Meridian for RFP Analysis 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Meridian for RFP Analysis

4.5

(13)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Meridian for RFP Analysis

Meridian for RFP Analysis is a request for proposal (RFP) management solution for federal, state and local bids. It offers storyboards, compliance metrics and proposal outlines. The product is available with on-premise deployment and supports Windows operating systems.

Meridian for RFP Analysis includes requirement management, which allows users to adhere to compliance standards related to government proposals, such as FAR and DFAR. The product also allows users to prepare reports such as cross reference and compliance matrices.

Meridian for RFP Analysis enables users to define rules for proposal creation. Users can track proposal data such as author, volume and page views.

Meridian for RFP Analysis provides phone and email support to customers. Users can also access training webinars to learn about product features and updates.

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Meridian for RFP Analysis Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $98.00

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$98.00

per feature

No plan information available

Meridian for RFP Analysis Features

Popular features found in Proposal Management
Approval Process Control
Audit Trail
Automatic Formatting
Content Library
Document Management
Electronic Signature
Knowledge Base Management
Proposal Generation
Version Control
Workflow Management
More features of Meridian for RFP Analysis
Collaboration Tools
Configurable Workflow
Requirements Management
RFP Management
Templates

Meridian for RFP Analysis User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

54%

46%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.8

Customer support

4.7

Functionality

4.5

Have you used Meridian for RFP Analysis and would like to share your experience with others?

Shelly S.

Verified reviewer

Defense & Space

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Evaluating and Implementing Meridian

The benefits are huge in the amount of administrative time this will save proposal managers and coordinators in developing annotated outlines, compliance matrices, and other functions that can take hours/days to accomplish.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The price of this product versus the time savings overall will save serious money spent on administrative tasks throughout the year. The software makes it possible to pick up on nuances that might be missed by the old school hand jamming into an excel spreadsheet. It also allows for searching on key words and generating lists of items such as CDRLs or DIDs called out in a PWS. So far this is huge for any proposal group to use and highly recommended.

Cons:

So far I am not happy with the upgrade function which might be more an internal IT process than the vendor. My upgrade did not work so my software is stalled at the moment. Other than this small issue, I have not found anything that I do not like.

Reasons for choosing Meridian for RFP Analysis

Right now Meridian tops the other two overwhelmingly. Expaedeance only supports word documents for the most part, and VisibleThread does not have a tailorable dashboard causing numerous hours of clean up and redo for all amendments.

Brittony M.

Verified reviewer

Aviation & Aerospace

10000+ employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Terrific for RFP Analysis

We use this software to do RFP analysis, create outlines, templates, and cross reference matrices.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This is a Microsoft based software that's easy to use to shred proposals, create cross reference matrices.

Cons:

We don't always need to update the software when Meridian updates it so we didn't purchase software support. However, when we got new laptops, we could not download the software version we already had.

Reasons for choosing Meridian for RFP Analysis

Our proposals are all different with customized writing, so we needed something that did the analysis and not build proposals.

Eric P.

Verified reviewer

Defense & Space

11-50 employees

Used other for free trial

Review source

Reviewed July 2019

Meridian RFP

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Did a good job shredding the RFP and creating a draft compliance matrix

Cons:

Somewhat expensive for an individual to purchase.

Anita A.

Verified reviewer

Aviation & Aerospace

201-500 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Review of Meridian for RFP Analysis

Overall this is the best software to save time and effort to efficiently prepare compliance matrices and distribute amongst the subject matter experts. Most of the time they are surprised how quickly I can have the compliance matrices ready for them to start working on.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I love how this software is able to analyze RFPs and within seconds prepare compliance matrices. No more copy & pasting! I use it all the time and required my new employer to purchase it when our company was acquired. The recognized text feature is great to extract those important, will, shall, provide, or any custom phrases for the pursuit.

Cons:

What I least like is that the Heading numbering remains in the Text description column after the RFP has been analyzed either by sentence level or paragraph level. It is ok for it to remain in the first column location. But due to time constraints I usually leave it in the 2nd column description of the heading and it does look messy. Only if there is time, it is a very time consuming process to remove all the heading numbering in that second column. On certain .pdf documents the text disappears and I never know if it has been removed or it has become a part of the prior line item. Sometimes this happens and I need to be sure to check that all text belongs in the right line item with the correct heading numbering.

Chris M.

Verified reviewer

Research

10000+ employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2019

Meridian for RFP Analysis

Providing efficiencies to our proposal department

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This is a great product that does just what it says it will do - makes the time-consuming laborious process of shredding an RFP systematic and complete. Your end products include a comprehensive compliance matrix, a working outline for your proposal with all references captured, and auto-populated storyboards and writing tools for preparing your response. All the work is done up front when you shred the RFP and create your worksheets; from that point, you can use your own template to build reports, outlines, and so forth. The support team is proactive, engaged, and available to help you through the learning curve both one-on-one and in regularly scheduled interactive webinars. The team is also constantly evaluating their product, asking for user input, and making improvements and changes based on these needs.

Cons:

Not the software's issue, but learning curve - finding the time to use it enough to get proficient.

Reasons for choosing Meridian for RFP Analysis

The product provided was specific and functional, meeting the specific needs of RFP response preparation.

Carol K.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Meridian for RFP Analysis

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Provides a great way to rapidly itemize and parse all RFP requirements to create multitudes of templates, requirements matrices, storyboards, capabilities matrices. The software enables us to standardize our proposal processes and templates for consistent proposal execution.

Cons:

Using the software is not intuitive to beginning users, and unless a user has the opportunity for frequent use, steps to use are hard to retain. However, the available video training and frequent webinars mitigates some of this. I have been using the software for almost 10 years, but I'm seeing that new users in my company struggle in the beginning.

Molly S.

Aviation & Aerospace

10000+ employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

Easy document evaluation, great reports

I am solving a timing and accuracy issue. I used to do all my analysis and matrices by hand, but using Meridian, I am able to automate the process which ensures accuracy and saves loads of time.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I love the ease of use - it allows me to do with documents in mins what would normally take hours.

Cons:

I have not had any issues to complain about.

Debby S.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

Great Tool

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

RFP scanning, outlining, storyboards - everything.

Cons:

Was a little complicated to use in the beginning.

Jonathan E.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used other for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Proposal Software That is Great for End Users and IT Support Teams

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

My IT Team has not had to provide much support this software for our teams that use it in the past year, it has enabled them to send in successful proposals and require very little support from us.

Cons:

No cons at this time, from an IT perspective we have not needed to support this software or reach out to Capterra for support which is amazing.

Wendy F.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed May 2016

I have been using the product for the past 8 years and have found it a wonderful time-saver

The software enables me to create checklists and cross reference tables from RFPs in a fraction of the time it would take to do it any other way. It ensures accuracy and completeness, both difficult to achieve with a manual approach. It enables me to spend my time on substantive issues instead of "cut and paste." Technical support has been rapid and responsive and the software has continued to improve over time based on user input.

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