Commerce
Business Daily Announcement
Focused Program Competition 98-03
Premium Power
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 its focused program competition
98-03, Premium Power, and announces public meetings (Proposers' Conferences)
for all interested parties. 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.
The goal of this Premium
Power program is to promote U.S. economic growth by supporting sustained,
high-risk research and development (not product development), to accelerate
progress in power technologies critical to changes occurring in information
systems, telecommunications, and distributed electric power. Technologies
within scope: advanced rechargeable batteries, photovoltaic (PV) arrays,
fuel cells, ultracapacitors and flywheels. These power technologies should
be especially enabling to the convergence in digital, broadband, multimedia
communications and computing; to mobile electronics; to dispersed fiber
or wireless low earth orbit satellite based transmission networks; and
to distributed electric power, especially that needed by power quality
sensitive industries. The program targets significant innovations in performance,
cost effectiveness, and electric quality of portable and distributed power
systems through advances in materials, processing, device structures and
systems integration. Proposals within scope include (but are not limited
to) those that address new high energy density batteries; solid-state
fuel cells and PV power modules suited to residential, commercial or small
portable uses; high efficiency, low cost and weight solar cells for space
and terrestrial telecommunication uses; and high pulse power ultracapacitor
devices based on new carbon and metal oxides. Technologies outside the
scope are primary batteries, lead acid, nickel cadmium and low risk modifications
of commercial rechargeable batteries; high power density technologies
for electric or hybrid vehicle applications; liquid electrolyte fuel cells;
current high cost geosynchronous orbit (GEO) space PV modules; technologies
best suited to central utility applications over 250kW capacity; and proposals
that solely emphasize power conditioning electronics. Business goals:
1) strengthen U.S. industry in advanced rechargeable energy storage production;
2) achieve a 10-fold cost reduction of space photovoltaic arrays; and
3) reduce cost of manufacturing a kW of distributed, integrated fuel cell
capacity to $1500. Abbreviated proposals (pre-proposals) are allowed but
are optional for this focused program competition 98-03. Pre-proposals
are intended to provide intermediate feedback as to whether the proposer
is on track in formulating and articulating some of the key information
required for a successful project proposal. Responses to pre- proposals
will have no effect on review of full proposals, but must follow the instructions
included in the 98-03 program booklet.
Pre-proposals under
98-03 are due no later than 3:00 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, February
27, 1998, at the address shown below. Written feedback can be expected
from ATP within two weeks of receipt. No other form of pre-proposal debriefing
will be provided.
The due date for
submission of 98-03 FULL proposals is 3 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday,
April 8, 1998. Should NIST 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 pre-proposals and 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
Focused Program 98-03. Pre-proposals or 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 for an oral
review, ATP reserves the right to submit questions to 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. The ATP Proposal Preparation Kit dated December 1997 (containing
proposal cover sheets, other required forms, background material, and
instructions for submission of proposals) and the 98-03 program booklet
(containing a paper describing the focused program scope) 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 above
address. The Kit is also available on the ATP World Wide Web site http://www.atp.nist.gov
under Publications. ATP is mailing the new Kit to all individuals whose
names are currently on the ATP mailing list. Those individuals need not
contact ATP to request a copy. The 98-03 program booklet is also available
on ATP web site under the heading Competitions and printed copies are
available upon request from ATP. Public meetings (Proposers' Conferences)
for potential proposers and other interested parties will be held on following
four 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 NIST Boulder
meeting contact Jerry Hendrix, 303-497-5646. In case of severe weather,
call NIST's Facilities Status Line, Gaithersburg, 301-975-6478; Boulder,
303-497-3000 for a prerecorded status message. 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; at the Austin Chariot Resort Inn, 7300
North IH 35, Austin, TX 78752-2606, Phone: 800-432-9202; and at the
Adam's Mark Orlando, 1500 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809, Phone:
407-859-1500;
- Friday, January
23, 1998, at The Quality Hotel - Los Angeles Airport, 5249 W. Century
Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045, Phone: 310-645-2200; at the Holiday Inn
O'Hare International, 5440 North River Road, Rosemont, IL 60018, Phone:
888-642- 7344; and at the Sheraton Bradley Hotel, 1 Bradley International
Airport, Windsor Locks, CT 06096, Phone: 860-627-5311;
- and Wednesday,
January 28, 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 an opportunity for audience questions. The format and content
of each of the public meetings will be the same exception at the January
28, 1998, meeting which will include an afternoon session to answer specific
questions on the scope, technical, and business goals of this 98-03 focused
program. Multiple locations for these meetings are for public convenience.
Attendance is not required. No registration fee will be charged. To register
for a meeting or for further information, contact ATP as noted above.
Date created: December 1997
Last updated:
April 12, 2005
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