"I've worked in many fields with entities from local, county, state, and federal RFPs/RFIs/SOQs/etc and even if you're the best in the business and have proof it's not always easy to patch it together in a format desired in a timeline that's desired and call it done."

RFP's and RFI's are not the same thing, they are often thousands of pages of trying to meet hundreds of pages of random requirements.

What you are talking about sounds mostly like dealing with the contracting side of it, which is a very different world.

Have you also dealt with the "Response to regulatory agency concerns" part of it?

Because I have, and while yeah, with say, the SEC, it can be a trip, i wouldn't throw the NHTSA into that category.