Closed · 2010-MEP-SDCC-01 · CFDA 11.611 · Discretionary
Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Projects - Strategic Growth Areas
Federal grant opportunity posted by National Institute of Standards and Technology, cataloged on Grants.gov.
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The verdict
Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Projects - Strategic Growth Areas is a closed discretionary listing from National Institute of Standards and Technology that offered Varies by applicant. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number.
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- award range
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- CFDA program
Opportunity snapshot. This Grants.gov announcement - Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Projects - Strategic Growth Areas - is cataloged under number 2010-MEP-SDCC-01 and tied to CFDA assistance listing 11.611, posted by National Institute of Standards and Technology. Grants.gov currently shows the opportunity as closed, first posted on June 16, 2010. The funding category is Discretionary, delivered as a cooperative agreement.
Award economics. The award range on file is Varies by applicant. Cost sharing or matching funds are required, meaning applicants must contribute a portion of the project budget from non-federal sources, factor this into your financial plan before drafting the proposal. Federal award ranges are often upper bounds; actual allocations reflect program appropriations, the strength of the applicant pool, and the evaluation committee's scoring.
Deadline and action path. This opportunity is closed. Monitoring the parent program page is the most reliable way to catch re-announcements in the next funding cycle. Every Grants.gov submission requires an active SAM.gov registration and a Unique Entity ID. Review the Eligibility section below carefully, federal eligibility categories (nonprofit, state or local government, tribal, individual, educational institution, small business) have distinct registration and reporting requirements. Pre-application outreach to the listed agency contact is permitted and often welcomed, it helps clarify scope and scoring priorities. Before acting on the deadline or award figures above, verify them directly on the official Grants.gov listing, amendments can change dates and amounts after this page was last refreshed.
Award Range
Varies by applicant
Close Date
Not specified
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.
Posted
June 16, 2010
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Cost Sharing
Required
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.
Eligibility
Grants.gov lists this opportunity under eligibility category code 25. These codes correspond to applicant types (state/local government, tribal organization, nonprofit, educational institution, individual, small business, etc.) defined in Grants.gov's own eligibility reference. See the current Grants.gov eligibility categories or check the official listing below for this opportunity's exact eligibility statement.
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Agency Contact
Christopher Hunton Grants Technical Assistant Phone 301-975-5718
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