Commerce
Business Daily Announcement
Focused Program Competition 98-05
Catalysis and Biocatalysis Technologies
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
98-05, Catalysis and Biocatalysis Technologies, 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 program goal is to enable the catalysis-based
processing industries to speed technological breakthroughs via systems
oriented, multi-disciplinary approaches to catalytic process design. Detailed
descriptions of the program's business and technical goals are provided
in the 98-05 focused program booklet.
TECHNICAL SCOPE: Technical
and business goals should be linked to the following five key reaction
systems or two process innovation areas that comprise the technical scope.
Reaction systems include: (1) catalytic processes for selective oxidation
or oxidative dehydrogenation; (2) biocatalytic processes for chemical
products and polymers; (3) catalytic processes for polymers, co-polymers
and key monomers; (4) catalytic and biocatalytic processes for reducing
the environmental impacts of hazardous catalytic systems; and (5) catalytic
and biocatalytic systems for reducing emissions or monitoring impurities
in industrial and lean-burn transportation applications. Process innovation
areas include: (1) catalyst or biocatalyst manufacturing breakthroughs
that significantly enhance catalyst performance and/or manufacturing productivity;
and (2) bioreactor or catalytic reactor breakthroughs in engineering,
design, modeling and scale-up that decrease scale-up steps, improve catalyst
performance, integrate reaction or separation steps or enhance transport
efficiencies.
EXCLUSIONS FROM TECHNICAL
SCOPE: prospective proposal writers are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to check the
98-05 focused program booklet for a comprehensive listing of topics which
will not be funded in this competition. Abbreviated proposals (pre-proposals)
are allowed but are optional for this focused program competition 98-05.
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 the review of full proposals, but must follow the
instructions included in the 98-05 focused program booklet.
Pre-proposals under
98-05 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 98-05 FULL proposals is 3 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday,
April 22, 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 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 98-05
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 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. 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 98-05
focused program booklet (containing a paper describing the scope of this
focused program) 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. The 98-05
focused 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 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; 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, and Wednesday, February 18, 1998, both
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 format and content
of each of the public meetings will be the same with the exception of
the January 28, 1998, and February 18, 1998, meetings which will also
include a session in the afternoon to answer specific questions on the
scope, technical, and business goals of this 98-05 focused program. 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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