Perhaps one day bureaucracies will accept proposals via JSON (or other open data format... XML anyone?) rather than Word or PDF. One could argue that these for

Perhaps one day bureaucracies will accept proposals via JSON (or other open data format... XML anyone?) rather than Word or PDF. One could argue that these formats are more accessible than their equivalent pseudo-paper formats. It would eliminate the nitpicking over document format, as the low bar to enter would be enforced programmatically. This would allow technologists with lesser experience in the minutia of proposal writing to compete with huge government contractors with specialists who deal in final proposal preparation. At least it would in the short term until the big contractors retooled.