SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- VERTICAL LIFT RESEARCH CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (VLRCOE) PROGRAM
- Notice Date
- 2/24/2021 12:22:28 PM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541715
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- ACC-AVIATION APPLIED TECHNOLOGY DIR FORT EUSTIS VA 23604-5577 USA
- ZIP Code
- 23604-5577
- Solicitation Number
- W911W6-21-R-0003
- Response Due
- 4/16/2021 1:00:00 PM
- Archive Date
- 05/01/2021
- Point of Contact
- Thomas Helms, Phone: 7578782900, Kenny Hood
- E-Mail Address
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thomas.m.helms6.civ@mail.mil, kenneth.m.hood.civ@mail.mil
(thomas.m.helms6.civ@mail.mil, kenneth.m.hood.civ@mail.mil)
- Description
- I. OVERVIEW OF NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 1. �Federal Awarding Agency Name: United States (U.S.) Army Contracting Command - Redstone, Contracting Division F (CCAM-MZA-F) (Fort Eustis, Virginia 23604-5577) on behalf of the U.S. Army Futures Command (AFC), Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM), Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC), Technology Development Directorate-Aviation Technology (TDD-A) �� 2.� Funding Opportunity Title: Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE) Program 3.� Announcement Type: Initial Announcement 4.� Funding Opportunity Number: W911W6-21-R-0003 5.� Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number(s): 12.598 Centers for Academic Excellence 6. �Key Dates: The schedule for the review and selection of proposals for the VLRCOE program is as follows: ����������� February 3, 2021��������������������� Pre-proposal Conference (Academia Day) ����������� April 16, 2021������������������������� Proposals due ����������� July 30, 2021 �������������������������� Agreement Awards A pre-proposal �Academia Day� will be held on Wednesday, February 3, 2021 virtually over the Microsoft Teams platform.� At the �Academia Day� the Technical Leads from the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and NASA will describe their technical plans.� �Academia Day� Registration information form is at ATTACHMENT 4: ACADEMIA DAY REGISTRATION FORM.� All forms shall be submitted via email by Friday, February 1, 2021 as directed on the registration form.� II. NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY A. �PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The purpose of this NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY is to seek proposals for award of a Cooperative Agreement to conduct basic research focused on scientific barriers in technologies relevant to vertical lift and to provide a scientific foundation for enabling technologies for future force capabilities. This notice is pursuant to Title 2, Grants and Agreements, Chapter XI�Department of Defense, Part 200�Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, And Audit Requirements for Federal Awards, and any other references herein. Since 1982, the U.S. Army has continuously supported a successful Centers of Excellence program focused on vertical lift technology. The original Center for Education and Research in Rotary Wing Aviation Technology (CERWAT) was initiated in 1982 to increase academia�s contribution to the vertical lift technology by focusing on both academic research and graduate education in the multi-disciplinary research areas comprising vertical lift technology.� In 1996, the program refocused as the Rotorcraft Center of Excellence (RCOE) program with additional emphasis on collaborative research with the government and industry partners through another collaborative applied research program.� In 2006, the program was reenergized as the Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE) emphasizing inter-disciplinary multi-university teams to bring together multi-disciplinary vertical lift research areas. The current five-year VLRCOE program concludes at the end of calendar year 2021.� This research is best conducted in a concentrated interdisciplinary center, the Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE), which will couple state-of-the-art research programs at Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) with broad-based graduate education programs to strengthen the academia�s contribution to vertical lift research and technology.� This VLRCOE program is funded by the United States (U.S.) Army, the U.S. Navy, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and is managed by the U.S. Army Technology Development Directorate � Aviation Technology (TDD-A), part of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).� The program is intended to support long-term basic research objectives of the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, and NASA, to establish a significant dual-use technology base from which to draw substantial knowledge and capabilities, and to provide a source of highly-qualified vertical lift research professionals for the broader vertical lift aviation community.� The VLRCOE program extends and updates the U.S. Army�s continuing support of the original Center of Excellence on Rotary Wing Aircraft Technology initiated in 1982.� This announcement covers the VLRCOE program for five (5) program years, initiating in the year 2021 and continuing through 2026. B. �FEDERAL AWARD INFORMATION A cooperative agreement pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2358 is the intended funding instrument for awards resulting from this NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY.