Effective August 7, 2026. These terms govern review services provided by Akros Partners LLC, doing business as Akros Strategy. Booking a review, purchasing a consultation, or subscribing to a retainer means you accept them.

1. What we provide

We provide independent, advisory review of proposals and bid packages that you have prepared. Depending on the engagement, a review may assess evaluation readiness, compliance with the solicitation, readability, competitive positioning, or, for an Invitation to Bid, responsiveness against mandatory submittals. Each engagement produces a written report and includes one round of follow-up questions.

2. What we do not provide

• We do not draft, ghostwrite, or author proposal or bid content for you.
• We do not submit anything to a procuring agency on your behalf, and we do not act as your representative before any agency.
• We do not provide legal advice. Nothing we deliver creates an attorney-client relationship. Protest deadlines, contract interpretation, and disputes are matters for your attorney.
• We do not provide accounting, tax, audit, or certified cost and pricing advice.
• We do not guarantee that a submission will be responsive, responsible, technically acceptable, shortlisted, or awarded.

3. Your responsibilities

• You are responsible for the content, accuracy, and truthfulness of everything you submit to an agency, including any changes made in response to our review.
• You decide which recommendations to adopt. Our report is advisory.
• You are responsible for meeting the solicitation deadline and for the mechanics of submission, including portal registration and upload.
• You confirm you have the right to share the materials you send us.
• You are responsible for your own eligibility, licensing, registrations, and certifications.

4. Materials and turnaround

Turnaround begins when complete materials arrive, not when payment is made. Complete materials means the full solicitation, every addendum issued to date, and the documents you intend to submit. Standard turnaround is five business days; priority is 72 hours and expedited is 48 hours, each measured in business hours from receipt of complete materials.

Where materials arrive incomplete, we will identify what is outstanding and the turnaround period begins on receipt of the remainder. Any addendum issued during the review must be provided to us. A material change to the solicitation may require additional time, which will be confirmed with you before work continues.

Fees are set by tier. If a submission exceeds the page or volume range for the tier purchased, the adjusted fee will be confirmed with you before work begins.

5. Fees and payment

Fees are those published on our pricing page and are payable in advance through Stripe. All fees are non-refundable except as provided in section 7. Consultations are billed at a fixed price payable at booking. Engagements over 100 pages, or of four or more volumes, are quoted individually.

6. Retainers

Retainer plans reserve monthly review capacity and bill monthly in advance until cancelled. Included reviews do not roll over to the following month. A retainer may be cancelled at any time before the next billing date through the customer portal; cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period, and we do not prorate a partial month. Reviews beyond the included count are billed at standard published rates.

7. Cancellation and credit

7.1 Cancellation by you

• Fees are earned on payment and are non-refundable, whether or not the review has commenced and whether or not you use the capacity reserved.
• Where you cancel before work commences, the fee is held as credit against a future review for twelve months from the date of payment. Credit carries no cash value, is not redeemable for a refund, and may not be transferred outside the purchasing organization.
• Withdrawal from the solicitation, failure to meet the agency deadline, and any decision not to submit do not discharge the fee.
• An engagement may be reassigned to a later solicitation at no charge where notice is given before work commences.

7.2 Changes after purchase

• Tier or turnaround may be upgraded at any time on payment of the difference.
• Downgrades do not generate a refund or credit. Priority and expedited fees purchase reserved capacity, which is committed on booking and is not returned where a review concludes early or a submission proves shorter than declared.

7.3 Consultations and retainers

• A consultation may be rescheduled once without charge on not less than 24 hours’ notice. Shorter notice or non-attendance exhausts the booking.
• Retainer subscriptions are cancelled through the customer portal and terminate at the end of the paid period. Partial months are not prorated. Unused reviews do not carry forward.

7.4 Disputed charges

You agree to contact us before initiating a chargeback or payment dispute. Records of engagement, correspondence, and delivery are retained and will be furnished to the card issuer in response to any dispute.

8. Confidentiality and conflicts

We treat your materials as confidential and handle them as described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms. You shall keep our reports, methodology, and reference materials confidential and shall not distribute them outside your organization.

Each engagement is checked for conflicts before acceptance. Where we are already reviewing a submission for the same solicitation, we will decline the later engagement or proceed only with informed written consent from every affected client. Where a conflict emerges after work has begun, we will notify you, cease work on the affected engagement, and refund the fees paid for it in full.

9. Ownership

Your proposal and bid materials remain yours. The written report we deliver is licensed to you for your internal use in pursuing the solicitation it addresses and future submissions by your organization. Our templates, checklists, frameworks, and methodology remain our property and are not transferred by an engagement.

10. No guarantee of award

Procurement outcomes are decided by the agency. Award depends on factors outside our control, including price, competing submissions, evaluator judgment, agency needs, and budget. We do not guarantee any outcome, and no statement by us should be understood as a prediction or promise of award.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of or relating to an engagement is limited to the fees you paid for that engagement. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost contracts, lost opportunity, or the cost of a missed submission, even if advised of the possibility. Services are provided on an as-is basis and, except as expressly stated here, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied.

12. Independent contractor

We act as an independent contractor. Nothing in these terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, employment, or teaming relationship, and neither party may bind the other. We are not a subcontractor to, or a proposed team member on, any submission we review unless a separate written agreement says so.

13. Third-party information

Our website includes a board of public solicitation notices drawn from government procurement portals and published federal data. It is provided for convenience only and may be incomplete or out of date. You are responsible for verifying any solicitation, its addenda, and its deadline with the issuing agency before relying on it. Links to agency portals and third-party services are provided for convenience and we are not responsible for their content or availability.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any dispute arising under them will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Florida, and both parties consent to that jurisdiction. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.

15. Changes and contact

We may amend these terms at any time. The version in effect at the date an engagement is booked governs that engagement. The current version is posted on this page with its effective date.

Notices and questions may be sent through the contact form. See also our Privacy Policy.