Federal Acquisitions AI

One hallucinated qualification
can kill a $1B+ bid.

PromptShield delivers AI-powered proposal development for federal contractors. Generate proof points, past performance narratives, technical approaches, and staffing plans—with zero hallucination. Works inside your authorized environment. Your data never leaves your facility.

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30-40 hrs
saved per ACAT 1 proposal with AI assistance
$500k+
average cost of single bid loss due to compliance errors
CUI/ITAR Safe
Zero external data transmission—operates in your environment
Why This Matters

Federal proposals are unforgiving. One error can kill the entire bid.

Proposal teams face impossible pressure: tighter timelines, more complex requirements, higher stakes. When AI generates a staffing qualification that doesn't exist, a past performance reference that never happened, or a technical approach that misses a CLIN requirement—there's no recovering that bid.

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Hallucinated Qualifications

AI creates convincing-sounding staffing credentials, CLIN coverage, or past performance that never happened. Evaluators catch these. Your bid gets disqualified.

Compliance Landmines

Generic AI tools don't understand CUI, ITAR, DFARS, or IL5/IL6 requirements. One careless AI-generated sentence can violate your ATO and expose proprietary information.

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Proposal Bottlenecks

Building proof points, past performance narratives, and staffing plans manually takes weeks. Proposals slip. Deadlines compress. Quality suffers. Costs spike.

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Data Security Risk

Cloud-based AI tools require uploading sensitive proposal content, staffing details, and proprietary pricing to external servers. That's CUI/ITAR exposure. Security teams say no.

PromptShield for Federal Proposals

AI-powered proposal development—built for compliance, built for speed.

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Proof Points & Past Performance

Generate compelling past performance narratives grounded in YOUR documented projects. RAG architecture ensures every reference is verifiable, every claim is traceable, every date is accurate.

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Staffing Plans & CLIN Coverage

Build accurate staffing matrices and CLIN coverage maps tied to your actual labor codes, rates, and certifications. AI understands your org structure and never invents qualifications.

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Technical Approach Assistance

Draft technical sections that align with RFP requirements. AI-assisted, human-verified. Every technical claim is grounded in real capability—never hallucinated, always audit-ready.

Technical Architecture

How It Works: Four Pillars of Zero-Hallucination AI

PromptShield combines advanced AI techniques with rigorous validation layers to ensure every output is grounded, verifiable, and audit-ready.

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Data Ingestion & RAG Pipeline

Multi-source connectors ingest from SharePoint, CPARS, resumes, contracts, and document management systems. Vector database operates inside your environment. Real-time document search—not memory—with metadata tagging linking proof points directly to source contracts.

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Hallucination Prevention Engine

Source-grounded responses only—every claim maps to document chunks with inline citations. Confidence scoring flags weak matches instead of fabricating. Factual cross-validation checks numbers, dates, and personnel names. Gap detection explicitly says "information not found" instead of guessing.

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Prompt Guardrails & Output Validation

System instructions enforce "if not in documents, say not found." Output validation catches fabricated data before delivery. Restricted vocabulary for compliance fields. Human-in-the-loop checkpoints for high-stakes outputs.

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Secure Deployment

Operates inside your authorized environment—FedRAMP, IL5/IL6, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government. Data never leaves perimeter. CUI/ITAR compatible. Containerized (Kubernetes/Helm) for Platform One and Iron Bank distribution.

Technical Stack Flexibility: Vector database options include pgvector on your existing Postgres, dedicated Weaviate/Qdrant, or air-gapped deployments. LLM layer supports both cloud-connected and air-gapped open-source models (Llama, Mistral). You control the infrastructure—we provide the framework.

Regulatory Alignment

Built with federal acquisition realities in mind.

PromptShield's architecture wasn't designed in a vacuum. It reflects a deep understanding of the regulatory landscape federal contractors navigate daily—from FAR 2.0 modernization to DFARS cybersecurity requirements to the proposal evaluation process itself.

