Case Study: MELE Associates achieves streamlined collaboration and accelerated bidding with Deltek's Kona

MELE Associates Becomes a Social Business

MELE Associates, a Veteran- and minority-owned small business that provides program management, information systems and engineering solutions to federal agencies, won a contract vehicle to pursue $300M in federal opportunities. The award required continuous collaboration among 20 geographically dispersed partners and subcontractors, and existing tools like SharePoint and email created access, bandwidth and file-size challenges that threatened timely coordination.

Marketing & Proposal Manager Joshua Larson introduced Kona, a cloud-based social collaboration platform with iOS/Android mobile apps, to centralize file sharing, tasking and conversation. Kona streamlined business development and IT workflows, improved productivity and onboarding, accelerated the bid and proposal process, enabled invoice sharing for accounting, and became a core tool for managing multi-million-dollar programs with plans for expanded use.

MELE Associates

Joshua Larson

Marketing & Proposal Manager