Performance Dashboard

The Bid Performance dashboard, under Analytics → Bid Performance, turns your recorded outcomes into a running scorecard of how your bidding is actually going — and how good Cothon's recommendations have been.

Key metrics

Four headline cards summarize your record:

• Total Bids — every recorded pursuit, with the number actually submitted (awarded + lost) beneath it.
• Win Rate — awarded as a share of submitted bids, with your won/lost counts and a marker showing whether you are above average (≥ 50%), average (30–49%), or below average.
• Total Value Won — the combined value of awarded contracts, with your average value per win.
• Hours Invested — total recorded proposal hours, with hours per win when available.

Outcome distribution

A bar breakdown of all recorded outcomes — won, lost, declined, and withdrawn — with counts and percentages. A healthy pipeline usually shows a meaningful share of declines: it means you are qualifying out, not bidding on everything.

Decision quality

The decision quality card shows decision accuracy — the percentage of recorded outcomes where Cothon's original recommendation matched what you later judged correct (via the "was the recommendation correct?" field on the outcome form).

• High accuracy — the model's weights and thresholds reflect your reality; trust the recommendations more.
• Low accuracy — something is miscalibrated. Check whether your company profile is current, then revisit your scoring settings.

The card also surfaces hours per win as an efficiency check on where your proposal effort goes.

Performance by industry

A table of your record segmented by industry: bids, won/lost, win rate, and value won per industry. This is often the most actionable view on the page — a 60% win rate in one sector and 10% in another is a strong argument for reweighting your strategic priorities.

Historical performance from your vendor record

If your organization is linked to a vendor in the public award database and you have not yet recorded outcomes, the dashboard instead shows your historical performance from public data:

• Total awards, combined value, average value per contract, and category count
• Recent awards, clickable for full contract details (value, buyer, dates, description)
• Yearly award trend, breakdowns by category and industry sector, and your top client agencies

This gives you a baseline picture on day one, before your recorded-outcome history builds up.

Using the dashboard well

1. Review monthly — win rate and decision accuracy move slowly; monthly is often enough.
2. Compare effort to value — rising hours per win with flat value won means proposal effort is leaking into the wrong pursuits.
3. Act on the industry table — double down where your win rate is strong; investigate or exit where it is persistently weak.
4. Audit the model — if decision accuracy drifts down after you change weights or thresholds, that is your signal to revisit Scoring Settings.