Title
Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS)
Agencies
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Description
The national research cyberinfrastructure (CI) ecosystem is essential to computational- and data-intensive research across all of 21st-century
science and engineering (S&E), driven by rapid advances in a wide range of technologies; increasing volumes of highly heterogeneous data;
and escalating demand by the research community. Research CI is a key catalyst for discovery and innovation and plays a critical role in
ensuring US leadership in S&E, economic competitiveness, and national security, consistent with NSF's mission. NSF, through the Office of
Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC), has published a vision that calls for the broad availability and innovative use of an agile, integrated,
robust, trustworthy and sustainable CI ecosystem that can drive new thinking and transformative discoveries in all areas of S&E research and
education. In support of this vision, NSF is releasing two solicitations in parallel: this solicitation, Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination
Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS), and Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support - Coordination
Office (ACCESS-ACO). This solicitation (ACCESS) aims to establish a suite of CI coordination services - meant to support a broad and
diverse set of requirements, users, and usage modes from all areas of S&E research and education - and calls for proposals for five
independently-managed yet tightly-cooperative service tracks (see Figure 1). The second solicitation (ACCESS-ACO) focuses on the creation
of a coordination office to support the collective and coordinated operation of the ACCESS service tracks.
More Information
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21555/nsf21555.pdf
Submission Limits
Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization: 1
An organization may submit only one proposal as a lead. An organization may also be a subawardee on proposals to tracks other than the
track to which it has submitted a proposal as the lead organization.
Collaborative projects may only be submitted as a single proposal in which a single award is being requested (PAPPG Chapter II.D.3.a). The
involvement of partner organizations should be supported through subawards administered by the submitting organization.
These eligibility constraints will be strictly enforced in order to treat everyone fairly and consistently. In the event that an organization
exceeds this limit, the proposals received within the limit will be accepted based on the earliest date and time of proposal submission. No
exceptions will be made.
Limit on Number of Proposals per PI or Co-PI: 1
An individual may be the PI on no more than one proposal that responds to this solicitation. An individual may also serve as a co-PI or senior
personnel on proposals to tracks other than the track to which they have submitted a proposal as the PI.
These eligibility constraints will be strictly enforced in order to treat everyone fairly and consistently. In the event that an individual
exceeds these limits, the proposals received within the limit will be accepted based on the earliest date and time of proposal submission. No exceptions will be made.
Deadlines
| Internal Notice of Intent |
May 7, 2021 |
| Notification of Internal Competition |
May 8, 2021 |
| Internal Pre-proposal |
May 17, 2021 |
| Results of Internal Competition |
May 24, 2021 |
| Agency Notice of Intent/Pre-proposal |
N/A |
| Agency Proposal |
Jun 16, 2021
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Office of the Vice President for Research
