Opportunity ID: 292963

General Information

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: 2017-NIST-MEP-EMUSA-02
Funding Opportunity Title: Embedding MEP in Manufacturing USA Institutes Pilot Projects – Round 3
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 Partnership
Expected Number of Awards: 5
Assistance Listings: 11.611 — Manufacturing Extension Partnership
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No
Version: Synopsis 1
Posted Date: Apr 03, 2017
Last Updated Date:
Original Closing Date for Applications: Jun 02, 2017
Current Closing Date for Applications: Jun 02, 2017
Archive Date: Jul 02, 2017
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: Eligible applicants for this funding opportunity are MEP Centers receiving current cooperative agreement funding from NIST. To receive funding under this NOFO, an applicant MEP Center must form a collaboration, teaming arrangement, or other appropriate relationship with one (1) or more of the five (5) Manufacturing USA Institutes identified below. For purposes of this NOFO, the primary Manufacturing USA Institute is the one in which the MEP Center plans to embed at least one (1.0) MEP Center personnel FTE. The relationship must have been established at the time of application submission and must be documented with a letter(s) of commitment (see Section IV.2.a.(12). of this NOFO) from the Manufacturing USA Institute(s) with which the relationship has been established. These five (5) Manufacturing USA Institutes identified below are not currently hosting embedded MEP Center representatives in residence at their Institute locations as the result of either the 2016-NIST-MEP-ENNMI-01 funding opportunity, or the 2017-NIST-MEP-EMUSA-01 funding opportunity. These five (5) Manufacturing USA Institutes are:

Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI);
Advanced Robotics Manufacturing (ARM) Institute;
National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL);
Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment (RAPID) Institute;
Reducing Embodied-energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute.

NIST encourages project proposals involving participation from multiple MEP
Centers and multiple Manufacturing USA Institutes, as well as other collaborating entities such as local economic development organizations, universities, community colleges, technology incubator programs, and other organizations.

An MEP Center may serve as the MEP Center applicant on only one (1) proposal. There are no restrictions on the number of applications in which MEP Centers or Manufacturing USA Institutes can be proposed as collaborators, nor are there restrictions on MEP Centers receiving Round One or Round Two awards serving as applicants or collaborators on projects funded pursuant to this Round Three competition. See Section III.1. of this NOFO for more information regarding funding opportunity eligibility.

Additional Information

Agency Name: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Description: NIST invites proposals from current MEP Centers to pilot test approaches to providing needed technology acceleration assistance to small and mid-sized U.S. manufacturers (hereinafter referred to as small U.S. manufacturers) through the establishment of meaningful and results oriented collaborations between the nationwide system of Centers operating as part of the NIST Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program (hereinafter referred to as NIST MEP), and the public-private manufacturing innovation Institutes operating as part of Manufacturing USA (previously known as the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI), and hereinafter referred to as Manufacturing USA Institutes).

The emphasis of these pilot projects will be to demonstrate ways to more fully leverage the assets and resources of the national MEP Program to provide assistance to small U.S. manufacturers in technology areas that are the focus of the Manufacturing USA Institutes.

See the Full Announcement/NOFO document for more details on eligibility.

Link to Additional Information: 2017-NIST-MEP-EMUSA-02 Full Announcement/NOFO document
Grantor Contact Information: If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:

Christopher Hunton

Management and Program Analyst

Phone 301-975-5718
Email:grants@nist.gov

Version History

Version Modification Description Updated Date

Folder 292963 Full Announcement-2017-NIST-MEP-EMUSA-02 NOFO -> 2017-NIST-MEP-EMUSA-02.pdf

Folder 292963 Other Supporting Documents-Application Instructions EMUSA -> APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS for 2017-NIST-MEP-EMUSA-02.pdf

Packages

Agency Contact Information: Christopher Hunton
Management and Program Analyst
Phone 301-975-5718
Email: grants@nist.gov
Who Can Apply: Organization Applicants

Assistance Listing Number Competition ID Competition Title Opportunity Package ID Opening Date Closing Date Actions
11.611 2017-NIST-MEP-EMUSA-02 Embedding MEP in Manufacturing USA Institutes Pilot Projects – Round 3 PKG00231794 Apr 03, 2017 Jun 02, 2017 View

Package 1

Mandatory forms

292963 SF424_2_1-2.1.pdf

292963 SF424B-1.1.pdf

292963 SF424A-1.0.pdf

292963 CD511-1.1.pdf

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