Business-to-Business Network Pilots

Post Date

June 20th 2014

Application Due Date

August 4th 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

2014-NIST-MEP-B2BN-01

CFDA Number(s)

11.611

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Eligibility Categories

Other

Eligible applicants are existing Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Centers. Applicants are strongly encouraged to form teaming arrangements involving multiple MEP Centers and service providers such that multiple Centers share appropriate infrastructure (hardware, software, expertise, knowledge and/or services as examples) to address scouting needs on a regional level. An eligible organization may work individually or include proposed subawardees and/or contractors or other collaborators in a project proposal, effectively forming a team or consortium.

Funding

• Award Range:

  $None - $None

Grant Description

NIST invites proposals from eligible applicants to deploy and maintain one or more Business-to-Business Network (B2B Network) pilot projects. The B2B Network pilots shall have the human and information infrastructure needed to conduct real-time business opportunity scouting, technology scouting, supplier scouting and market scouting including the active content management and human interactions needed to establish and maintain data quality, identify opportunities and make matches on behalf of companies.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Commerce

• Office:

  National Institute of Standards and Technology

• Agency Contact:

  Christopher Hunton
  Grants Technical Assistant
  Phone 301-975-5718

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Agency Contact

• Agency Email Address:

  christopher.hunton@nist.gov

• More Information:

  2014-NIST-MEP-B2BN-01 Full Announcement/FFO document