NIST is offering a grant for deploying and maintaining Business-to-Business Network (B2B Network) pilot projects. The pilots aim to facilitate real-time business opportunity scouting, technology scouting, supplier scouting, and market scouting. Applicants must establish and maintain data quality, identify opportunities, and make matches on behalf of companies. Closing date: Aug 04, 2014.
Opportunity ID: 258149
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | 2014-NIST-MEP-B2BN-01 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Business-to-Business Network Pilots |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 11.611 — Manufacturing Extension Partnership |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Jun 20, 2014 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 04, 2014 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 04, 2014 |
| Archive Date: | Sep 03, 2014 |
| 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 are existing Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Centers. Applicants are strongly encouraged to form teaming arrangements involving multiple MEP Centers and service providers such that multiple Centers share appropriate infrastructure (hardware, software, expertise, knowledge and/or services as examples) to address scouting needs on a regional level. An eligible organization may work individually or include proposed subawardees and/or contractors or other collaborators in a project proposal, effectively forming a team or consortium. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Description: | NIST invites proposals from eligible applicants to deploy and maintain one or more Business-to-Business Network (B2B Network) pilot projects. The B2B Network pilots shall have the human and information infrastructure needed to conduct real-time business opportunity scouting, technology scouting, supplier scouting and market scouting including the active content management and human interactions needed to establish and maintain data quality, identify opportunities and make matches on behalf of companies. |
| Link to Additional Information: | 2014-NIST-MEP-B2BN-01 Full Announcement/FFO document |
| 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
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Related Documents
Folder 258149 Full Announcement-1 -> B2B Network MEP FFO FINAL.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 | 2014-NIST-MEP-B2BN-01 | Business-to-Business Network Pilots | PKG00199704 | Jun 20, 2014 | Aug 04, 2014 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
258149 SF424-2.0.pdf
258149 CD511-1.1.pdf
258149 SF424B-1.1.pdf
258149 SF424A-1.0.pdf
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