SBIR 101
SBIR Eligibility
Posted by Ed Bard onIs Your Organization Eligible for a DoD SBIR/STTR? To be eligible for the SBIR Program your organization must be a Small Business Concern (SBC) and the Principal Investigator (PI), effectively the project manager and/or lead researcher, must be fully employed by your organization and cannot have full-time employment elsewhere. These...
DoD SBIR Accounting System Requirements
Posted by Ed Bard onThe DoD expects a higher level of small business accounting sophistication between Phase I and Phase II. With Phase I SBIR or STTR awards, the Federal government usually expects the small business to have a basic system due to the low dollar amount. For a potentially 10-fold increase in dollars,...
DoD SBIR Process Contract Considerations
Posted by Ed Bard onDoD SBIR Contracts: What do you give up? We started this series of posts with: Is your organization eligible for a DoD SBIR? Registration requirement to participate in DoD SBIR? With this post, we want to discuss what do you give up by receiving a DoD SBIR contract. You have...
SBIR 101
Posted by Ed Bard onWhat is the SBIR Program? The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is a federal government project that promotes domestic small business Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) towards government objectives. The program is highly competitive with an average success rate of around 10%. There are several participating agencies in the SBIR...