Notice Number: NOT-AG-18-042
Key Dates
Release Date: November 8, 2018
PAR-18-588
Issued by
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Purpose
Section 5106 of the SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011 authorized that NIH may issue a Phase II award to a small business concern that did not receive a Phase I award for that research/research & development'. This 'phase flexibility' is called a Direct-to-Phase II SBIR award. The original authority for this provision had expired on 9/30/2017. Recent legislation P.L. 115-232 re-instated this SBIR Direct Phase II provision through Fiscal Year 2022.
Note: The SBIR Direct-to-Phase II (DPII) award authority is not available for the STTR program.
The legislative reauthorization of the DPII Program empowers NIH to relaunch the SBIR DPII Program. Prior NIH SBIR/STTR application forms required NIH to issue stand-alone DPII funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). However, NIH's transition earlier this year to FORMS-E allows NIH to invite and track DPII applications through the FORMS-E, as there is a check-box on the SBIR/STTR Information Form (part of FORMS-E) for the DPII Program.
Consequently, NIH and NIA do not need to issue stand-alone SBIR DPII FOAs but can offer the DPII Program as an allowable Application Type on any SBIR FOA.
NIA is therefore amending PAR-18-588, Assistive Technology for Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias and Their Caregivers (R43/R44 Clinical Trial Optional), to allow for the submission of Direct-to-Phase II applications.
The following sections of PAR-18-588 are changed as follows:
Part 2, Section II. Award Information
Currently reads:
Application Types Allowed
New (Phase I, Fast-Track)
Resubmission (all phases)
Revision
The OER Glossary and the SF424 (R&R) SBIR/STTR Application Guide provide details on these application types.
Award Budget
Budgets up to $500,000 total costs per year for Phase I and up to $1,000,000 total costs per year for Phase II may be requested.
Modified to:
Application Types Allowed
New (Phase I, Fast-Track)
New (Phase II SBIR Direct Phase II)
Resubmission (all phases)
Revision
The OER Glossary and the SF424 (R&R) SBIR/STTR Application Guide provide details on these application types.
Award Budget
Phase I budgets up to $500,000 in total costs per year and Phase II and Direct-to-Phase-II budgets up to $2,500,000 in total costs may be requested.
All other aspects of this FOA remain unchanged.
Inquiries
Please direct all inquiries to:
Michael-David A.R.R. Kerns, M.M., M.S. Ph.D.
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Telephone: 301-402-7713
Email: kernsmd@mail.nih.gov
and Human Services (HHS)
