Funding Opportunity: DOE Technology Transitions Releases Broad Agency Announcement for Partnership Intermediaries to Support the Development, Scaling, Commercialization, and Deployment of DOE Technologies

Funding Opportunity: DOE Technology Transitions Releases Broad Agency Announcement for Partnership Intermediaries to Support the Development, Scaling, Commercialization, and Deployment of DOE Technologies Main Photo

23 Dec 2022


Funding Opportunity, Energy, Technology

White papers are due Jan. 3, 2023. 

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) released a Broad Agency Announcement that it is seeking white papers from prospective Partnership Intermediaries in furtherance of DOE’s goal to establish a Partnership Intermediary Pilot. Through this Pilot, DOE is seeking to broaden the Department’s engagement with new organizations, increase cooperative or joint activities between DOE and small business firms, institutions of higher education, educational institutions, and non-traditional contractors and rapidly develop, scale, commercialize, and deploy technologies relevant to DOE’s mission.

A partnership intermediary (PI) is a state or local government or a nonprofit entity that is owned, funded, chartered, or operated in whole or in part by a state or local government. Agreements with PIs have been successfully used throughout the federal government to perform intermediary services aimed to increase the likelihood of success in the conduct of cooperative or joint activities with small business firms, non-traditional partners, and other industry and educational institutions. 

Through this Pilot, DOE is seeking to expand its capabilities to connect and engage with the broader energy and national security ecosystem and address key gaps facing companies, organizations and communities seeking to engage with DOE and/or develop, scale, commercialize, deploy, and adopt technologies relevant to DOE’s mission. 

Potential PI activities include facilitating and/or managing innovation hubs and/or public-private partnerships; performing technology and market research and scouting; acting as an independent facilitator between DOE programs and projects, DOE National Labs, and external solution providers; and facilitating rapid prototyping, demonstration, deployment, and/or manufacturing, in furtherance of DOE’s mission.

OTT is requesting white papers detailing how PIs might provide services to increase the likelihood of success of cooperative or joint activities between DOE (and DOE National Laboratories and Facilities) and small business firms, institutions of higher education and/or educational institutions, non-traditional partners, and industry. 

White papers are due Jan. 3, 2023.

Read the formal announcement.

OTT’s mission is to expand the public impact of the Department's research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) portfolio to advance the economic, energy, and national security interests of the nation.