How To Register For Sbir

FastLane guide

two. Registrations

Do y'all have the required registrations?

Arrangement for Award Management (SAM)

Please allow sufficient time for a new SAM registration to exist processed and active. New SAM registrations can take upwards to two weeks to become agile. Sometimes SAM registrations can have longer if the registration data provided in SAM is incomplete or authentic.

NOTE: Once your new SAM registration is active, it takes up to two business days for NSF to receive and process your SAM information. New organizations cannot annals with NSF until the organization's active SAM registration information is processed past NSF.

The SAM registration data must exist validated with exterior parties earlier the registration can be activated. If the registration fails the Internal Revenue Service Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) validation or Commercial and Government Entity (Cage) validation with the Department of Defence's Defense Logistics Agency, the SAM registration could take significantly longer to become active.

When entering the arrangement'due south Tin can in SAM, ensure that the organization name matches the taxpayer name associated with your Tin. A mismatch of information can consequence in significant SAM registration activation delays.

For SBIR applicants with subawardees and for all STTR applicants, the subawardee should be registered in SAM. If the sub awardee system is NOT registered in SAM, the chief investigator (PI) or a representative at the subawardee arrangement can call the Inquiry.gov or FastLane Assistance Desk-bound and NSF will manually register them as an institution in the NSF system to facilitate timely proposal submission.
Pocket-size Concern Administration (SBA) Company Registry

You lot demand to register with the SBIR Company Registry (operated past the Pocket-size Business Assistants). Postal service-registration, you'll receive a Business Concern Control ID (SBC ID), which you'll need to include in your FastLane awarding.
NSF Research.gov

Organizations new to NSF must register via the account management organization in Inquiry.gov.

For additional information and step-past-step instructions, please come across the "Annals a New Organization" video tutorial and Account Management Guide section. If the video tutorial does not open, please try viewing it using another browser.

The Business relationship Management Guide, Oftentimes Asked Questions (FAQs), and multiple video tutorials are available on the Inquiry.gov Almost Business relationship Management folio.

NSF recommends that the Principal Investigator (PI) too register as an "Authorized Organizational Representative – AOR" for the organization. The PI creates and uploads all proposal components to FastLane, and the AOR formally submits the proposal to NSF. But PIs with AOR privileges tin can submit the proposal. The AOR role is NEVER assigned to any person past default.

Y'all can request the AOR part via the "Add a New Role" page in Inquiry.gov. Hither'due south how:
- Sign in to Research.gov and select the "My Profile" link located at the top right of the screen.
- To add together the AOR role, select the "Add Organizational Role" push and choose the AOR part. Complete the part asking sorcerer four-stride process. Please run across the Account Management Guide "Add a New Role" department for boosted information and step-by-footstep instructions with associated screenshots.

Register a New Organization

Organizations must be registered with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to submit proposals using NSF'due south systems. Earlier a new organization can annals with NSF, it must first exist registered in the System for Accolade Direction (SAM - https://www.sam.gov Notation that completion of the SAM registration procedure may take upward to one month.

Please Note: Constructive February 28, 2022, NSF volition transition from DUNS numbers to the new System for Award Management (SAM) Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) in its systems. Run across the NSF Informational Folio for more details. However, a DUNS number is even so required to annals in SAM.gov and to receive a SAM.gov-issued UEI until Apr iv, 2022.

Follow the step-past-footstep process beneath to annals a new system in Research.gov.

How do I register a new organization with NSF?

Open Research.gov
Click "Sign In" located at the elevation right of the screen.
Enter your NSF ID and countersign and click "Sign In."
Click "My Contour" located at the peak right of the screen.
Click "Add New Role" from the left navigation bar.
Click "Add Organizational Part" located in the "Add together and Manage Organizations" box.
- Note: If an organization is new to NSF, you must start the process by setting yourself up as the Administrator for the new organization. You must accept an NSF business relationship to kickoff this procedure. The organization will automatically detect that the organisation is new and will walk you through setting upwards the organization and Administrator role.

New Organization

If your organization is not already registered with NSF, a message will display to confirm that the organization is non found in NSF systems and you will exist able to annals the system and get the offset Administrator.
Enter your arrangement is not already registered with NSF, a message volition display to ostend that the organization is non found in NSF systems and yous will be able to register the organization and become the first Administrator

Add new role

Helpful Tip: If a new system is registered with NSF without an Administrator, the showtime user to request a role will become the organization'south first Administrator.

Enter your contact data for the Administrator role, add your organisation's information, and and then click "Side by side." (Figure 3)
Notice the "Administrator" role is pre-selected. Click "Next." (Figure 4)
Review your organisation'southward information for accurateness and click "Submit." (Figure 5)
The request to annals your arrangement with NSF will exist forwarded via electronic mail to your organization'southward SAM points of contact for their information only. The SAM points of contact will non demand to approve the request. (Figure 6)

Add information

Choose roles

Review

Confirmation

Helpful Tip: One time an arrangement is registered with NSF, whatsoever updates to organizational information must be fabricated by an organizational Administrator in the FastLane Inquiry Administration module.

Helpful tip

It is recommended that the Primary Investigator also register equally an "Authorized Organizational Representative – AOR" for the organization. The PI creates and uploads all proposal components to FastLane and the AOR formally submits the proposal to NSF. But PIs with AOR privileges can submit the proposal. Failing to annals equally an AOR is non a valid excuse for missing the solicitation deadline.

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