# US government past performance narrative

> Draft and validate past performance narratives for US government proposals (project, customer, period, value, relevance, CPARS dimensions).



Tags: Government contracting, United States, Past performance, CPARS, Proposals


## Example Prompts

- Draft a past performance narrative for our GSA proposal
- Validate our past performance section for required fields and dimensions
- Align our narrative to the solicitation's evaluation criteria

URL: https://rakenne.app/skills/us-gov-past-performance-narrative/index.md

Try this skill: https://rakenne.app/a/?skill=us-gov-past-performance-narrative



## Overview

Draft and validate past performance narratives for US government proposals (project, customer, period, value, relevance, CPARS dimensions).

## When to use this skill

Use this skill when you are:

- **Drafting past performance writeups for a live solicitation** and want each project vignette to hit the required CPARS-style dimensions and evaluation criteria.
- **Reusing prior narratives across bids** and need to quickly adapt and validate them for a new agency, vehicle, or opportunity.
- **Quality-checking narratives before color team reviews or final submission** to catch missing fields (project value, relevance, period, customer) or thin coverage on key dimensions.
- **Building a library of standard project stories** that BD and proposal teams can pull from, with consistent structure and completeness.

Typical users include proposal managers, capture/BD leads, contracts teams, and external proposal consultants focused on US federal/state/local bids.

## Getting Started

Add your past performance narrative (or project bullets) to the workspace and activate the skill. Run the validator to ensure project, customer, period, value, relevance, and dimension coverage.

## Tools

- **validate_past_performance_narrative** — Checks for project/contract, customer, period, value, relevance to solicitation, and coverage of CPARS-style dimensions (quality, schedule, cost, management, etc.).

## Example conversation

> **You:** Our past performance narrative for the GSA proposal is in `proposal/past_perf.md`. Validate it against the usual CPARS dimensions.
>
> **Agent:** Running the validator.
>
> **Agent:** OK for project, customer, period, value, relevance. Dimensions mentioned: quality, schedule, cost, management. OK — ready for page-limit check.
>
> **You:** Add one sentence on subcontractor management for the DoD project.
>
> **Agent:** Added a sentence on subcontractor management to the DoD project block and re-validated; dimensions now include subcontractor.

## Output excerpt

Example when relevance is missing:

```
============================================================
Past Performance Narrative Validation
File: proposal/past_perf.md
============================================================

OK: project
OK: customer
OK: period
OK: value
Missing: relevance

Dimensions mentioned: quality, schedule, cost

Action: Add missing fields and address solicitation evaluation dimensions.
```


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