SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Development of Technologies and Capabilities for Natural Gas Infrastructure reliability
- Notice Date
- 2/26/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- 3610 Collins Ferry Road (MS-002) P.O. Box 880 Morgantown, WV 26507-0880
- ZIP Code
- 26507-0880
- Solicitation Number
- DE-PS26-02NT41446
- Point of Contact
- Mary Gabriele, Contracting Officer, 304-285-4253, mgabri@netl.doe.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This solicitation supports the Natural Gas Infrastructure Reliability product line which is part of the Department of Energy?s Strategic Center for Natural Gas. This solicitation competitively seeks cost-shared applications for energy research and development (R&D) related activities that promote the efficient and sound production and use of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and oil). The primary purpose of the solicitation is to maintain and enhance the integrity and reliability of the natural gas transmission and distribution pipeline infrastructure. Research directed specifically towards expansion of the pipeline and major references to expansion will be discouraged. In an effort to determine the needs of the gas infrastructure industry, NETL sponsored visioning and road mapping workshops allowing representatives from natural gas organizations and industries to define and prioritize research directions necessary to maintain and expand the natural gas infrastructure. The input from these workshops has been summarized in a report entitled ?Pathways for Enhanced Integrity, Reliability and Deliverability? and is publicly available on the NETL Website at http://www.netl.doe.gov/scng/publications/naturalg.pdf. Applicants are encouraged to review the information contained in this document. To support the pipeline infrastructure, NETL is requesting R&D applications which will result in the development of technology which supports the current and future natural gas infrastructure. The solicitation will focus on research in the following areas: 1.) transmission systems, 2.) distribution systems and 3.) technologies which clearly affect both areas. Applicants may propose research in any area which supports the industries needs; however, the proposed work must address, but not necessarily limited to, research needs identified in the visioning and road mapping workshops. In addition to the proposed R&D effort, applicants will be required to include a discussion of the costs and benefits to ensure that the technology being developed has the potential to result in a useful commercial product which will be utilized by the natural gas infrastructure industry. DATES: Potential applicants are required to submit a brief, not to exceed seven pages, pre-application. The deadline for submissions of pre-applications and comprehensive applications will be identified in the solicitation. No comprehensive application will be evaluated unless a pre-application has been received and considered by the DOE. The review process for the pre-applications will be limited to a programmatic review that will result in encouraging or discouraging submission of a comprehensive application. However, discouraged applicants are not prohibited from submitting full applications. A response to the pre-applications will be communicated to the applicant within two weeks after the closing date for the pre-application. All pre-applications must be submitted through the Industry Interactive Procurement System (IIPS) system in accordance with the instructions in the solicitation. The solicitation will be available on the "Industry Interactive Procurement System" (IIPS) webpage located at http://e-center.doe.gov on or about March 1, 2002. The deadline for submission of pre-applications and comprehensive applications will be identified in the solicitation. Applicants can obtain access to the solicitation from the address above or through DOE/NETL?s website at http://www.netl.doe.gov/business.
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- Record
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