Is it a good idea to roll up several renovations of multiple facilities into one proposal?
In general, no. The solicitation is written in terms of a single research facility per proposal while retaining some flexibility about what constitutes a research facility. The intent is that an ARI-R2 award should support the improvement of something that makes sense as a coherent research facility. 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 a proposal that 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 propose an improvement of this facility. However, you should be careful to avoid creating the perception that your proposal is an attempt to get around the one-proposal-per-institution limit.
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