VT Docs 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

VT Docs

4.9

(51)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About VT Docs

RFP Software for Government Contracting On average, customers increase their win rate by 9.8% with VT Docs. VisibleThread is a trusted partner to 11 of the top 15 US Government Contractors. Our cutting-edge technology supports thousands of users across a diverse range of organizations, from small businesses to mid-market and large enterprises. VisibleThread's flagship RFP solution, VT Docs, is leveraged across key sectors, including Defense & Space, IT Services, Healthcare, Engineering & Construction, and many more. Our customers face several common challenges when it comes to proposal development: - Highly manual processes: copying and pasting to create compliance matrices. - Analyzing contracts for risk (data rights, security, IP clauses, FAR/DFARS). - Identifying material changes in RFPs, SOW, contracts, etc. - Analyzing past performance data. - Qualifying new opportunities – making Bid/No Bid/teaming decisions (scoring against capabilities). - Finding relevant material quickly and accurately. - Creating written content from scratch. - Inconsistent quality of writing. With VT Docs you can automate tedious, manual doc review steps and improve the quality of your proposals. Here a...

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VT Docs Pricing and Plans

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VT Docs Features

Popular features found in Document Control
Archiving & Retention
Change Management
Electronic Signature
Version Control
More features of VT Docs
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
API
Audit Trail
Collaboration Tools
Compliance Management
Compliance Tracking
Content Library
Contract/License Management
Data Import/Export
Data Synchronization
Data Visualization
Document Automation
Document Generation
Document Management
Document Review
Document Storage
Multiple Output Formats
Process/Workflow Automation
Progress Tracking
Projections
Proposal Generation
Real-Time Notifications
Reporting & Statistics
RFP Management
Risk Assessment
Risk Management
Workflow Management

VT Docs User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.9

Ratings Breakdown

90%

10%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.7

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

4.9

Functionality

4.8

Michelle K.

Verified reviewer

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2017

Provides significant capability to quickly identify actionable information across many documents.

What used to take hours and days of reading, tagging and extracting key / actionable information from solicitation packages now takes us just seconds or minutes. As a user for about 2 years, it is obvious that the VisibleThread team continues to release new features and improve the others at a good pace. To speed up proposal reviews and improvements - we do this using the concept tracking features to make sure we addressed all of the specific contracts' specifications, instructions and evaluation factors. We use the compliance matrix features to speed up the process of making content and review assignments to team members. We use the content grammar and readability grading feature to quickly spot areas where we can be more concise and make our proposals easier for the average reviewer to understand. We run scripts that quickly identify deliverable / CDRL requirements to support transition planning, and; once we have won a contract, we use VisibleThread to quickly prepare briefing packages for the transition/implementation teams as we move from opportunity to contract in execution. While it takes your experts to setup the system to do these things, once configured, you can have anyone on your team run the analysis to perform any of the tasks I've described. My only wish - is that more contracting officers and procurement shops were using the tool to put out better and clearer/complete solicitations to industry.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Pros:

This is an experts' product that provides so many useful tools, that there is no way I can even begin to address them all in the word limit this survey allows. We continually come up with new methods to automate portions of our analytical and document preparation work with VisibleThread. We are a bid /proposal management firm supporting customers on over 100 proposal projects each year across a wide range of contract types that include construction, utility system privatization, public transit automation, security services, background investigation, and administrative services contracts with the Federal Government, and State and local governments as our primary focus areas. With VisibleThread, we have created many customizations (which are easy to implement) to specifically hone in on requirements and information specific to each type of industry and contract / bid opportunity we manage. Specifically, we can quickly breakdown information in solicitation documents and exhibits/specifications into sets of information that are directly relevant to each of the departments, operational groups and subject matter experts who are contributing to each bid / proposal effort. Examples; for construction and heavy civil projects, we breakout information IAW MasterFormat divisions to call out all Bid Items and speed up getting bid packages to estimators and subcontractors. We then use it to automatically inspect subcontractor bids and to compare them against each other (in seconds).

Brittony M.

Verified reviewer

Aviation & Aerospace

10000+ employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2020

Proposal Manager's helper

We have it set up on an internal computer so it's available for commercial and government proposals. Our team uses it a lot.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I use Visible Thread a lot for building acronym lists. It cuts the time down significantly by showing me what is spelled out and what isn't, where it is 1st used in the text and not spelled out, duplicates, etc. I can download a report, fix the document and create the first past list. I also provide reports to authors to improve writing such as passive and long sentences.

Cons:

It doesn't always catch the acronyms when they are not capitalized when spelled out which we do a lot so not to interrupt our readers concentration and retention.

