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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF MAY 25, 2005 FBO #1276
SOLICITATION NOTICE

R -- ESTIMATING THE FLOW OF INVESTMENT BY ANGEL OR INFORMAL INVESTORS A STUDY OF METHODOLOGY

Notice Date

5/23/2005
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

NAICS

541611 — Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
 

Contracting Office

Small Business Administration, Office of Administration, Office of Procurement and Grants Management, 409 Third Street, S.W., 5th Floor, Washington, DC, 20416
 

ZIP Code

20416
 

Solicitation Number

SBAHQ-05-Q-0019
 

Response Due

6/24/2005
 

Archive Date

7/9/2005
 

Small Business Set-Aside

Total Small Business
 

Description

The Office of Advocacy seeks proposals on how best to produce data on angel investment. The following background information serves as the motivation for soliciting proposals on this topic. 1.Informal capital has been important in financing the growth of innovative startups in the U.S. It has become even more important during the past several years after the collapse of the IPO and the venture capital markets. During 2001 through 2003, speculation was that informal investors provided the only seed capital that was needed so much during that period. 2.Statistical information about angels is limited. Information on angel investment, especially investment by angel capital networks, is becoming increasingly available as a result of efforts by the Kauffman Foundation. Moreover, recent efforts to provide estimates of angel investment have accomplished much. However, two major studies, one by Jeffrey Sohl of the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire and another by William Bygrave of Babson College in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor?s 2003 Global Report on Venture Capital provided substantially different estimates (e.g., around $100 billion for one estimate versus $15 to $20 billion in the other estimate). 3.Since angel investing is engaged by the general population, it would be more economical to identify informal investors for survey purposes through special statistical approaches. For instance, it would be very costly to adopt the method used in an earlier Advocacy project on informal investors during the early 1980s and the approach used by the GEM program. It is a challenge to identify informal investors for statistical surveys of their investment activity.Questions and answers for this procurement shall commence on May 30, 2005 and end on June 7, 2005. No questions after June 7, 2005. Questions MUST be email to the Contracting officer (billy.jenkins@sba.gov). Fax proposals will not be accepted.
 

Place of Performance

Address: 409 3rd Street SW, Washington DC

Zip Code: 20416

Country: US
 

Record

SN00814027-W 20050525/050523212425 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
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