Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Projects - Strategic Growth Areas

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	Federal Grant Title:	Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Projects - Strategic Growth Areas
	CFDA Number:	11.611
	CFDA Description:	Manufacturing Extension Partnership
	Federal Agency Name:	National Institute of Standards and Technology
	Category of Funding Activity:	Other
	Category Explanation:	Manufacturing Extension Services
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	2010-MEP-SDCC-01
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
	Posted Date:	Jun 16, 2010
	Creation Date:	Jun 16, 2010
	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
	Expected Number of Awards:	Information not provided
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	Information not provided
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	Yes

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: 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.
Grant 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 Full Grant Announcement: http://www.nist.gov/mep/upload/2010-mep-ffo-service-delivery-deployment-expansion-competition-competition-2-final-v1e-06-10-10-2.pdf
Grant Announcement Contact: Christopher Hunton Grants Technical Assistant Phone 301-975-5718

Agency Contact [christopher.hunton@nist.gov]
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