� Such awards will provide for a five year performance period.� As stated later in this Announcement, substantial Government involvement is anticipated.� The Government will assess the overall performance of the program at the end of each year.� Procurement contracts are not anticipated to be awarded. Proposals should conform to the procedural and submission guidelines covered in this Notice and attachments.� Proposals should be as complete as possible and be submitted on the Applicants most favorable terms. In order to be considered responsive to this NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY, a proposal submission must, at a minimum, describe the range of faculty capabilities and appropriate vertical lift-related course work in a number of disciplines to establish a Center; present research projects (tasks) to be conducted by the Center within at least four areas of interest identified in this NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY; contain sufficient technical, management and cost information to perform a meaningful evaluation; be signed by an official authorized to legally bind the proposing organization; not merely offer to perform standard services or to just provide services; and not significantly duplicate a more specific, current, or pending Department of Defense (DoD) or NASA solicitation. Proposals submitted under this NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY should include research tasks in at least four of the following fields: (1) Aeromechanics, (2) Structures & Materials, (3) Flight Dynamics & Control, (4) Advanced Vertical Take-off/Landing Concepts & Designs, (5) Vibration & Noise Control, (6) Propulsion, (7) Affordability, (8) Safety & Survivability, and (9) Human Factors Engineering.� A list of suggested topics in these areas is provided in ATTACHMENT 3, RESEARCH FIELDS AND EXAMPLE RESEARCH TOPICS.� Proposals in additional fields not explicitly mentioned will also be considered provided they directly address the objectives of the NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY. Research should be focused on basic scientific issues that are of importance to vertical lift systems and technologies, and that have the potential for making significant contributions towards U.S. Army and U.S. Navy research thrusts and are aligned with DoD and NASA goals and missions.� Interdisciplinary research efforts should be emphasized, but should be focused on fundamental physical phenomena or understandings and not targeted to demonstrate or mature a specific concept or configuration. Tasks that develop material solutions to vertical lift technology problems based on existing technologies and scientific knowledge are discouraged. Tasks that aim to develop low-noise technologies or devices for application to rotors are also discouraged. Technical proposals should clearly describe the background and objectives of the proposed research, the approaches to be considered and how they advance the state of the art, the level of effort to be employed, the anticipated results, and the manner in which the work will contribute to the U.S. industry and military aviation.� Plans should be discussed for proactively transferring the technology and partnering of these research endeavors to the vertical flight industry and military aviation communities. Proposals should describe plans for attracting the highest caliber graduate students into the VLRCOE program. The anticipated total Government funding for the program is approximately $4,500,000 per year over the five-year program duration. However, the total proposed budget for each proposal shall not exceed $2,500,000 per year.� It is intended that a Center will be a competitive environment, both within each individual Center and between the Centers, in which the annual program review will provide opportunities for evaluating progress on technical tasks and making changes to the program as needed.� Although a five-year program with specific tasks will be negotiated for each Center prior to award, the Government reserves the right, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement governing modifications and additional research, to limit the period of performance for certain tasks to a shorter duration, to add new tasks or make changes to existing tasks as additional Government funding becomes available and/or to redirect funding from tasks that are not productive. C. �ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION 1. Eligible Applicants This NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY is open to all responsible sources. Applicants may include single entities or teams from industry and academia. VLRCOE is to provide a critical mass of multi-disciplinary research capability focused on vertical lift research.� A broad range of faculty expertise and appropriate vertical lift technology related course work in several disciplines is required to establish a Center.� In order to achieve adequate program balance, subcontracts with other universities may be proposed. Leadership of teams proposing to this program must reside within U.S. IHEs.� Supporting or subcontracting participation is open to all U.S. organizations.� In general, U.S. Federal Government Agencies that participate as team members are expected to supply their own funding and are not eligible for funding under this NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY. The Government encourages Nonprofit Organizations, Educational Institutions, Small Businesses, Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) concerns, and women-owned small business, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Minority Serving Institutions (MSI), Women-Owned Businesses (WB), and Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) zone enterprises, as well as large businesses and academic institutions, to submit research proposals for consideration and/or to join others in submitting proposals.