SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- SPONSORSHIP OF THE 2016 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION (ISTE) CONFERENCE
- Notice Date
- 2/5/2016
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 813920
— Professional Organizations
- Contracting Office
- National Science Foundation, Division of Acquisition and Cooperative Support, DACS, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Room475, Arlington, Virginia, 22230
- ZIP Code
- 22230
- Solicitation Number
- DACS16Q1027
- Archive Date
- 2/27/2016
- Point of Contact
- Jannele Gosey, Phone: (703) 292-4445
- E-Mail Address
-
jgosey@nsf.gov
(jgosey@nsf.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) intends serve as a sponsor of the start-up pavilion and pitch fest event at the International Society for Technology in Education's 2016 Conference (ISTE 2016) on June 26 - June 29, 2016 in Denver, CO. ISTE 2016 is the premier venue for showcasing education tech products and services to a highly targeted audience of tech-savvy educators and education leaders. Its expansive expo hall puts innovative ideas on full display before more than 14,000 educators, 5,000 industry education tech representatives, venture capitalists, government officials and other leaders in the education market. NSF funds companies that develop technologies for reaching and learning. It is essential that our current grantees keep their finger on the pulse of technology by participating and for educators and leaning professional and help contribute to evolving technological advances by forming new companies and learning about the NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that can catalyze these new advances. The ISTE Conference and Expo is the largest and most comprehensive educational tech conference in the world. NSF's participation at the ISTE 2016 ED Tech Start-up Pitch Fest pavilion can help enable this to happen. ISTE will be presenting an Ed Tech Start-up Pitch Fest in 2016. The Pitch Fest will feature rapid-fire presentations by selected start-up companies taking part in two preliminary rounds to earn the right to advance to the Pitch Fest finals. Under this order, NSF will receive, among other benefits: demonstration pods for each of the nine (9) NSF Phase I grantees and one (1) for NSF, which includes free power and hardwire internet access in the pavilion. The proposed contract action is for services for which the government intends to sponsor with only one source under the authority of FAR 13.106. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. This synopsis is for information purposes only.
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- Record
- SN04012556-W 20160207/160205234919-934600541a6f64810dbb9b3c6af38d3e (fbodaily.com)
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