Evaluating+Grant+Requests

There are many types of grant application forms and evaluation procedures. There are some examples.

**Example of an a form to apply for an Innovation Partnership Grant, with scoring**.



 **Example of grant application evaluation and scoring**.



 US Department of Defense (DoD) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Evaluation Criteria (From __Assessment of the SBIR Program__. See Handbook Section Matching Grant Programs).

 __Evaluation Criteria - Phase I__

 The DoD Components plan to select for award those proposals offering the best value to the government and the nation considering the following factors.

 Where technical evaluations are essentially equal in merit, cost to the government will be considered in determining the successful offeror.
 * 1) The soundness, technical merit, and innovation of the proposed approach and its incremental progress toward topic or subtopic solution.
 * 2) The qualifications of the proposed principal/key investigators, supporting staff, and consultants. Qualifications include not only the ability to perform the research and development but also the ability to commercialize the results.
 * 3) The potential for commercial (government or private sector) application and the benefits expected to accrue from this commercialization

 Technical reviewers will base their conclusions only on information contained in the proposal. It cannot be assumed that reviewers are acquainted with the firm or key individuals or any referenced experiments. Relevant supporting data such as journal articles, literature, including government publications, etc., should be contained or referenced in the proposal and will count toward the 25-page limit.

 __Evaluation Criteria - Phase II__

 The Phase II proposal will be reviewed for overall merit based upon the criteria below.  Where technical evaluations are essentially equal in merit, cost to the government will be considered in determining the successful offeror.
 * 1) The soundness, technical merit, and innovation of the proposed approach and its incremental progress toward topic or subtopic solution.
 * 2) The qualifications of the proposed principal/key investigators, supporting staff, and consultants. Qualifications include not only the ability to perform the research and development but also the ability to commercialize the results.
 * 3) The potential for commercial (government or private sector) application and the benefits expected to accrue from this commercialization.
 * 4) The reasonableness of the proposed costs of the effort to be performed will be examined to determine those proposals that offer the best value to the government.

 Phase II proposal evaluation may include on-site evaluations of the Phase I effort by government personnel.

 SOURCE: Department of Defense SBIR Solicitation, FY2005.