� International collaborations with non-U.S. organizations are possible if they complement the Center program by bringing in unique technical expertise. However, non-U.S. organizations, as well as work performed by non-U.S. organizations as a part of the proposal submitted by a U.S. organization, are not eligible for Government funding. This restriction does not apply to non-U.S. citizen students or researchers. Government Entities desirous of proposing anything under this NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY cannot do so unless they clearly demonstrate: (1) the proposed work is not otherwise available from the private sector, and (2) provide official written documentation citing the specific statutory authority and contractual authority, if relevant, establishing their ability to propose to Government solicitations. The Army Contracting Command (ACC) will consider eligibility considerations provided by FFRDCs and Government entities on a case-by case basis; however, the burden of proof to establish eligibility rests with the applicant. Foreign Entities: Participation as prime recipient is limited to U.S. institutions of higher education.� The intention of this NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY is to stimulate research to strengthen U.S. research and development, with the primary benefit directed to the U.S. government and vertical lift industry base. Companies or business entities that are directly or indirectly controlled by a foreign institution or government are ineligible for funding under this NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY.� Research proposals involving collaboration with foreign institution(s) by a U.S. prime recipient will be considered provided that the work performed by the foreign institution(s) is funded independently outside of the VLRCOE program, and that the international collaborations complement the VLRCOE program by bringing in unique talent/capabilities. Institutions engaging non-US persons in research activities shall accept responsibility for and bear costs incurred in their own compliance with technology export regulations, as applicable. 2. �Cost Sharing or Matching The Government anticipates Cooperative Agreement award(s) under 10 U.S.C 2358, as the Government desires to be substantially involved in the performance of the VLRCOE Program.� Voluntary cost share participation will be considered in accordance with Code for Federal Regulation (CFR) 200.306 (Cost Sharing or Matching), however, cost share or matching is not required and will not be part of the evaluation process.� If proposed, the cost share will notify the Government that the Applicant has a vested interest in the program�s success. �Therefore, Applicants are encouraged to include cost share to the maximum extent practicable. �Cost share may be in the form of cash (where cash is considered of significantly higher quality in demonstrating commitment to the project), in-kind contributions, third party in-kind contribution, equipment use, etc.� U.S. Government resources may not be considered as cost sharing. Contributions listed below will be regarded as �neutral� with regard to resource sharing goals, and they will not count as either a government or a private company contribution to resource sharing goals. These include:� (a) cash or in-kind contributions provided by state or local governments (specifically for the NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES project proposal, and not generally provided for some other purpose) where the cash or in-kind resource is funded by the U.S. Government; (b) in-kind contributions by federal laboratories that are members of a proposing team (e.g., as in a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement), or (c) tangible products of past government funding that are legally owned by a member of a NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES proposal team (e.g. equipment developed as part of previous VLRCOE efforts and/or a Small Business Innovation Research contract). Federal laboratories that are participants in a NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES proposal team may use resources from non-NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES sources to support the proposal team (for example, a commitment of research time, paid separately) if that use is consistent with other regulatory and statutory requirements.� Any planned reliance on non-NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES government resources for project implementation must be clearly documented and a commitment to provide the resources documented in the proposal. 3. �Other Multiple awards are anticipated; however, the total number of awards under this NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY is not pre-determined. There is no limit on the number of proposals an Applicant may submit.� Submission of multiple proposals must be distinguishable by the investigators, organizations, or beneficiaries.� Each proposal must be submitted separately. Applicants must adhere to all federal regulations and any �known or unknown� identified violation will render the applicant ineligible.