SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS
- Notice Date
- 7/13/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratory (DOE Contractor), Los Alamos, PO Box 1663 MS: C334, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- LAUR-07-4729
- Response Due
- 8/13/2007
- Archive Date
- 8/13/2007
- Description
- The Los Alamos National Security, LLC, which operates the Los Alamos National Laboratory under contract to the Department of Energy (DOE), solicits companies interested in partnering and collaborating with Los Alamos National Laboratory in the area of conventional and unconventional energy programs in support of the Department of Energy?s mission ?to advance the national, economic and energy security of the United States; to promote scientific and technological innovation in support of that mission; ....?. In particular, addressing the Department of Energy?s first strategic theme of Energy Security. Los Alamos National Laboratory has a long history of performing research in carbon-based and unconventional energy sources. These include: geothermal, hydrogen fuel and storage, superconductivity and electrical storage, oil shale, storage of LNG, fuel cells, nuclear electrical generation, and all aspects of the oil and gas industry. In addition, through its current DOE programs, the Laboratory has developed multiple energy related capabilities in: solar; wind; biofuels -including liquid fuels derived from biomass and biological metabolism; heavy oil; oil sands; coal utilization, including coal to liquids, gasification, coal/peat geochemistry and coal bed methane; methane hydrates; CO? capture; separations and sequestration; geomaterials; sensors; microdrilling; zero-emission carbon; carbon-neutral liquid fuels; chemical hydrogen storage; grid modeling and simulation; chemical synthesis and theory; safety codes and standards relating to hydrogen and fuel cell installation and use; and the modeling of environmental, efficiency, and reliability aspects of energy. Companies interested in partnering and pursuing research collaborations with Los Alamos National Laboratory should contact the Laboratory or respond with a Letter of Interest. The Letter of Interest should include the areas of conventional and unconventional energy interest by the company, in addition to a description of the company?s (1) business goals; (2) technical staff and resources; (3) financial resources to obtain business goals; (4) manufacturing and marketing capabilities; and (5) motivation for pursuing this opportunity. The Parties may be expected to execute a Nondisclosure Agreement before detailed discussions or technologies may be discussed. These collaborations may include Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA), sponsored research arrangement (DOE Work For Others) and/or to obtain an exclusive or nonexclusive license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market Los Alamos National Laboratory technologies in this area. This notice is not a call for proposals and no funding is available from Los Alamos National Laboratory related to this notice. A Letter of Interest will be accepted at anytime; however, the ability and availability of Los Alamos National Laboratory to collaborate and partner will be limited by the amount of available resources, the availability of funding to cover these partnering relationships, the Laboratory technical research directions that matches the interest of companies to pursue collaboration in a given project and Laboratory current projects already underway with companies with similar interest. Respondents that wish to enter into negotiations for a commercial license for Los Alamos technologies will be required to submit a comprehensive business plan or product commercialization plan prior to licensee(s) selection and negotiations. Please send Letters of Interest to the attention of John Russell, Licensing Executive, Email jrussell@lanl.gov.
- Place of Performance
- Address: PO Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM
- Zip Code: 87545
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 87545
- Record
- SN01341709-W 20070715/070713220632 (fbodaily.com)
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