CFDA#
93.576
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Funder Type
Federal Government
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IT Classification
B - Readily funds technology as part of an award
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Authority
U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration
Summary
The Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership (IMCP) is a new government-wide initiative that will help communities cultivate an environment for businesses to create well-paying manufacturing jobs in regions across the country and thereby accelerate the resurgence of manufacturing. The IMCP is designed to reward communities that demonstrate best practices in attracting and expanding manufacturing by bringing together key local stakeholders and using long-term planning that integrates targeted investments across a community's industrial ecosystem to create broad-based prosperity. Research has shown that vibrant ecosystems may create a virtuous cycle of development for a key technology or supply chain through integrated investments and relationships among the following elements:
- Workforce and training;
- Supplier network;
- Research and innovation;
- Infrastructure/site development;
- Trade and international investment; and
- Operational improvement and capital access.
Interactions within and between these elements create “public goods,” or assets upon which many firms can draw and that are fundamental in creating an advantage for industry but are not adequately provided by the private sector. Thus, well-designed public investment is a key part of developing a self-sustaining ecosystem that attracts private investment from new and existing manufacturers and leads to broad-based prosperity.
Designation as an IMCP manufacturing community (each a Manufacturing Community, and collectively the Manufacturing Communities) will be given to communities with the best strategies for designing and making such investments in public goods. IMCP Participating Agencies will coordinate with each other to leverage complementary activities while also preventing duplication of efforts. Manufacturing Communities will receive preferential consideration for other Federal programs identified by IMCP Participating Agencies consistent with each program's eligibility requirements and evaluation criteria (see Section II. of this notice). Additionally, a Federal point of contact (POC) will be made available to help the winning community access Federal funds and resources.
History of Funding
None available.
Additional Information
Applicants may define their regional boundaries of their consortium, though all such regions should have a strong existing manufacturing base. In general, an applicant's region should be large enough to contain critical elements of the key technologies or supply chains (KTS) prioritized by the applicant, but small enough to enable close collaboration (e.g. generally, larger than a city but smaller than a state). The proposed manufacturing community should provide evidence that their community ranks in the top third in the nation for their key manufacturing technology or supply chain by either: Location quotient for employment in the KTS, or location quotient for firms in the KTS.
The selected manufacturing communities will receive:
- Preferential consideration in federal competitions and assistance across 10 agencies, totaling $1.3 billion.
- A dedicated federal liaison at each of these agencies that will help the designated manufacturing communities navigate available federal resources
- Recognition on a government website, accessible to prospective private foreign and domestic investors, looking for information on communities’ competitive attributes.
- Subject to funding availability, challenge grants may become available to some awardees from the pool of designated manufacturing communities from EDA and other agencies.
Eligibility Details
Proposals for designation as a Manufacturing Community must be submitted on behalf of the region by a consortium that includes one or more of the eligible organizations discussed in this section. The consortium must designate one of these eligible organizations as lead applicant and one member of that organization to be the primary point of contact for the consortium. Applicants are strongly encouraged to include other key stakeholders, including but not limited to private sector partners, higher education institutions, government entities, economic development and other community and labor groups, financial institutions and utilities. All members of the consortium must submit letters of commitment or sign a Memorandum of Understanding documenting their contributions to the partnership. Additionally, at a minimum, the applicant must have letters of support from a higher education institution, a private sector partner, and some government entity if not already part of the consortium. Applicants should demonstrate a significant level of regional cooperation in their proposal because only one designation will be made in a particular region.
Eligible lead applicants include a(n):
1. District Organization;
2. Indian Tribe or a consortium of Indian Tribes;
3. State, county, city, or other political subdivision of a State, including a special purpose unit of a State or local government engaged in economic or infrastructure development activities, or a consortium of political subdivisions;
4. Institution of higher education or a consortium of higher education institutions; or
5. Public or private non-profit organization or association acting in cooperation with officials of a political subdivision of a State.
Deadline Details
The deadline for receipt of applications was extended until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on April 14, 2014.
Award Details
Preferential consideration in federal competitions and assistance across 10 agencies, totaling $1.3 billion.
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