� D. �APPLICATION AND SUBMISSION INFORMATION 1. �Address to Request Application Package The complete Notice of Funding Opportunity solicited hereunder includes the following documents: 1.� Notice of Funding Opportunity (this document) 2.� Attachment 1 � Proposal Format � Describes the required proposal format and templates for use 3.� Attachment 2 � Research Fields and Example Research Topics � these example topics are intended to help illustrate the scope of the fields and do not comprise a comprehensive list of all possible research topics nor do they indicate DoD requirements. 4.� Attachment 3 � Academia Day Registration Form - the registration form for attendance at the planned Academia Day.� Parties interested in attending Academia Day must submit a completed registration by Friday, January 29, 2021. All relevant attachments are included with this NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY. Only electronic copies will be provided, hard copies will not be sent via U.S. Postal or any other service.� If there are any difficulties in receiving these documents, contact the points of contact listed below.� 2. �Content and Form of Application Submission i. �Pre-Applications, Letters of Intent, or White Papers Pre-Applications, Letter of Intent and White Papers are not applicable to this NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY. ii. �The Application� All proposals shall be arranged according to the format specified herein and the included attachments. Proposals should be written concisely, in English. The proposal should include the following sections for a five-year research program based on the research fields discussed in ATTACHMENT 3, entitled, RESEARCH FIELDS AND EXAMPLE RESEARCH TOPICS.� Management Section, Budget Section and Technical Section. The Management and Budget Sections (Sections B.1 and B.2) are limited to a total of 25 pages inclusive of both sections.� The Technical section (Section B.3) is limited to 100 pages, while each proposed task is limited to 5 pages each.� Page limitations are inclusive of any drawings, charts, etc., and exclusive of section dividers, table of contents, list of figures/tables, glossary of terms, and cross-referencing indices (which are not considered content pages).� The evaluators will read and evaluate only those pages which do not exceed the maximum number of pages specified.� Pages shall be standard 8 � x 11 inch paper and main body type shall be not less than a 10-point minimum font size, not less than single spacing (a maximum of 6 lines per inch) with margins at least 1 inch.� Types smaller than 10-point are permitted only for captions, sub/super-scripts and labeling of figures and graphs. Management Section (B.1): The management section should contain at a minimum: Institutional Commitments:� All proposals shall be endorsed by their sponsoring institution.� Only properly endorsed proposals are acceptable.� Proposals that are not endorsed will be returned without being evaluated. The cover page contains space for this endorsement by an institutional representative authorized to legally bind the institution to perform the proposed effort. Third-party letters of endorsement supporting the proposal without active participation are discouraged and will not be provided to the evaluation team. ����� Proposals shall describe the methods by which the project will be directed, coordinated and executed.� Plans for dissemination of responsibilities and any necessary arrangement for ensuring a coordinated effort shall be described for efforts involving interactions among individuals from more than one department or organization. The proposal shall describe the internal structure of the VLRCOE Center and its expected effectiveness in attracting and retaining first-rate students. The proposal shall give a description of the Applicant�s plan to involve the outside community in the activities of the Center.� In particular, the Applicant should outline plans for technology transfer and for generating cooperative activities with government research laboratories, industry, or other academic institutions. The proposal shall describe how the Center will efficiently and effectively plan the research effort, focusing on programmatic, reporting, financial, and administrative matters. Supporting Facilities and Equipment:� Applicants should include a brief description of the facilities and equipment available for the proposed tasks and identify any government-owned facilities or equipment that are proposed for use on the task. It is important to recognize that the DoD operates its facilities based on a full-cost accounting system.� Before requesting purchase of a major item of capital equipment, the Applicant shall determine if sharing or loan of equipment already within the organization is a feasible alternative to purchase.� Where such arrangements cannot be made, the proposal shall so state. Biographical Sketches:� Proposals shall provide brief biographical sketches, including research areas of interest for each principal investigator and key personnel directly associated with the proposal. Budget Section (B.2) : The budget shall be presented with the Budget Forms enclosed in ATTACHMENT 1: PROPOSAL FORMATS, Section B.2, Budget Format.� The cost portion of the proposal shall contain cost estimates sufficient for a meaningful evaluation.� Budgets must be presented by cost elements as detailed below:� The total government funding requested for each proposal shall not exceed $2,500,000 per year.