Helping Innovative Small Businesses in Pennsylvania Win Federal Funding.

The Innovation Partnership (IPart) is a statewide consortium of economic development, business assistance, and higher education organizations, providing early-stage technology companies with free proposal writing assistance, training, and financial assistance. The goal: Help Pennsylvania-based clients secure federal funding opportunities – Specifically, SBIR/STTR.

20 Years of Proven Results

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Sbir Proposals Submitted

  • Sbir
  • Awards
  • Received
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Sbir Award Value to Date

$0 Million

  • Phase I:$25M
  • Phase II:$29M
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Travel & Training Awards
IPart Awards to Clients (MG/MV/FMA)
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Totalling

$0

Submission

Win

Rate

0%

(Compared to National Avarage of between 14% - 17%)

The Power of Partnership

Success Stories

IPart is a tremendous asset to that entrepreneur who needs not only proposal funding but critical feedback for devising a winning SBIR proposal!

- Jorgen Penderson, RE 2 Robotics

The SBIR process is very challenging. IPart assistance can be invaluable to a vast majority of tech companies looking to submit well-prepared proposals for SBIR/STTR funding.

- Liz Brensinger, Green Heron Tools

It’s great that Pennsylvania has a program like the Innovation Partnership. It helps technology companies with the SBIR process and win these very important grant awards to move their companies forward.

- Bo Liang, Adesso Advanced Materials Inc.

The programs, assistance and advice the IPart provides helped us significantly in our proposal improvement and to ultimately win a Phase I STTR from the NSF.

- Kamrun Nahar, Impulse Technology

IPart’s peer review and funding for grant-writing assistance were extremely helpful in strengthening our federal submission and winning the award.

Jamin Steffen, Hepron Molecular Lab, Inc.

IPart’s pre-review technical feedback, demand for early proposal preparation, and Travel & Training funding greatly benefitted our company’s ability to secure the SBIR grant funding.

-Surbhi Jain, JBS Science Inc.

The IPart’s $3,000 MicroVoucher for grant-writing assistance is very helpful for the technology companies applying for these federal grants – while it seems like a small amount – we can use all of the help we can get.

Matt Handle, Skyran Biologics, Inc.

I think the IPART program is a vital component of the startup ecosystem in the Pittsburgh area. It provides an opportunity for non-academics and academics with limited grant writing experience to construct competitive federal grants to secure seed funding.

- Sanna Gaspard, Rubitection

Solicitations dates

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Agency/ProgramRelease DateOpen DateClose DateIPart Deadline
Pre-Proposal (PPA) Due
Fiscal Year 2025 ED/IES SBIR Solicitation
for PhIA, PhIB, & Direct to PhII
11/8/2411/8/241/8/25 by 11am ESTPPA FINAL Due
Wed 12/4/24
Draft PPA Due
Week of 11/18/24
SBIR PhI Opportunity 2025-NIST-SBIR-0110/29/2410/29/2412/27/24PPA FINAL Due
Tues 11/25/24
Draft PPA Due
Week of 11/11/24
DOE SBIR & STTR Phase 1, Release 2
PhI Release 2 Topics
Topics Issued 11/12/24
FOA Release 12/16/24
12/16/24
LOI Due 1/7/25
2/26/25PPA FINAL Due
Wed 1/29/25
Draft PPA Due
Week of 1/13/25
National Science Foundation (NSF)
(Project Pitch Required)
SBIR&STTR PhI 2024 Solicitation - nsf24-579
SBIR&STTR PhII 2024 Solicitation - nsf24-580
SBIR&STTR FastTrack Pilot 2024 Solicitation - nsf24-582


NSF SBIR/STTR Program Page
NSF Events
Online Project Pitch Form

*PHI Max Award Amt. $305k,
PHII Max Award Amt. $1.25m
5/30/245/30/243/5/25
7/2/25
11/5/25
all due by 5pm
PPA FINAL
Due: Wed 2/5/25
Wed 6/4/25
Wed 10/8/25

PPA Draft Due
Week of 1/20/25
5/19/25
9/22/25
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Omnibus FOAs
Notice of Change to Award
Budget NOT-OD-25-013
7/3/247/3/241/6/25
4/7/25
PPA FINAL Due:
Mon 12/2/24
Mon 3/10/25


PPA 1st Draft
Due Week of:
11/18/24 & 3/24/25

USDA SBIR & STTR PHI Release CFDA #10.212
*PHI Max Award Amt. $181,500, Min Award Amt. $125,000
7/2/247/2/249/17/24
CLOSED
8/20/24
CLOSED
DOD ARMY SBIR 2024.4 Release 207/9/24
*Topics Pre-Release
8/1/249/4/24
CLOSED
Tues 8/7/24
CLOSED
EPA SBIR PHI Release #68HERC23R0249
6/26/246/26/248/21/24
CLOSED
Wed, 7/24/24
Draft PPA Due
Week of 7/8/24
Army XtechScalable AI Direct to Phase II Open Topic
* Anticipated
7/18/247/18/248/20/24
CLOSED
Tues 7/23/24
Draft PPA Due
Week of 7/18/24
DOT SBIR FY2025 Complete Streets AI Initiative:
Generating, Integrating, and Activating Data for Mobility


DOT SBIR FAQs
3/11/24
3/11/245/10/24
CLOSED
Fri 4/12/24
CLOSED
Air Force (AF) SBIR CSO X24.64/24/244/24/245/23/24
CLOSED
Wed 5/15/24
Draft PPA Due
Week of 5/6/24
Dept. Education FY 2024 Direct to PhII
1/5/241/5/244/5/24
CLOSED
Fri 3/8/24
Draft PPA Due
Week of 2/19/24
NASA FY 2024 SBIR & STTR
Pre-Solicitation
1/9/241/9/243/11/24
CLOSED
Mon 2/12/24
Draft PPA Due
Week of 1/29/24
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)24.1 SBIR Pre-Release

Pre-Release 24.1 Webinar 12/5/23 @2pm ET
11/8/23
Pre-Release

12/15/231/17/24
CLOSED
Wed 12/20/23
Draft PPA Due
Week of 12/4/23
NIH SPECIAL SOLICITATIONS

New – Direct Phase II will be added as an allowable
Application Type either by Notice or in the solicitation in
Part II Section II if SBIR Direct Phase II will be accepted.

See the current list of Notices that have added Direct
Phase II to SBIR solicitations:http://bit.ly/2P0lm1H
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