The language, tucked into the 2012 appropriations bill for NSF and several other agencies, urged that the selection be made "expeditiously and utilize a fully competitive process, with a solicitation issued no later than the end of calendar year 2011 and a result announced no later than July 31 , 2012.
In response to a solicitation issued by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in March, various contracting firms began proposing bids for the 1,000-mile 1,000-mileon wall project.
Georgeson, a proxy solicitation firm, issued a report to clients this week advising that they plan for what they will do if no one wins a director's election.
In April 2001, USIP issued solicitations for a design and twenty-six architectsubmitteded proposals.
A research solicitation that IRS issued in the fall of 2011 attracted 51 proposals, according to Barry Johnson, head of the special studies branch of the Statistics of Income division.
NuStart, says further on its website, that it has been "formed to respond to a Department of Energy issued solicitation to demonstrate the NRC's COL [Construction and Operating License] process".
Between 2009 and 2014, NIJ issued 23 solicitations that resulted in 269 funded research projects [ 36].
Among the new SMRs, US Department of Energy (DOE) has begun to support SMR activities in the US in the recent years by issuing solicitations, such as "Financial Assistance Funding Opportunity Announcement Cost-Shareded Develofment of Innovative Small Modular Reactor Designs".
A solicitation for this program was issued, pre-proposals were reviewed, and several applicants were selected to submit follow-on full proposals.
In recent months DHS issued human resource IT solicitations requiring solutions be hosted only on DHS servers.