Reasons for choosing VT Docs

It had more features for improving the writing and messaging.

Christina A.

Verified reviewer

Defense & Space

5001-10000 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2020

Great Vision

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The software user interface is easy to navigate and use. The features and capabilities appear robust without being overly complicated to review like other comparative software.

Cons:

It takes the vision; it requires multiple customized solutions which I believe turns many users away from actively exercising the software to its full potential. More out of the box dictionary starters or external support in establishing custom solutions to meet the needs of the various users would help initial roll out and active continued use over time.

Kelli M.

Verified reviewer

Government Relations

51-200 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2024

VT Docs for the WIN!

Positive, productive, informative, helpful, time-saving.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

There are so many incredibly effective features of VisibleThread. I feel like I’ve only scratched the surface. One standout is the document comparison feature, which reduces hours of work to less than 30 seconds. Identifying key customer keywords through their frequency in an RFP and incorporating them into our proposals is immensely valuable. You can create a repository of proposals, resumes, past performances, etc. and search against a new RFP to see what to use to raise your PWIN! As a Proposal Manager, the amount of time I save is invaluable. The customer service is impeccable – responsive and friendly. Overall, it is an impressive tool.

Cons:

I wish it could create proposal outlines for me!

Andrea R.

Verified reviewer

Defense & Space

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2024

VT Docs is AWESOME and a MUST HAVE!

This is great product! I can't imagine working a proposal without it! The Team at Visible Thread is amazing and always a pleasure to work with!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The Compare Docs, Readability Statistics, Compliance Matrix Creation and Acro List Function. (Not in this order). The personal service I got with [sensitive content hidden] was AMAZING!

Cons:

Nothing! They are always making improvements!

Henrik J.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2019

Amazing feature set

VisibleThread is perfect for breaking work bid documents and highlighting the content that is relevant to your business. This saves a ton of time when needing to review a bid and decide if it should be bid upon or not.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

While the most mentioned features are great, some of the more overlooked features are real time savers. The comparison tool for both PDF/Word and Excel are the best I have ever used. They provide a fast and outstanding overview of the changes to a document version. Also the acronym checker is excellent to help you verify that you have defined all your acronyms in your document.

Cons:

The time is takes to reload the folder structure, since all changes to th folder list or folder content forces a refresh. And with hundreds of folders, this can take some time.

Eric F.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2017

I use the VT for contracts reviews and RFP compliance matrix creation. It is exactly what I needed.

Saves me tons of time! Good for contractors and people reviewing complex documents. It has other feature for proposal readability, but I have not used those.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of Use High quality useful output Good comparisons Cloud services architecture Good support from VT Lots of best practice sharing and a good product development plan

Cons:

For some reason is says it will run slower if there are a lot of files in the folder. Not sure why this would be but rather than taking a chance, I move the files into spare folders.

Karthik K.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2020

True to its commitment - Increases pWin rates & productivity of proposal professionals

It was a complete package for any proposal management team. Ideally reduces the time taken to analyze the quality of a proposal and shred the documents. Biggest benefit is that it increases the productivity of a proposal professional. Neverthless its a onestop shop for producing a quality proposal

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Instant shredding of complex documents was an awesome feature for proposal managers. Swift preparation of the starting compliance matrix, responsibility matrix is definitely VT Docs' USP. Dictonaries were industry standard and customizable to every proposal team / organization Win Theme / Concept Analaysis / Readability / Compare docs & excel are some of the best complete

Cons:

There is a scope for continuous improvement of some features like dictonaries, customize the whitelists, etc.

Kai-J. K.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

VT @ BId Management

VT as a package is at the moment the only place where I have a complete set of tools which is required for my daily business in Bid Management. Shredding docs in minutes, creating responsibility matrices in Excel based on the results of the VT doc examination and the ability for Word and Excel comparisons without an additional set of tools is fantastic.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This software is what I am looking for since my life started as a Bid Manager. It holds all tools that you really need in one place. Creating document responsibility matrices and doing acronym searching with a click instead of searching documents manually save dramatically my time doing more important things like Bid Story shaping etc..

Cons:

Except the fact that it is a cloud based solution which can led to problems especially in public tenders I have no other cons at the moment.

Vendor Response

Thank you for your review, Kai! It's great to hear VT Docs is making your life easier. For anyone considering VT docs who needs an on-premise solution: We understand that a cloud-based solution can be an issue for some businesses. VT Docs is available as on-premise deployment to any organization which requires it.

Replied June 2019

Lavanya B.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used daily for free trial

Review source

Reviewed December 2020

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