Commerce
Business Daily Announcement
Focused Program Competition 98-07
Selective-Membrane Platforms
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
98-07, Selective-Membrane Platforms, 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 Selective- Membrane
Platforms program objectives are to develop a group of membrane platforms,
and accelerate their diffusion into the chemical- and allied-process industries.
Individual projects are anticipated to deliver step-change improvements
in membrane performance that result in: increased selectivity for the
concentration/purification/isolation of chemical species that have only
small differences in size, functional group, or structure; increased productivity
available over a wide range of production scales and stream concentrations;
robustness at extremes of pH, temperature, or pressure, or resistance
to hydrolysis, organic solvents, impurity poisoning, or reactive mixtures;
and attractive economics in use. The technical scope includes the development
of catalytic membranes; colloidal and particulate filtration membranes
with order-of-magnitude increases in productivity and size selectivity;
affinity membranes that incorporate high densities of molecular-recognition
agents; tunable membranes that offer continuous or real-time control of
transport properties; and membrane process modifications including advanced
flow concepts and unique hybrid processes. Projects should provide visible
demonstrations of success against difficult "real world" applications
and lower the hurdle rate for subsequent installations of related membrane
technologies across the chemical- and allied-process industries. Business
goals should be to deliver specialty (or commodity) chemicals that will
enable the creation of new- or higher-performance consumer products; or
produce greater than 20% cost reductions in core-process separations operations.
Project exclusions are described in the 98-07 program booklet. Abbreviated
proposals (pre-proposals) are allowed but are optional for competition
98-07. 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 98-07 program booklet.
Pre- proposals
under 98-07 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 98-07 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
98-07. 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 98-07
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 98-07
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 98-07 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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