U.S. Small Business Administration Seeks RFQs for competitive contracts
Advocacy is seeking small business researchers, or researchers who want to become small businesses, to perform economic research via a request for quotations (RFQ).
Nine topics are proposed. These RFQs are for competitive contracts, not research grants.
The deadline for proposals is June 22, 2007.
You can view topics Advocacy has funded in the past online here.
The proposal solicitations and synopses are listed in FedBizOpps.
If this link is not active, go to www.fedbizopps.gov, click on “advancedsearch,” scroll down to “search byagency,” and select “Small Business Administration.”
The RFQs seek research proposals on:
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• Small business tax credits,
• Small business issues surrounding U.S. military reservists (Restricted to service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses).
• Small business patents by industry and firm size,
• Other small business research topics using large databases,
• Rural small business,
• Graduate student research,
• The importance of angel investment in financing the growth of entrepreneurial ventures,
• Low-wage worker characteristics by firm size and industry, and
• Office of Advocacy research academic citation study.
Proposals cannot be submitted via fax or email.
If you have further questions or are unfamiliar with the government contracting process, please view frequently asked questions from the
SBA’s Office of Government Contracting.
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