Business Team RFP For 2007-08 is now Open!
The Centers of Excellence Program provides great opportunities for members of the business and academic communities to work together to help grow Utah's technology Community. There are currently three main opportunities to work with the COEP.
- Participate on a Business Team and work directly with one of the Centers of Excellence - RFP NOW OPEN - July 6, 2007 1:59:01 PM MDT to July 25, 2007 3:00:00 PM MDT!
Once again the Centers of Excellence program is recruiting for high quality individuals to serve as "business team members" for the Centers of Excellence program.
If you are interested in using your experience part time to help create or foster great economic opportunity for Utah based on exciting, already developed technology, we invite you to respond to the 2007-08 Business Team RFP. To download a copy of the RFP document, click here, HOWEVER, this is a reference copy only, you may only respond to the RFP electronically (details below).
To respond please follow the instructions below:
Centers of Excellence RFP Instructions To reduce the "paperwork time", the State has partnered with RFP Depot to provide electronic submission of RFP responses. The system is designed for slightly more complex RFP's than this one, so PLEASE do not be alarmed by the site! However, this site permits electronic submission of responses for this RFP and eliminates the need for physical delivery of responses which is a significant time savings. RFP Depot does require a simple registration in order to respond, and may require as much as 24 hours to activate your registration, so please visit the site and register in advance of the deadline.
To respond to this RFP and be considered for the exciting opportunities through the Centers of Excellence program you will need to do the following:
Visit: https://www.rfpdepot.com/DPX?ac=view&auc=97933 (alternately visit http://www.rfpdepot.com/ select "register" or "login" as appropriate in the upper right hand corner, skip the profile details and go to SEARCH in upper left. Search for " NO8003" Centers of Excellence Commercialization Consultants). If you visit http://purchasing.utah.gov/, select Current Bids, and then find NO8003, you will be immediately linked to the RFP Depot site and should follow the directions above.
Note: The bid opened on July 2 , 2007 4:17:34 PM MDT and will close on Jul 25, 2007 3:00:00 PM MDT
Once you arrive at the page for this RFP, you can read the introductory text, or scroll down to the table at the bottom, which includes links to the pages that facilitate submission. If you select DOWNLOAD, this will save copies to your disk for your reference. To submit to the RFP you must select the live link directly and fill out, and then submit or accept, each of the 6 links.
Some helpful comments:
1. Request for Proposal - PLEASE include an email address and fill out the required fields. Several optional fields do not apply, please ignore these.
2. This is the actual written RFP. It explains the purposes of objectives of the program and provides samples of the questions and information needed.
3. This webform (please fill out the online version, NOT the download version!) is a summary of key qualifications and experience in taking new technologies to market and helping foster new business creation
4. This webform allows you to select areas of interest (4 total) and to highlight relevant experience in those areas. The program seeks market expertise wherever possible as this is demonstrated to accelerate the creation of sound go-to-market strategies.
5. This webform requests a couple of paragraphs as a summary of your relevant early stage experience, requests your consulting rate and identification of your employment and your weekly availability. It also includes instructions on how to upload your resume (see note on "Place Offer Button")
6. The terms and conditions must be accepted (at bottom of page) in order for your submission to be processed.
7. Place Offer Button (bottom center of page) - this takes you to the final submission page. You MUST upload your resume in PDF format and any related attachments on THIS PAGE (see instructions, upper right hand corner). Follow the instructions until you are told your submission is complete. (I suggest requesting a confirmation email).