Michael Lisagor

How to Develop a Winning Small Business Innovation Research (Sbir) Proposal Michael Lisagor

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and its sibling, the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program, are federal initiatives that provide over $2 billion in grants and contracts each year to small and start-up companies to develop new or enhanced products and services based on advanced technologies. About 40% of the SBIR Phase I awards made each year go to firms with no prior SBIR experience. SBIRs are administered by ten federal agencies for the purpose of helping to provide early-stage Research and Development funding to small technology companies (or individual entrepreneurs who form a company). Solicitations are released periodically from each of the agencies and present technical R& D topics that the agency is interested in funding. Companies are invited to compete for funding by submitting proposals answering the technical topic needs of the agency's solicitation. How to Develop a Winning Small Business Innovation Research Proposal (published by GOVPROP.com), provides 60 pages of easy-to-understand guidance and examples for each section of a typical SBIR proposal. It was written by two recognized government acquisition experts. TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTIONSTEP 1: SBIR PROCESS OVERVIEWSTEP 2: WRITING BASICSSTEP 3: IDENTIFICATION & SIGNIFICANCESTEP 4: TECHNICAL OBJECTIVESSTEP 5: WORK PLANSTEP 6: RELEVANT EXPERIENCESTEP 7: COMMERCIALIZATION PLANSTEP 8: KEY PERSONNEL & RESUMESSTEP 9: COST PROPOSALSSTEP 10: PHASE III PROPOSALSSBIR PROPOSAL EVALUATION PROCESS