Every topic, every proposal, every award. One record.
Topics publish on time, every firm gets the same answers, and every action is recorded, cycle after cycle.
Same program, same deadlines, same scramble.
Topics arrive in different formats. Questions get answered by email. Firms re-enter last year’s details. And when an award is questioned, someone rebuilds the record from exports and inboxes.
What changes when the cycle runs in one place
Topics ready before release
Topics are created, reviewed, and approved in one workflow before they publish, and every topic under a solicitation inherits its dates and rules. Change something once and it changes everywhere.
Every firm gets the same answer
Questions go to a named technical point of contact, get approved, and post publicly, so every firm sees the same answer at the same time, on the record.
Company registers once
A small business registers once, its details carry into every proposal, and its team can work on the same proposal together. Less paperwork means more firms compete.
The next cycle starts ahead
Every submission and action is timestamped on one record, and firms that won can be invited back to longer-term opportunities. Reports, reviews, and next year’s setup start from the record instead of a rebuild.
Built for the offices that fund outside firms
Program offices
SBIR, STTR, and other funding programs at the component and department level, running a calendar that repeats every year.
Agencies
Federal agencies with a funding program of their own, from defense to energy, space, and health research, configured for its topics, forms, and rules instead of rebuilt for them.
Built for the way funding programs actually work
Topic workflows
Topics are created, reviewed, and approved before they publish, with a version history that shows what changed and when.
Topic search
Hundreds of topics, searchable by the firms looking for a fit and the staff who manage them.
Questions and answers
Each question is assigned, approved, and published on the record for every firm to see.
Proposal forms
Multi-section forms that several editors can work on together, with firm details filled in and cost totals calculated by the system.
The record
Every submission and action is timestamped. Certification captures what was certified and by whom, and exports and standard reports come straight from the record.
Customizable design
A flexible workflow and tasking system shapes Acquire around the way the program already runs. No-code design tools make every site look like the program’s own, without a developer.
Built with your office, not just for it
Mission Success configures Acquire to the program’s rules, moves prior cycles over and checks them, and gets staff and reviewers ready before the first topic goes live.
Built for Impact Level 4
Proposals, scores, and award decisions are sensitive long before anything is announced. Acquire keeps them in an environment built for government programs, where program staff, reviewers, and firms each see only what their role allows.
Built for Impact Level 4, hosted in the United States
CAC or PIV for government users; custom SSO configuration
Set by role, with every action logged
Published topics readable without an account
Questions programs ask
Does it replace what we already use?
It brings the work around the cycle into one place: the topic spreadsheets, the inbox for questions, and the exports that become the record. The program keeps its own rules and forms, and Acquire carries them so each cycle is configured, not rebuilt. Prior cycles can be moved over and checked.
Is it only for SBIR and STTR?
No. Acquire runs any solicitation that funds outside firms through topics and proposals. SBIR and STTR are the most common examples.
How does a program buy it?
Collaboration.Ai’s prior SBIR work makes it eligible for sole-source Phase III awards. Under 15 U.S.C. § 638(r)(4), those awards may be made without further competition. Where Phase III does not apply, we’ll work with your office to find the contracting pathway that fits.
How is it different from Source and Intelligence?
Acquire runs funding programs from topic to award. Source runs open calls and idea campaigns from open to close. Intelligence handles the research around both, at any point in the cycle: who is working on the problem, what has been funded, and who could deliver, with every finding traced to its source. All three run on NetworkOS.
Your rules, your forms, ready on day one
Topic intake, solicitation, proposals, award, and phase management, cycle after cycle with Acquire.
Contracting vehicles
Direct award pathways, no new competition required.
Collaboration.Ai’s prior SBIR work makes it eligible for sole-source Phase III awards. Under 15 U.S.C. § 638(r)(4), those awards may be made without further competition.
Where Phase III does not apply, we’ll work with your office to find the contracting pathway that fits. Contracting vehicles →