� The estimated costs must be broken down for each of the five years of the program to show the following: (a)� Direct labor and labor hours: The percentage of research time and salaries to be charged should be identified by academic year and summer effort for principal investigators. (b)� Proposed number of graduate students supported under this task. Include fraction for students only partially supported. (c)� If proposals involve collaborations with institutions different from that of the Center lead and they require funding support, the budget of each participating institution shall be listed under category �3a Subcontracts�.� Details of the budgets of such participating institutions shall be provided separately. (d)� A description of services or materials to be acquired by sub-awards/contract must be included in the proposal.� Sub-awards/contract proposals exceeding $100,000 must provide the following information. If known, the identification of the proposed sub-awards/contract awards and an explanation of why and how the subcontractor was selected or will be selected. Whether or not the award will be competitive and, if noncompetitive, rationale to justify the absence of competition. The proposed sub-award/contract awards in sufficient detail to allow for meaningful evaluation. If there is a requirement for consulting services, a justification must be provided.� Payments to individuals for consultant services under a U.S. Army cooperative agreement shall be consistent with CFR Title 2, Grants and Agreements, Chapter II, Part 200, Section 200.306 and 200.430 and OMB Circular A-21, �Cost Principles for Educational Institutions�. An itemized list of permanent equipment to be acquired showing the cost of each item.� Permanent equipment is any article of non-expendable tangible personal property having a useful life of more than two years and an acquisition cost of $5,000 or more per unit. A general description and total estimated cost of expendable equipment and supplies. Contemplated expenditures for travel with brief explanation, including the number of travelers, duration, destination, per diem, air transportation, and the name of the meeting/event. Direct costs � Please refer to OMB Circular, A-21, Cost Principles for Educational Institutions, or other cost principles applicable to the proposing entity. Facility and Administrative Costs � The Institution�s negotiated indirect cost rate agreement. Proposed Cost Sharing should include the list of sponsors and the amount of cost sharing. Technical Section (B.3): The technical description shall be prepared in a manner that addresses the selection criteria in this Announcement. The technical section of the proposal shall detail the proposed research.� The format is given in ATTACHMENT 1: PROPOSAL FORMATS, Section B.3, Technical Narrative Format.� This section is the most important for selection.� Each section should describe a single proposed research task including research objectives in terms of specific physical phenomena and basic innovative research, current technical barriers or challenges, and the uniqueness of the proposed research.� Please describe physical phenomena of interest as specifically as possible and avoid general statements.� The proposed work should emphasize innovative, creative basic research that increases our knowledge and understanding physics and phenomena unique to vertical lift concepts and configurations. Research tasks should not be uniquely tied to specific aircraft or systems and need not offer immediate or specifically identifiable improvements in vertical lift technology. Projects that merely apply engineering methods to develop or evaluate unusual vehicle configurations or components are not of interest under this Announcement. However, projects aimed at novel vehicle configurations or components may be considered if they are especially innovative, improve fundamental knowledge and/or offer novel experimental, analytical, or computational methods.� Although software development per se is not a goal of this Announcement, projects demonstrating new analytical methods via their software implementation may be considered. The technical portion should include a summary of proposed budget including the number of graduate students supported under the task. Additional Application Information: The Government anticipates Intellectual Property may be generated as a result of award and will be negotiated.� All Intellectual Property rights will adhere to 2 CFR � 200.448 Intellectual property, or as otherwise agreed to in the resulting Cooperative Agreement.� Intellectual Property (i.e., rights in technical data, computer software, computer databases, and computer software documentation), will, in general, be negotiated on the following basis: 1.� The Government desires Government Purpose Rights (GPR) in delivered Technical Data, Computer Software, Computer Databases and Computer Software Documentation. a.� In the event that Technical Data, Computer Software, Computer Databases and/or Computer Software Documentation were produced at private expense prior to performance of or outside the scope of any resulting Agreement and is considered by the Applicant to embody trade secrets or to comprise commercial or financial information which is privileged or confidential, such information must be identified in the proposal and, if delivered to the Government may be delivered subject to Limited or Restricted Rights. b.� Marking instructions for any protected materials will generally conform to the requirements of 15 U.S.C. � 3710a(c)(7)(A) & (B) and the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. � 552 et seq; and is identified as such by labels or markings designating the information as proprietary. 