Commerce
Business Daily Announcement
General Program Competition 98-01
REQUEST
FOR PROPOSALS
AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING
REQUEST FOR
PROPOSALS AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING: The NIST Advanced Technology
Program (ATP) is soliciting proposals under the ATP 98-01, General Competition
and announces public meetings (Proposers' Conferences) for all interested
parties. This General Competition is open to all areas of technology.
A total estimated $82 million in first year funding is available for new
awards for all of the fiscal year 1998 ATP competitions (approximately
eight to ten). The actual number of proposals funded under each competition
will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the amount of
funding requested in the highest ranked proposals. Outyear funding beyond
the first year is contingent on the approval of future Congressional appropriations
and satisfactory project performance.
Only FULL proposals
are being solicited under this General Competition 98-01. Abbreviated
proposals (pre-proposals) WILL NOT be accepted. The due date for submission
of 98-01 FULL proposals is 3 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, March 18,
1998. Should the NIST facility be closed on the specified due date,
ATP proposals will be due at 3 p.m. Eastern time on the next business
day that the NIST facility is open. Proposals received after this deadline
WILL NOT be considered. Send full proposals to:
Advanced
Technology Program
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Administration Building 101, Rm. A407
Quince Orchard & Clopper Roads
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001
Mark envelope
General Competition 98-01. Full proposals submitted by facsimile or electronic
mail WILL NOT be accepted.
If a proposer's full
proposal is judged to be of high enough quality to be invited in for an
oral review, ATP reserves the right to submit a list of questions to the
proposer that must be addressed at the oral review. The ATP operates under
program procedures published at Part 295, Title 15, of the Code of Federal
Regulations. The provisions of the 12/15/97 Federal Register notice announcing
the availability of funding for ATP competitions, are incorporated by
reference in this notice. Awards shall be subject to all Federal laws
and Federal and Departmental regulations, policies and procedures applicable
to financial assistance awards. Funds awarded to single company proposers
shall be used only for direct costs and not for indirect costs, profits,
or management fees. Section 319 of Public Law 101- 121 prohibits recipients
of Federal contracts, grants, and loans from using appropriated funds
for lobbying the Executive or Legislative Branches of the Federal Government
in connection with a specific contract, grant, or loan.
The ATP Proposal Preparation
Kit dated December 1997 (containing proposal cover sheets, other required
forms, background material, and instructions for submission of proposals)
may be requested by phone: 1-800-ATP-FUND; fax: 301-926-9524 or 301-590-3053;
e-mail: atp@nist.gov; or letter at the
address shown above. The Kit is also available on the ATP World Wide Web
site http://www.atp.nist.gov under the
heading Publications. The ATP is mailing the new Kit to all those individuals
whose names are currently on the ATP mailing list. Those individuals need
not contact the ATP to request the new Kit.
Public meetings (Proposers'
Conferences) for potential proposers and other interested parties will
be held on the following five dates and nine locations:
- Thursday, January
15, 1998, NIST, Administration Bldg. (101), Green Auditorium, Quince
Orchard & Clopper Roads, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001 and will also be
video teleconferenced to NIST Boulder, Building 1, Main Auditorium,
325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80303. For further information on the NIST
Boulder meeting contact Jerry Hendrix, 303-497-5646, E-mail jeryll.hendrix@nist.gov.
In case of severe weather, please call NIST's Facilities Status Line,
Gaithersburg, 301-975-NIST (6478); Boulder, 303-497-3000 for a prerecorded
message of the status of NIST opening. If NIST is closed, the meeting
will be rescheduled;
- Wednesday, January
21, 1998 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1113 6th Avenue, Seattle, WA,
98101-3048, Phone: 800-521-2762, Fax: 206-340-1617; at the Austin Chariot
Resort Inn, 7300 North IH 35, Austin, TX 78752-2606, Phone: 800-432-9202,
Fax: 512-452-5079; and at the Adam's Mark Orlando, 1500 Sand Lake Road,
Orlando, FL 32809, Phone: 407-859-1500, Fax: 407-855-1585;
- and Friday,
January 23, 1998, at The Quality Hotel - Los Angeles Airport, 5249
W. Century Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045, Phone: 310-645-2200, Fax: 310-641-8214;
at the Holiday Inn O'Hare International, 5440 North River Road, Rosemont,
IL 60018, Phone: 888-642-7344, Fax: 847-671-5406; and at the Sheraton
Bradley Hotel, 1 Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, CT 06096,
Phone: 860-627-5311, Fax: 860-627- 9348;
- and Wednesday,
January 28, 1998, and Thursday, January 29, 1998, at the Gaithersburg
Holiday Inn, 2 Montgomery Village Avenue, Gaithersburg, MD 20879, Phone:
301-948-8900.
The conference at
each location will begin at 9:30 a.m. local time and end at approximately
2 p.m. except for the January 15 meeting. On that date, to accommodate
a video teleconference, the meeting at NIST will be held from 10 a.m.
to 2:30 p.m. local time and the meeting at NIST Boulder will be held from
8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. local time. These meetings will provide general information
regarding the ATP, tips on preparing good proposals, and will provide
an opportunity for attendees to ask questions. The general format and
content of each of the public meetings will be the same. Multiple locations
for the public meetings are being offered for the convenience of the public.
Attendance at these public meetings is not required. No registration fee
will be charged. To register for a public meeting or for further information,
contact ATP as noted above.
Date created: December
16, 1997
Last updated:
April 12, 2005
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