Background Information : Since 2016 the Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions (DOE-OTT) issues an annual Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) call for proposals. The TCF provides funding to bridge the technology maturation gap and helps to facilitate federal Research and Development (R&D) investments in technologies with commercial potential. TCF offers an opportunity for private industry to collaborate with DOE’S Laboratories to advance national laboratory-developed energy technologies and Intellectual Property (IP) toward commercialization. You can find more information about TCF at DOE’s website: https://www.energy.gov/technologytransitions/services/technology-commercialization-fund You can find more information about Sandia’s energy capabilities at Sandia’s website: https://energy.sandia.gov/ What are the Benefits of Collaborating with NTESS on a TCF Proposal? 1:1 Cost Share - DOE will match Participant investment up to $1.5 million, to cover NTESS’s portion of the joint R&D project Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA), if project is selected by DOE. A CRADA-facilitates the transfer of technology, capabilities, and knowledge from the laboratory to the CRADA Participant for the benefit of the U.S. economy. A CRADA mutually protects the Parties, provides IP disposition, and allows the development of a Statement of Work to align technical objectives. Why NTESS? NTESS and its collaborators have been awarded 19 TCF projects since the program began in 2016 in 9 different technology areas NTESS Integrated Partnerships Organizations (IPO) team will help NTESS Principal Investigators and their collaborators to develop and submit eligible proposals to DOE’s TCF solicitation. Opportunity Description: NTESS is seeking collaborators to further develop and commercialize NTESS-developed technology through DOE’s TCF opportunity. Selected applicants will be paired with NTESS researchers interested in submitting a proposal to DOE’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 TCF call for proposals. Collaborators and NTESS will jointly develop and submit proposals to the FY21 TCF solicitation. Collaborators can be any non-federal entity, including private companies, state or local governments—or entities created by a state or local government—universities, or non-profit organizations. Collaborators must agree to engage in activities that focus on commercializing or deploying technologies in the marketplace. NTESS invites interested parties to provide a detailed description of relevant background, experience, expertise, and capabilities that could be brought into a collaboration with NTESS. Specific requirements are as follows: Knowledge and skills to bring products or services to market. Demonstrated experience, expertise, or products in at least one of the identified technology areas of interest (see Appendix A). Capable of providing one hundred thousand dollars (U.S.$100,000) to one million five hundred thousand dollars (U.S.$1,500,000) in project funding using non-federal funds during the course of the proposed project, either in-kind or cash contribution. In addition to evaluating the provided information as outlined above, NTESS will evaluate all responses and select prospective parties with which to engage in further discussions based on the following criteria, pursuant to NTESS’s technology transfer mission: How will the respondent deploy the technology for the benefit of the public good? How will the respondent’s deployment of the technology benefit U.S. economic competitiveness? Timeline: Estimated DOE Solicitation Issue Date: September 10th, 2020 Estimated DOE Submission Deadline for Proposal Eligibility Declarations: October 10, 2020 5:00 p.m. (ET) Estimated DOE Submission Deadline for Proposals: December 12, 2020 5:00 p.m. (ET) Estimated DOE Selection Expected Date: Spring 2021 Estimated Awards & CRADA Execution Date: May-December 2021 Primary Point of Contact: Amelia Wagner
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