DOD SBIR 07.1 Solicitation Open for Submission

The DoD SBIR 2007.1 solicitation is open for proposal submission from December 6, 2006 through 6 a.m. EST January 10, 2007. Six DoD components -- the Department of the Air Force, the Department of the Navy, the Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Chemical Biological Defense (CBD), the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), and the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) -- have R&D topics in this solicitation under which Phase I proposals are sought. The Solicitation, which contains detailed information on the parameters of the SBIR program and how to submit a proposal, and Topics are available at http://www.dodsbir.net/solicitation. You may also search the topics by going to http://www.dodsbir.com/Topics.

Technical Q&A through SITIS

Once DoD begins accepting proposals on December 6, 2006, no further direct contact between proposers and topic authors is allowed, but proposers may submit written questions through the SBIR Interactive Topic Information System (SITIS), in which the questioner and respondent remain anonymous and all questions and answers are posted electronically for general viewing. SITIS closes to new questions on December 27, 2006. All questions and answers will be posted through January 10, 2007. All proposers are advised to monitor SITIS at http://www.dodsbir.net/sitis during the solicitation period for questions and answers and other information relevant to the topic under which they are proposing.

Proposal Submission

Proposals must be submitted via the DOD SBIR Submission website at http://www.dodsbir.net/submission following the instructions contained in the solicitation, including the instructions specified in the topic files for the DoD component to which you are applying. Submissions must include the proposal cover sheets, technical proposal, Company Commercialization Report, and cost proposal to be considered a complete proposal. Small businesses submitting proposals through the Submission website may modify their proposals at any time until the solicitation closing on January 10, 2007 at 6am EST. To use the DoD SBIR Submission website your browser must have scripting enabled and, if your firm has any Phase II awards, commercialization resulting from all prior Phase II awards must be reported and up to date. Offerors bear the risk of website inaccessibility due to heavy usage in the final hours before the solicitation closing time, so plan ahead and submit early.

Important New Information About The DoD SBIR Program

You will notice a couple of changes in the Company Commercialization Report.

(1) As a new feature, recently awarded DoD Phase II projects will automatically be added to your Company Commercialization Report and highlighted in yellow. You need only enter sales, investment and additional commercialization information for these projects. However, you are still responsible for adding a new project for each non-DoD Phase II award received by your firm.

(2) Cost saving information will now be documented. If the technology developed under the Phase II project achieved a cost savings or cost avoidance, you must indicate the amount of the savings, the agency or end user and system realizing the savings, and how the savings was calculated.

(3) A new field has been added to collect sales from products or services embodying the Phase II technology that accrued to others outside your firm. If your firm sold or licensed the technological know-how developed under phase II to another entity, you must enter the cash revenue accruing to the other entity from its sale of new products or non-R&D services embodying the phase II technology in the new "3rd Party Sales" field and only report revenues your firm received with your firm's sales figures.

(4) DoD routinely analyzes its databases for potential errors, duplications, and other inaccuracies. If your firm was notified by the DoD over the past two months regarding an inconsistency and you have not responded, your firm will be unable to prepare and submit a proposal until you contact the DoD SBIR/STTR Program Support Team at 1-866-724-7457.

DoD SBIR Help Desk

If you have any questions please contact the DoD SBIR Help Desk at 866-724-7457 or by email at sbirhelp@brtrc.com.