Opportunity ID: 55261

General Information

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: 2010-MEP-SDCC-01
Funding Opportunity Title: Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Projects – Strategic Growth Areas
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation:
Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity: Other (see text field entitled “Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity” for clarification)
Category Explanation: Manufacturing Extension Services
Expected Number of Awards:
Assistance Listings: 11.611 — Manufacturing Extension Partnership
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: Yes
Version: Synopsis 1
Posted Date: Jun 16, 2010
Last Updated Date:
Original Closing Date for Applications: – All applications must be received or postmarked no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on July 15, 2010. Late proposals will not be reviewed.

Current Closing Date for Applications: – All applications must be received or postmarked no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on July 15, 2010. Late proposals will not be reviewed.

Archive Date: Aug 16, 2010
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling:
Award Floor:

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants: Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: All nonprofit organizations including universities, community colleges, state governments, state technology programs and independent nonprofit organizations including existing MEP manufacturing extension centers are eligible. Organizations may submit multiple proposals under this solicitation for unique projects. A partnership with an existing MEP manufacturing extension center or centers is strongly encouraged.

Additional Information

Agency Name: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Description: The National Institute of Standards and Technology invites proposals from eligible organizations for projects to develop client engagement or business models and deployment strategies that integrate two or more of the MEP Strategic Growth Areas. The projects should further demonstrate in its proposed client engagement or business model, the benefit of this integration and how the approach can expand service capability and capacity of the MEP system. The five MEP Strategic Growth Areas are: supply chain, sustainability, technology acceleration, workforce and continuous improvement. Proposals should include a plan, a client engagement or business model and deployment strategy for the project, and an approach for leveraging existing tools, resources and partnerships.

The objective of these projects is to demonstrate the ability to strengthen, through an integrated transformational growth services model, the global competitiveness of small- and medium-sized U.S. based manufacturing firms. Project specific performance measurement and management approaches, including key milestones, are crucial to the evaluation of these projects. NIST is seeking projects that present novel and new approaches to delivering and communicating performance measurement and evaluation. For example, those projects that incorporate the following factors will be considered competitive: internal performance measurement for management control, external evaluation for assessing outcomes of the activity, and “customer satisfaction” measures of performance. This could include approaches to gathering outcome information, comparisons of outcomes achieved by project clients or other approaches to performance measurement and evaluation.
The MEP program places high importance on ensuring that projects be well aligned with the work of MEP service providers in order to maximize the potential and impact of existing resources. Additional background information on MEP service providers is provided at http://www.nist.gov/mep.

Link to Additional Information: Full Announcement for 2010-MEP-SDCC-01
Grantor Contact Information: If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:

Christopher Hunton

Grants Technical Assistant

Phone 301-975-5718
Email:christopher.hunton@nist.gov

Version History

Version Modification Description Updated Date

Folder 55261 Full Announcement-1 -> 2010 mep ffo – service delivery deployment expansion competition competition #2 final v1e 06-10-10 (2).pdf

Packages

Agency Contact Information: Christopher Hunton
Grants Technical Assistant
Phone 301-975-5718
Email: christopher.hunton@nist.gov
Who Can Apply: Organization Applicants

Assistance Listing Number Competition ID Competition Title Opportunity Package ID Opening Date Closing Date Actions
11.611 2010-MEP-SDCC-01 Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Projects – Strategic Growth Areas PKG00019285 Jun 17, 2010 Jul 15, 2010 View

Package 1

Mandatory forms

55261 SF424-2.0.pdf

55261 CD511-1.1.pdf

55261 SF424B-1.1.pdf

55261 SF424A-1.0.pdf

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