What a packet contains
A bid packet holds the proposal sections for one notice, their review status, and the record of the submission. It stores three text documents (cover letter, capability statement, technical approach), a working pricing table of CLINs that is not saved to the packet or included in the ZIP, and links to the pursuit, the compliance matrix and the bid fit for its notice. Download ZIP writes one text file per non-empty document plus a manifest marked "AI-generated draft. Human review required before submission."
Packets belong to your company. A packet from another company answers as not found.
The six sections and readiness
Readiness counts six fixed sections in display order: Executive summary, Technical approach, Management approach, Past performance, Price volume, and Staffing and key personnel. A section is Approved only when a person has approved it; otherwise it is Needs review or Empty. The row text reads "<a> of 6 sections approved, <d> in draft, <m> not started". Almost ready means 5 of 6 approved. Section rows come from the newest proposal draft for the same notice; with no draft, the packet shows "No proposal draft for this notice yet" and the packet documents still work.
The list page
Bid Packets (/vendor/bid-packets) has a Table and a Board (columns Deadline risk, In progress, Complete; a packet is at deadline risk when its notice closes within 7 days). Team tabs: Waiting on me, Assigned to me, Needs a decision, Team decided, All. Search covers title, notice number and agency. Sort by due date, least ready first, or recently updated. New Packet creates one by hand; AI Generate asks for a contract and drafts a cover letter and capability statement. Archive moves a packet out of the active list without deleting it.
Citations and the claim check
In the proposal editor each drafted section lists "Company documents used": excerpts from your knowledge base that the writer was given for that section (past proposals, past performance, capability statement, personnel bios, company profile, FAR/DFARS text, or an attachment to the notice), each numbered with its source title and a quoted excerpt. They are not citations to the solicitation.
The claim check then compares the section's specific factual claims (statistics, dates, certifications, named systems, project outcomes) against those excerpts and lists any claim not found in your company documents. It does not check the solicitation. A section with flagged claims stays Needs review until a person edits it or approves it. A reviewer score below 90 also flags a section. A separate pre-submission gate blocks placeholders such as TBD or "[insert" and warns on absolute claims with no citation.
AI drafting is off by default
Live AI calls need three operator switches on at once; with any of them off, every AI call returns a fixed mock and spends nothing. In that state a drafted section reads "AI drafting is off in this environment. This section holds fixed sample text, not a draft for this notice." and cannot be approved; regenerating a document answers "AI drafting is off in this environment, so no document was generated. Nothing was saved." Write the section yourself with Edit, or ask your operator about enabling drafting. AI Generate on the list page creates nothing in this state and says so in the dialog; use New Bid Packet to create the packet and add its sections yourself.
When drafting is on, plan caps apply (3 generations a month on Free, 50 on Professional, no monthly cap on Enterprise with 3 proposal runs per rolling hour), and new accounts are capped at 10 generations in their first 14 days.
Submitting
The Submission tab lists what must be true first (quotes due, questions due, sections approved, open compliance rows) and then says: offers go where the notice says, by email, PIEE, GSA eBuy or the agency portal. GovConHouse does not send offers. It records the receipt. The pursuit's Submit tab holds the checklist and the receipt form.