This is a modification to the synopsis entitled FY 2009 IPP Seed Fund Call Announcement which was posted on February 19, 2009. You are notified that the following changes below are made:
The Innovative Partnerships Program (IPP) provides technology for NASA’s Mission Directorates, Programs and Projects through investments and technology partnerships with industry, academia, government agencies and national laboratories. As one of NASA's Mission Support Offices, IPP supports all four Mission Directorates and has program offices at each of the ten NASA Centers. The IPP Partnership Seed Fund over the last few years has demonstrated success by enhancing NASA's ability to meet mission technology goals by providing seed funding to address barriers and initiate cost-shared, joint-development partnerships. The IPP Seed Fund is used to provide "seed" funding to enable larger partnerships and development efforts to occur and will encourage, to the maximum extent possible, the leveraging of funding, resources and expertise from non-NASA partners, NASA Programs and Projects and NASA Centers.
This Call to NASA Centers is soliciting proposals for cost-shared partnerships with industry, academia, research institutions, national laboratories and other government agencies for joint development of technology that is of mission interest to Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD)– see the ARMD website: www.aeronautics.nasa.gov and NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) – see the ESMD website: www.exploration.nasa.gov. ARMD and ESMD have identified focused technology needs addressed by this updated call. Therefore, this modified announcement includes only those technology needs relevant to these two missions. This solicitation is being distributed through the NASA Center IPP Offices (IPPO). In order to solicit external interest for partnerships through this Call, this Announcement is posted to www.Fedbizopps.gov and the http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/ website. Responses to this Announcement must involve partnerships with NASA and be received from NASA personnel participating as a Partnership Manager (PM) in the Center IPP Office; with proposals including both an internal NASA Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) and an External Co-PI. Proposals submitted directly from parties external to NASA will not be accepted.
Project proposals, due for submission from NASA Centers by May 20, 2009, must include one or more non-NASA partners in addition to non-IPP NASA partners who are committed to cost-share at a desired level at least equal to, or greater than, the Seed Fund funding provided to the project. For prior Seed Fund projects in the aggregate, additional internal NASA resources have typically matched the Seed Fund contribution, with external resources matching total NASA resources (Mission Directorate and NASA program/project and/or Center) for a nearly 4:1 total leveraging for the project, relative to the IPP funding. Higher leveraging is desired and may enable more awards. Acceptable cost-sharing from the partner excludes any sunk costs and includes only actual dollars applied directly to the project, in-kind considerations such as workforce labor and the use of unique and dedicated facilities and testbeds. Monetary valuation of partner in-kind facility and/or testbed access should be based solely on actual costs incurred by the partner in the performance of the proposed project, and should not reflect the partner's already-incurred cost for developing the technology including the original capital expenditure for construction of the subject facilities and/or testbeds.
For further information and questions regarding this announcement, including the full Partnership Seed Fund Call for Proposals – 2009, visit the IPP Seed Fund website (http://ipp.nasa.gov/ti_seed_fund.htm ) or kindly contact the IPP Points of Contact at any of the ten NASA Centers listed below. The IPP Leads, at their respective NASA Centers, have primary responsibility for creating the partnership development, intellectual property and business aspects of the proposal.
Contact information for the IPP Points of Contact is as follows:
* Ames Research Center (ARC) Lisa Lockyer Phone: 650-604-3009 Email: Lisa.L.Lockyer@nasa.gov
* Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) Greg Poteat Phone: 661-276-3872 Email: Gregory.A.Poteat@nasa.gov
* Glenn Research Center (GRC) Kathy Needham Phone: 216-433-2802 Email: Kathleen.K.Needham@nasa.gov
* Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Nona Cheeks Phone: 301-286-5810 Email: techtransfer@gsfc.nasa.gov
* Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Andrew Gray Phone: 818-354-4906 Email: gray@jpl.nasa.gov
* Johnson Space Center (JSC) Michelle Lewis Phone: 281-483-8051 Email: michelle.p.lewis@nasa.gov
* Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Alexis Hongamen Phone: 321- 861-3107 Email: alexis.hongamen-1@nasa.gov
* Langley Research Center (LaRC) Brian Beaton Phone: 757-864-2192 Email: brian.f.beaton@nasa.gov
* Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Gwenevere Jasper Phone: 256-544-1666 Email: Gwenevere.l.jasper@nasa.gov
The due date for responses is extended.
Documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet. These documents will reside on a World Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/HQ Business Opportunities home page is http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=04
Offerors are responsible for monitoring this site for the release of the solicitation and any amendments. Potential offerors are responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments (if any).
