DEPT. OF ENERGY (DOE) SMALL BUSINESS INITIATIVES PROGRAM The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), its laboratories, and production facilities are committed to helping small businesses in the United States to improve the cycle from new ideas and product innovation to product development and commercialization. To achieve this goal, the DOE has put in place a Small Business Initiatives Program which lets small businesses tap into technical capabilities that have been developed and refined over the past 50 years as a part of its national defense, energy and technology missions. DOE's objective in offering this assistance is to establish mutually beneficial technology partnerships that can leverage advanced technologies and enhance the U.S. position in the ever changing global marketplace. This opportunity allows DOE's laboratories and production facilities to partner with small businesses in a number of cooperative research and development projects that are focused at resolving technical problems and/or product development issues for the small business and provides dual-use benefit to the DOE facilities. Partnership projects do not exceed $50K, which is applied to supporting the effort of DOE facilities personnel working on the project. The small business partner in the project is considered to be an equal partner and will need to match the contribution of DOE to the partnership. However, this matching contribution from the small business partner can be cash or in-kind (i.e., staff, material, equipment, etc.). Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) is one of the participating laboratories in this program. Typically, Sandia will place internal calls once or twice a year for submitting proposals by its technical staff for funding such partnerships. Hence, it would like to encourage small business to establish appropriate technical contacts within Sandia if interested in participating in such partnerships. The Technology Transfer Office at Sandia can help in identifying such a contact if the small business can provide a brief description of the technical problem/project it is interested in collaborating with Sandia and, there is a match to the project with Sandia's technical capabilities. Every effort will be made to identify a technical contact for each submission even though a guarantee cannot be made to do so. By this announcement, Sandia is soliciting expressions of interest as described above from small businesses for collaborative partnerships for funding considerations during FY96(October 1, 1995 - September 30, 1996). The writeup should include information about the company including location, number of employees, product line and annual gross sales ($), a brief description of the problem and the associated area of technical interest and, the company's potential contribution to the potential collaboration. Please do not include any proprietary information in your proposal. Please submit this by close of business July 1, 1995 to -Sandia National Laboratories Attention: Kay Carter P.O. Box 5800 MS 1380, Albuquerque, NM 87185 or FAX (505)271-7867.

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