SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PROGRAM - PHASE I AND FAST-TRACK
- Notice Date
- 10/6/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541720
— Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Contracting Office
- Department of Education, Contracts & Acquisitions Management, Contracts (All ED Components), 550 12th Street, SW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC, 20202
- ZIP Code
- 20202
- Solicitation Number
- errd080008
- Response Due
- 1/6/2006
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The US Department of Education, via the Institute of Education Science's National Center for Education Research, intends to solicit offerors for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. SBIR is a highly competitive program that encourages small business to explore their technological potential and provides the incentive to profit from its commercialization. By including qualified small businesses in the nation's R&D arena, high-tech innovation is stimulated and the United States gains entrepreneurial spirit as it meets its specific research and development needs. Offers will be accepted for the development of products and services that help further the mission of the Department of Education. Specifically, there will be two priorities for this solicitation: PRIORITY 1 -- Services This priority supports research to develop effective business consulting services that can better serve the education community at both the local and state levels. The Institute of Education Sciences SBIR Program invites proposals that seek to develop a plan or a business model for the provision of such services. Examples of relevant services include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Education Data Management - There is a need to provide schools, districts and States with more effective data management tools that support their efforts to meet the standards set forth in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). An example would be an proposal or service designed to provide a particular school, a group of schools, or a local district with test results that have been condensed into readable and easily interpretable language for teacher and principal use. This service might also include the development of classroom profiles depicting students' performance and providing recommendations on courses of action to be taken in order to enhance student achievement. 2. Evidence-Driven Consulting Services - Superintendents, principals and teachers could benefit from technical assistance in applying empirically based studies about a particular content area (e.g., reading, mathematics, science) to the local context. In addition, schools that are having trouble meeting the requirements of NCLB could benefit from consulting services designed to provide them with a menu of options and strategies they could implement in order to enhance student learning and achievement. 3. Financial Data Services at the School, District or State Level - These services might include the further development of existing financial software and/or the evaluation of existing commercial software to determine which product best meets the need of the school, district or state systems. Offerors are encouraged to consult the background section of the Education Finance, Leadership, and Management program solicitation for a more detailed description of the limitations the Institute sees in existing financial software. This program solicitation can be accessed at: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ies/programs.html?src=mr 4. Technology Consulting Services - These services might focus on assisting schools with the selection and implementation of relevant educational technologies and most importantly, on training teachers and other relevant school personnel on how to make most effective use of these new technologies. PRIORITY 2 -- Products Awards up to $100,000 This priority supports the development of empirically derived educational products in the areas of reading or mathematics or science or character/pro-social development at the pre-kindergarten through post-secondary levels, including products that support teachers and administrators as well as products that are used directly by students. Offerors are encouraged to consult the background section of the individual solicitations for other Institute grant competitions in the topic areas listed above to better understand the thinking behind this priority. All relevant solicitations can be accessed at: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ies/programs.html?src=mr. Products may include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Software Proposals 2. Supplemental Educational Materials (i.e., workbooks, readers and professional development materials) 3. Assessment instruments The SBIR Program is made up of three phases: Phase I is to determine, insofar as possible, the scientific or technical merit and feasibility of ideas submitted under the SBIR program, Phase II is to expand on the results of and to further pursue the development of Phase I projects and is the principal research or R&D effort, and Phase III , the small business must use non-SBIR capital to pursue commercial proposals of the research or research and development. This solicitation will principally be for Phase I. However, under ED's new Fast-Track program, offerors may apply concurrently for Phase I and Phase II. Phase I awards may not exceed $100,000 and Phase II awards may not exceed $750,000. The opening date is on or around November 4, 2005, the closing date is January 6, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. EST. Copies of the solicitation will be available for download on www.FEDBIZOPPS.GOV. Copies of the solicitation may also be available at http://www.ed.gov/programs/sbir/index.html.
- Record
- SN00910489-W 20051008/051006211801 (fbodaily.com)
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