U.S. Department of Transportation
Office of the Secretary
of Transportation
DTRT57-05-R-SBIR
DOT Program Solicitation for
Small
Business Innovation Research
Proposal Checklist (Appendix D)
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This is a CHECKLIST OF REQUIREMENTS for your proposal. Please review the checklist carefully to assure that your proposal meets the DOT SBIR requirements. Failure to meet these requirements may result in your proposal being returned without consideration. (See Sections III and IV.C of this Solicitation). Do not include this checklist with your proposal.
____The proposal reflects the fact that for Phase I a minimum of two-thirds (and for Phase II a minimum of one-half) of the research and/or analytical effort will be performed by the proposing firm as required (see Sections V.H.1 and V.H.2) and the primary employment of the principal investigator (for both Phase I and Phase II) must be with the small business firm at the time of award and during the conduct of the proposed research as required (see Section I.C).
____The proposal is 25 PAGES OR LESS in length. This limitation does not apply to the additional information required by Section III.H.
____The proposal is limited to only ONE of the research topics in Section VIII.
____The proposal budget may be up to $100,000 unless otherwise indicated and duration does not exceed six months.
____The technical abstract contains no proprietary information, does not exceed 200 words, and is limited to the space provided on the Project Summary sheet (Appendix B).
____The proposal contains only pages of 8 1/2" x 11" size.
____The proposal contains no type smaller than 10 point font size.
____The COVER SHEET (Appendix A) has been completed and is PAGE 1 of the proposal.
____The PROJECT SUMMARY (Appendix B) has been completed and is PAGE 2 of the proposal.
____The TECHNICAL CONTENT of the proposal begins on PAGE 3 and includes the items identified in SECTION III.D of the Solicitation.
____The Contract Pricing Proposal (Appendix C) has been included as the last section of the proposal.
____The acknowledgement of proposal receipt card on the last page of the solicitation should be filled out and included with the proposal package.
____An original and four copies of the proposal are submitted.
____The additional information on prior Phase II awards, if required, in accordance with Section III.H.
____The proposal must be postmarked (or delivered to the DOT SBIR Program Office) no later than May 16, 2005 as required (see Section VI.A). If submitted electronically, the proposal must be received by May 16, 2005, as well.
