Phase III Sole Source Small Business Innovation Research Contracting Methodology
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The SBIR/STTR programs employ a three phase process, uniform throughout the Federal Government, of soliciting proposals and awarding Funding Agreements for R/R&D, production, services, or any combination, to meet stated agency needs or missions. Agencies must issue Phase I or II SBIR/STTR awards pursuant to competitive and merit based selection procedures. Phase III awards may be sole sourced, and does not require sequential performance. For example, a sole source Phase III contract can be awarded anytime during the performance of a Phase I contract or grant.
The competitions for SBIR/STTR Phase I and/or Phase II awards satisfy any competition requirement of the Armed Services Procurement Act, the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act, and the Competition in Contracting Act.
The Three Phase SBIR Process
Phase l ($50k - $256k)
Company must have less than 500 employees
Small business must perform 2/3 of research
Funds feasibility research & MVP
Immediately eligible for Phase III sole source contracts
Phase II ($500k - $1.9M)
Company must have less than 500 employees
Small business must perform 1/2 of research
Funds research & production proof of concept
Immediately eligible for Phase III sole source contracts
Phase III (Sole Source)
Size standards do not apply
No dollar limit or scope of contracts
Small business does not have to do 51% of work
For commercialization of products, research, or services
Any requirement that derives from, extends, or logically concludes Phase I or II work
Must be a previous Phase I or II awardee
The objective of Phase III sole source awards is for the small business to pursue commercialization objectives resulting from the Phase I/II R/R&D activities. Phase III sole source may involve products, services, research, production or any combination thereof, so long as the requirement arises from, completes, or extends work done previously on a Phase I or II project. The government program office makes the determination of whether the requirement matches the prior SBIR/STTR work.
Advantages of an SBIR Phase III sole source:
- No limits on the number of awards
- No limits on the scope (can be products, services, production, and/or research)
- No limits on the type of funding agreement
- No Limits on time lapse between Phase I, II or III
- No limits on the dollar value or duration
The right to receive sole-source awards is a real benefit to the government as well. The sole-source award avoids the arduous process the government must go through to compete a requirement – planning the procurement, developing the solicitation, soliciting proposals and evaluating them, sending out questions to offerors, making an award decision and then having it protested and held up in litigation. The entire process can take years. A sole-source award can be made in a matter of weeks or even days. The SBA SBIR/STTR Policy Directive even dictates the justification that an agency can and must use to justify the sole-source award. Predictably, that justification reads that the new award must derive from, extend, or complete prior SBIR effort and be funded with non- SBIR funds. That’s all that is required. Nothing could be easier. Fast, quick, and easy–that is what an SBIR sole-source award represents to the government.
Phase III sole source awards to Forward Edge-AI are
appropriate for the following markets:
Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Health and Bioinformatics, and Business Transformation
- 517410
- 541330
- 541511
- 541512
- 541690
- 517112
- 334413
- 927110
- 334418
- 334220
- Satellite Telecommunications
- Engineering Services
- Custom Computer Programming
- Computer System Design Services
- Scientific & Technical Consulting
- Wireless Telecommunications
- Semiconductor Manufacturing
- Space Research and Technology
- Printed Circuit Assembly
- Radio Equipment Manufacturing
- UEI Number : KRCZZNY5WPZ8
- DUNS Number : 117079759
- CAGE Code : 8bxh2
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Innovation In Phase 3 (IP3)
Coming Soon
GSA is establishing an IDIQ/MAC contract vehicle to bring SBIR/STTR innovations to bring new technologies to the government. Even with these efforts, the SBIR Phase III remains underserved by the greater Government community. Currently, there is no common contract vehicle or methodology to effectively bring SBIR III contractors to the governmentwide acquisition community in an efficient manner.
Contract Vehicles
Forward Edge-AI accepts commercial purchase orders.
As a federal agency, you can access Forward Edge-AI’s products and services through a wide range of easy-to-use government contract vehicles. These include Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs), Basic Ordering Agreements (BOAs), and IDIQ-MAC contracts.
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