DOD STTR 07 Solicitation has been issued for public release

The DoD STTR 2007 solicitation has been pre-released at http://www.dodsbir.net/solicitation. It invites small businesses and research institutions to jointly propose cooperative research and development efforts in response to topics in this solicitation. During the pre-release period, which ends on February 19, 2007, you may contact the topic authors directly (contact information is listed with the topic) to ask technical questions about specific solicitation topics. The DoD will begin accepting proposals on February 20, 2007 and will close to proposals on March 21, 2007 at 6am EST. Plan ahead and submit your proposal early to avoid the risk of website inaccessibility due to heavy usage on the final day.

Technical Q&A through SITIS

Once DoD begins accepting proposals on February 20, 2007, no further direct contact between proposers and topic authors is allowed, but proposers may submit written technical 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 March 7, 2007. All questions and answers will be posted through March 21, 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.

DoD SBIR Help Desk

If you have questions about this solicitation, proposal preparation, submission process or other program-related questions, please contact the DoD SBIR/STTR Help Desk at 866-724-7457 or by email at sbirhelp@brtrc.com

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.