Embodiments described herein provide a system for generating a draft proposal. During
operation, the system obtains a schema that represents a general model of a request for
proposal (RFP). The system generates a structured RFP from an RFP document by
structuring one or more elements of the RFP document in the structured RFP based on the
schema. The system then generates a proposal outline comprising one or more sections. A
respective one of the one or more sections corresponds to one of the one or more elements …