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Framing small contracts as relevant experience

How to show evaluators that smaller work proves you can handle bigger work.

David Daniel · Jun 2025 · 7 min read

Relevance is judged on size, scope, and complexity — but evaluators have latitude in how they weigh each. Your job is to make relevance obvious.

Lead with scope, not size

Map each example to the PWS task by task. A $2M contract that performed every required function can outweigh a larger contract that touched only half.

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