Upcoming Notice of Funding Opportunity for APEX Accelerators Program

This is a special notice to provide information about the upcoming Notice of Funding Opportunity to establish APEX Accelerators in Fiscal Year 2025.

Award recipients must establish and maintain an APEX Accelerator with physical location(s) to serve as a resource for large and small businesses to obtain procurement technical assistance. Procurement technical assistance means professional, specialized assistance provided to clients that enables them to identify potential contractual opportunities and obtain or perform under contracts, innovation and technology grants, and other DoD-funded instruments, with DoD, other federal agencies, state and/or local governments, and with federal, state and/or local government contractors. Clients may include any business pursuing or performing these types of contracts or subcontracts at any tier. You must collaborate with DoD and other federal agencies and work cooperatively with them to accomplish the work under this award.

We expect to award 95 new cost sharing cooperative agreements with 5 one-year period of performance, totaling an estimated $750K to $1.5M; however, we are not obligated to make any awards and reserve the right to revise or cancel this special announcement.

The period of performance will begin around April 1, 2025 and conclude around March 31, 2026 for the first year. Applicants may include subrecipients/ subawards in their application and may propose direct and indirect costs.

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