[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 1, Parts 0 to 299]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR295.5]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
 CHAPTER II--NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY, DEPARTMENT 
                               OF COMMERCE
 
PART 295--ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 295.5  Use of pre-proposals in the selection process.

    To reduce proposal preparation costs incurred by proposers and to 
make the selection process more efficient, NIST may use mandatory or 
optional preliminary qualification processes based on pre-proposals. In 
such cases, announcements requesting pre-proposals will be published as 
indicated in Sec. 295.7, and will seek abbreviated proposals (pre-
proposals) that address both of the selection criteria, but in 
considerably less detail than full proposals. The Program will review 
the pre-proposals in accordance with the selection criteria and provide 
written feedback to the proposers to determine whether the proposed 
projects appear sufficiently promising to warrant further development 
into full proposals. Proposals are neither ``accepted'' or ``rejected'' 
at the pre-proposal stage. When the full proposals are received in 
response to the notice of availability of funds described in Sec. 295.7, 
the review and selection process will occur as described in Sec. 295.4.

[63 FR 64414, Nov. 20, 1998]