make the same changes to the workspace such as adding / removing users, etc. that the PM did not have to do.
This question isn't truly applicable to my experience, as we were simply upgrading our platform. However, during the various meetings held with the Privia staff and our company's Senior Management, the issue of total number of licenses were not addressed. This became an apparent problem several weeks after the upgrade and never got resolved before my departure from the company. I would probably say that if we had to do the upgrade all over again, I would not have liked to proceed with the process without determining the additional number of licenses needed.
Each company is assigned an account manager whom you can contact directly with any questions, comments, and/or concerns. You may contact them directly via email and they will submit a ticket via their system for you or you can submit a ticket through their system and they will contact you immediately. All issues are resolved in a highly timely manner, and the customer service is impeccable. All accounts folks are well-trained from a customer service and technical standpoint and will escalate the issue as necessary depending on their expertise - though, that is rarely a necessity. Should they be unavailable, you will be notified prior to their leave / departure and assigned a secondary contact in the meantime. Overall, I was beyond impressed with Privia's customer support services.
Yes
Absolutely. All accounts folks are well-trained from a customer service and technical standpoint and will escalate the issue as necessary depending on their expertise - though, that is rarely a necessity. Should they be unavailable, you will be notified prior to their leave / departure and assigned a secondary contact in the meantime. Overall, I was beyond impressed with Privia's customer support services. See answer to previous question for further details.
When our company upgraded from Privia Platform 4 to Privia Platform 5, the transition was more than smooth. The external Privia support team handled the upgrade to our servers entirely on their own and then sent our company's administrators specific instructions to test the new system prior to going live. Each of us scheduled a time to do the tests together, and then sent any bugs / gliches that we found to the support team. The Privia team was quickly responsive, and were able to complete the entire upgrade and go live in less than 48 hours with minimal effort on our part. With the company being a $4 Billion company, I found the entire process to be quite impressive.
Greg Barr | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Privia across the organization for the entire opportunity management process from business development leads through post-proposal submission. The main problem it addresses is configuration management of the myriad aspects of opportunity processes and procedures from the time a business development executive sees a lead twinkling in the eye of a customer to the herding of a large partnership team members involved in the many-hued review stage of the Shipley proposal process (or any other process you care to design in Privia's customizable workflow tool). Along the way, like the customizable workflow process, Privia gives the manager enormous flexibility in role assignments, role level security, internal and external user accessibility, automation and standardization of repeatable procedures, customization of data fields, and metadata search potential. I must add that it is not all things to all people and there are limits to this customization, but if you get that far you will be an appreciative user.
  • Easy to customize workflow process design with accountable and acceptor assignments, among other configurable properties, that can track the most demanding procedures and provide real-time reports on their status.
  • Built-in browser toolbar that automates the capture of volumes of information on government (and private sector) opportunity postings on FBO, GovWinIQ, and others.
  • Although there are some limitations, it has a powerful reporting capability that allows you to customize your view of the data by selecting fields and adding filtering to generate selected exportable data.
  • As mentioned in strengths, there are limitations to reporting in that some fields are not available or only available in one of the four report "types" when you'd like that field in another report type. Some fields are not selectable at all it would seem. My understanding is the Privia can accommodate further customization for each customer at a price, so even this limitation can be overcome.
  • Privia has a great version control and commenting capability that includes commenting on graphics files, but the check-out and in process are not always intuitive to many of our users and require some hand-holding. In addition, the commenting capability, which supports concurrent users, produces an export to Word with comment fields but doesn't mark up the document itself - whether that is a blessing or a curse is really up to your team and editing style.
The only hesitation I have is that Privia, while powerful, is a complex tool to learn and a change management challenge for most organizations (I've been in a few and it would have been a challenge to implement in all of them except my own brief partnership, well maybe not even then). So I don't want to recommend it without the caveat that you should be prepared to support its adoption at the highest level of your company - if you aren't the CEO, make sure you have their complete buy-in. I also want to add that Privia has the best customer support of all the vendors that I'm currently dealing with and many I have dealt with in the past. Their Tier 1 support is very responsive and knowledgeable and resolved our issues 100% of the time. The management is very open to input from its customers and they are a pleasure to deal with.
  • Improved efficiency in capturing opportunity data and keeping timely information available across the organization
  • Improved senior management reporting capability for pipeline meetings
Its been too long since we did our due diligence, I don't even remember the names of the competitive products. Privia stood out at the time and meeting users at their annual conference was a strong reference for the product.
We have renewed and our constant use of the tool and their customer service are the primary reasons.
5
Business Development, Proposal Management
1
Basic software administration knowledge
  • Managing the business development pipeline
  • Managing the proposal response process
  • Reporting opportunity management to executive leadership
  • customizing the workflow for better monitoring
  • expanding the license base to include more users directly
No
  • Product Features
  • Product Reputation
  • Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
Presentation of the product features and invitation to the annual conference influenced our decision
The only factor might be an extended trial utilization prior to decision but who has time to learn a system completely just for evaluation?
  • Vendor implemented
Yes
Contributor training followed by executive training
Change management was a major issue with the implementation
Strong senior leadership commitment and enforcement is a must. If the targeted participants resist learning and using the system and get away with it, the implementation will not be successful. You need to ensure that all players in the workflow are committed to following the accountability and acceptance process and that they use the information capture tools, supplemented by their personal knowledge, to capture all known data into an opportunity.
  • Lack of participation in training
Staff commitment is paramount
100% timely resolutions
The Privia stuff worked past normal working hours for us to make sure we were prepared and successfully implemented the most recent version upgrade.
  • Process Designer
  • Administration and user account management
  • Importing from outside opportunity sources
  • Metadata
  • Customizing the Opportunity Info view of fields
Elements of field view customizing are very restricting
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