Capability Maturity vs. Work on Proposals

I've prepared this text to efficiently process to common currently occurring and related phenomena. The first is the amount of unpaid work I can put in a lead before I must have some payment if I have not decided to do the work on some other basis. The second is so-called [[:en:Capability Maturity Model|Capability Maturity (CMM)]] and its [[:en:Antipattern|antipattern]] CIMM , which has to do with the reliablity of estimates in CMM Level I situations.