OpportunityTitle: Partnership Intermediary Agreemetns Concerning Improving Technology Transfer and Non-Traditional Defense Industry Engagement
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Only offerors that meet the criteria under 15 U.S.C. 3715(c) can submit a response to this posting. 15 U.S.C. 3715 (c) defines a Partnership Intermediary as, &quot;For purposes of this section, the term &#8220;partnership intermediary&#8221; means an agency of a State or local government, or a nonprofit entity owned in whole or in part by, chartered by, funded in whole or in part by, or operated in whole or in part by or on behalf of a State or local government, that assists, counsels, advises, evaluates, or otherwise cooperates with small business firms, institutions of higher education as defined in section 1141(a)&#8239;1 of title 20, or educational institutions within the meaning of section 2194 of title 10, that need or can make demonstrably productive use of technology-related assistance from a Federal laboratory, including State programs receiving funds under cooperative agreements entered into under section 5121(b) of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 278l note).&quot;
Description: The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) has an interest in entering into one or multiple Partnership Intermediary Agreement(s) (PIA), under the authority of 15 U.S.C. 3715, with a Partnership Intermediary, as defined in 15 U.S.C. 3715 (c), to provide services for executing the mission of the Air Force CyberWorx to increase the likelihood of success in the conduct of collaborative or joint activities between AF CyberWorx and small business firms and educational institutions to stimulate and promote technology development, and outbound and inbound transfer of technology (T2) between USAFA and academia, industry and federal laboratories. Any resultant PIA will be a non-Federal Acquisition Regulation based agreement made pursuant to the authority of 15 U.S.C. 3715. *No funds of either Party will be in any way committed or obligated for any purposes whatsoever by virtue of responding this RFI or entering into a PIA. SEE ATTACHMENT FOR FULL DETAILS
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GrantorContactText: Erica L Wilson &lt;br/&gt;Grants Officer