2.� Patent Rights: For any award made as a result of this NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY, the disposition of rights to inventions made by any participant shall be governed by Title 35 of the United States Code and 2 CFR � 200.448 Intellectual property. iii. �Component Pieces of the Application As noted in the previous section, ATTACHMENT 1: PROPOSAL FORMATS contains the format and content template and instructions for the proposal submission. iv. �Information that successful applicants must submit after notification of intent to make a Federal award, but prior to a Federal award Applicants shall include any required statements within the proposal of any environmental impact of the work, human subject or animal care provisions, conflict of interest, or on such other topics as may be required by the nature of the effort and current statutes, executive orders, or other current government-wide guidelines. The preponderance of research performed is anticipated to be basic or fundamental research exempt from export controls.� However, it is possible that one or more project tasks may require access to and/or the requirement to generate technical data the export of which may be restricted by the Arms Export Control Act (Title 22, U. S. C., Sec. 2751 et. Seq.) or Executive Order 12470.� 3. �Unique entity identifier and System for Award Management (SAM) Each applicant (unless an individual or Federal awarding agency that is excepted from those requirements under 2 CFR � 25.110(b) or (c), or has an exception approved by the Federal awarding agency under 2 CFR � 25.110(d)) is required to submit and maintain the following.� The Government reserves the right to not award to any applicant that does not comply with these requirements.� In addition, any applicant not meeting these requirements prior to the award, will be deemed not qualified for award and may use that basis to award to another applicant. (1) Be registered in SAM before submitting its application; (2) provide a valid unique entity identifier in its application; and (3) continue to maintain an active SAM registration with current information at all times during which it has an active Federal award or an application or plan under consideration by a Federal awarding agency. 4. �Submission Dates and Times Proposals shall be submitted via upload to the DoD SAFE site in accordance with the below. DOD SAFE submission is the only authorized method for proposal submission under this Funding Opportunity.� Proposals shall be submitted via upload to the DoD Safe Access File Exchange at https://dod.safe.apps.milS.� In order to utilize the SAFE site, a drop off request is required.� Applicants shall request a drop off via email to BOTH of the following points of contact: Mr. Thomas M. Helms at thomas.m.helms6.civ@mail.mil AND Mr. Kenny Hood at kenneth.m.hood.civ@mail.mil).� The email requesting the drop off shall include the following in the subject line: �Drop-off request W911W6-21-R-0003�.� Drop off requests shall be submitted at least 3 business days prior to the proposal due date. �The upload link is valid for fourteen days.� Applicants will receive an automated email containing a link to upload the files.� Please follow the link instructions.� Upon request, applicants will be provided acknowledgement of proposal receipt. Applicants may submit one or more proposals, and each proposal will be evaluated independently. Applicants may withdraw proposal(s) at any time. Unless the Applicant specifies a different proposal expiration date, proposals will be considered valid for Government acceptance through September 30, 2021. Questions shall be submitted in writing via email to thomas.m.helms6.civ@mail.mil and kenneth.m.hood.civ@mail.mil.� All questions must be submitted within 7 days prior to the due date to ensure a response.� All questions and responses received will be posted to beta.SAM.gov as an amendment to the Notice.� i. �Any deadline in terms of a date and local time PROPOSALS MUST BE UPLOADED TO THE SAFE SITE NOT LATER THAN 4:00 PM EDT, FRIDAY APRIL 16, 2021 � ii. �What the deadline means Proposals must be received by the date and time specified above. To minimize the possibility of a late submission due to unexpected network or equipment issues, DoD recommends that proposals be submitted prior to the date and time specified above for receipt of proposals to eliminate the possibility of any submission issues which could impact timely receipt of proposals. iii. �The effect of missing a deadline Proposals submitted after the date and time specified above will be considered �late� and will not be reviewed or considered by the Government. 5. �Intergovernmental Review Not applicable.� This NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY does not fall under Executive Order 12372 for Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs 6. �Funding Restrictions See Section C.1. above. 7. �Other Submission Requirements None E. �APPLICATION REVIEW INFORMATION 1. �Criteria The selection of primary sources (i.e., Centers or VLRCOEs) for award will be based on an evaluation of proposals in accordance with the criteria set forth below and in the Attachments.� To be selected, proposing U.S. IHEs must offer a range of faculty capabilities and appropriate vertical lift-related course work in a number of disciplines to establish a �Center.�� A Center may be composed of a lead university and partner universities collaborating to provide the scope of pro...
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