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FAR 2.0 Readiness

Designed to align with anticipated transparency and accountability requirements. As the Federal Acquisition Regulation undergoes its most comprehensive modernization in 40+ years, PromptShield's architecture—local deployment, audit trails, source citations for every claim—positions you for the future. Built-in traceability means every proposal section generated includes verifiable source attribution, supporting the increased transparency expectations emerging from FAR 2.0.

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DFARS & NIST SP 800-171 Awareness

Designed to support DFARS 252.204-7012 and CUI handling requirements. Data stays in your controlled environment—no external transmission. PromptShield operates within your authorized perimeter, consistent with NIST SP 800-171 principles: CUI never leaves your facility, all processing happens locally, full audit trail maintained. Your security team controls access, not an external SaaS provider.

FAR Part 15 & Source Selection Context

Built for the proposal development reality of FAR Part 15 (Contracting by Negotiation). PromptShield understands RFP requirements, past performance evaluation criteria (FAR Part 42), CLIN structure, and source selection processes. Generate proposal content that evaluators can trace, verify, and defend—because we understand what they're looking for and how they're evaluating it.

Why PromptShield understands this: Built by someone who's lived federal acquisitions—not just read about them. Years of experience navigating ATOs, DFARS compliance, CUI handling, and multi-million dollar proposal evaluations inform every architectural decision. This isn't generic AI tooling adapted for government contracting. This is purpose-built for the federal acquisition environment.

Compliance & Data Sovereignty

Your data never leaves your environment.

PromptShield is designed to operate within your existing authorized environment—FedRAMP, IL5/IL6, AWS GovCloud, or Azure Government. No new system boundary. No external SaaS dependency. All AI processing happens locally within your facility.

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Data Sovereignty

CUI, ITAR, and proprietary information stays in your facility. Zero external data transmission. Your security team maintains full control and audit trail.

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Compliance-Ready

Designed to work within IL5/IL6 and FedRAMP boundaries. Consult your security team for final authorization decisions—we minimize compliance friction, not remove it.

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Container-Ready

Built for Platform One and Iron Bank distribution. Deploy in your approved container environment. Future-ready for government cloud adoption.

Audit-Ready Output

Every proposal section generated includes source attribution. Evaluators see where claims come from. No mystery, no hallucination, fully defensible.

Important: PromptShield is designed to support your compliance posture, not replace your security review. Always consult your security team for final authorization decisions. We provide the framework; you maintain control.

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions federal acquisition teams ask.

Is PromptShield FedRAMP compliant?

PromptShield is designed to operate within your existing authorized environment. We don't introduce new system boundaries or external dependencies. Your security team makes the final compliance call. We support their decision with clear architecture, audit trails, and documentation.

How do you prevent hallucinations in federal proposals?

Three layers: (1) RAG architecture grounds all responses in YOUR verified documents, (2) Guardrails and domain-specific prompting eliminate speculation, (3) Source attribution on every claim means evaluators can trace where statements came from. What we generate is verifiable—or we don't generate it.

Can we use it with CUI and ITAR content?

Yes. PromptShield processes everything locally within your authorized environment. Your staffing plans, past performance, pricing, and technical approaches never leave your facility. Full compatibility with CUI and ITAR handling requirements. Your data policies are enforced—not ours.

How does it handle CLIN coverage and staffing matrices?

PromptShield understands CLIN structure, labor category mappings, and staffing plan requirements. You feed it your organizational data, labor codes, certifications, and rates. AI generates staffing recommendations tied to actual CLINs—never inventing qualifications, never double-booking labor.

What if we need to integrate with our current proposal tools?

We support API integration, document import/export, and standard proposal management workflows. Works alongside your existing tools—ShareFile, Deltek, Proposal Center, custom systems. You control the flow.

How long until we see value?

First proposal: 30-40 hours saved on proof points, past performance, and staffing plans. Second proposal is faster—the system learns your language, your CLINs, your past performance library. By cycle 3, teams report 50%+ reduction in manual draft-and-revise cycles.

Ready to accelerate proposal development?

We work with federal contractors on ACAT 1 and large GSA AAS proposals. Let's talk about your next bid.

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