Can a proposal for the repair or renovation of an existing research facility involve multiple, physically separate locations used for different types of research?
The solicitation is written in terms of a single research facility per proposal. It does not define what exactly a research facility is. The proposals will be reviewed by a group of external reviewers who will first read the solicitation and make their assessments in the context of the wording of the solicitation. If you feel that you can make a strong case in the proposal that the infrastructure in separate locations constitutes a single research facility and you feel that reviewers and program officers are likely to find this convincing, then you are free to try this. You should be careful to avoid creating the perception that your proposal is an attempt to get around the one-proposal-per-institution limit. • We have a building that is not currently used as a research or research training facility. We would like to renovate this and include some research space in the renovated building. Is this suitable for an ARI-R2 proposal? No. The solicitation states that proposals must be for th
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