When you submitted your proposal, you should have received a series of 5 separate e-mails from DOE. Once the 5th e-mail was received, and you followed the instructions in the e-mail, you should have received a notification of receipt within 10 days of November 20th. If not, contact the Program office @ 301-903-1414.

Notification of Awards will be made mid-late April 2009.

anyone has received DOE sbir 2009 notification of award yet ?

As of today, May 4, we did not receive any notification yet on our proposals for 2009sbir-DOE solication. Is that normal ? It is supposed to be mid-late April according to the solicitation. Thanks,

We not heard anything yet on our proposal. When we submitted, I was told that we would be notified either way some time in April.

I have yet to hear any news about my DOE-SBIR submission. Is it look down upon to contact the program directors Carl Hebron and/or Larry James?

Thanks,

Called DOE-SBIR office, they said they are still working on it. But its solication say mid-late April.

out-of-job scientists are eager to learn the status of the proposals.

Ditto above comments on not hearing anything so far on our submissions. BTW: How do people use the http://www.e-center.doe.gov web site after they have submitted? Other than acknowledging proposal receipt there are so many options that seem useless?

yes, the e-center just show "received", nothing else. I think they can do a better job by showing the status of the proposal.

Waiting for the DOE proposal status, so we can decide what to do with our proposal.

Since the solicitiation states "DOE anticipates notifiying applicants selected for Phase I award by mid-to-late April 2009 and making awards by mid-to late June 2009", they have some wiggle room when they use the word "anticipates" and not a hard date.

You are right. This year may be too many proposals to be processed.

Last year's selection was posted on doe-sbir's web on 04/29/08 — The FY 2008 SBIR/STTR Phase I evaluations have been completed and a listing of the selected projects is posted at:

If you Google "DOE SBIR awards" you will come to a PowerPoint presentation by the SBIR folks that says that awards will be made in May – which, of course, contradicts the original statement but is probably closer to reality. My bet is on June. Our gub'mint does not move quickly in the first place, and I think there was a large number of applications.

Has any one received any e-mail for DOE Phase I award. We got one e-mail on Friday that one proposal is on waiting list.

just checked email, nothing yet on our two proposals.

on waiting list ? is that good news or bad news.

Any news if they will announce it Today

We got two "no thank you's" and we are still waiting to hear on two

After 6 months waiting, today, we received two "….unfortunately…" But the email does not has the word "thank you" in it.

Anybody else received notification today ? Please share. thanks,

I think they send out the" number of applications vs number of awards statistic and unfortunately.. " letter according to the topic number in chronological order. Already received two thanks-but-no-thanks, but did receive indirectly from another DOE office of success of a third proposal. Not sure if that is the norm.

It is "….. unfortunately, your proposal is not among those selected".

Already emailed DOE SBIR/STTR and requested for evaluator's comments on our two unselected proposals.

Anyone else received DOE's SBIR/STTR notification today ? Just wonder if all the notifications sent out by DOE today are for unselected proposals. Thanks,

If you receive or do not receive an award, be sure to get a copy of the reviewers' comments . With DOE, unsuccessful applicants may request written evaluator comments up to 30 days after the public announcement of the final
selections.

we requested for reviewer's comments yesterday immediately after receiving DOE' email notification of not being selected.

Just wondering if we made our request too early ? Do we need to do the request again upon the DOE SBIR/STTR 's final selection being officially posted on DOE's website.

Thanks,

Just to add to Connie's note: I went through the rejection and evaluation process in previous year through the DoD SBIR and I must say the evaluator was very clear in explaining why my proposal was not considered. Apart from a neat idea, teaming and collaboration seem to be more important tipping points in a proposal.

So do we assume no news is good news or just no news.

Did any letters go out today?

I heard today (5/28), and got some good news. Apparently it was pretty steep competition this year. Good luck to everyone else!

Just curious. Why DOE does not send out the reviewer's comments at the same time as the non-selection notification, however, some other agencies do (i.e. NSF, DOD, USDA, EPA etc) . DOE says it will take 8 weeks to receive the comments. This make us wonder if, at the very beginning, they did not at all review the proposal or just pick a few for review. Upon receipt the requests from unsuccessul applicants, they then go back and quickly evaluate it with comments such as "great idea, no team, no …., unfortuately…".

Since new to DOE SBIR/STTR, just curious about their evaluation procedures. Anybody know the answer ? Thanks,

I just receved my award letter, and it came with reviewer notes. It seems like they should send the notes with the non-selects as well. However, from previous experience, I know they don't.

Both of our SBIR's have just been awarded.

Has anyone received good news or bad news yesterday or today? I got one "no" on tuesday and have one still pending.

any award news today?

Any news if they will announce final decision today?

any news?

We have not heard of DOE-SBIR-2009-Phase II award communication as of 6/12/09. Did any one heard please?

Did anyone receive DOE sbir 2009 Phase II notification of award yet ?

Has anybody received DOE-SBIR-2009-Phase II award intimation?
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