Sam.gov (formerly FedBizOpps) is a list of U.S. Federal Government procurement invitations, contract awards, subcontracting leads, and foreign business opportunities published each business day. Contract Opportunities.
Type - Award Notice, Presolicitation, Combined Synopsis/Solicitation, etc.
Search: "Active Documents"; "Archived Documents" (up to Last 365 Days); or "Both." Vendors and citizens may search, monitor, and retrieve opportunities. Search more than 32,300 active federal opportunities.
Grants.gov.Grants.gov is designed to enable federal grant-making agencies to create funding opportunities and applicants to find and apply for these federal grants. The Grants.gov Online Help provides explanations and step-by-step instructions for both applicants and grantors to complete these processes.
If accessing from off-campus, use VPN or create an account. A comprehensive global source of funding opportunities available free to all Georgia Tech researchers. Researchers can search for funding opportunities or sign up for e-mail alerts.
Use VPN. Provided by the Georgia Tech Research Corporation. Accessing PIVOT from off-campus. In order to use Pivot, you need to either be hard networked on-campus or using a VPN. Otherwise, you must create a Pivot account. This essentially verifies that you are affiliated with Georgia Tech, as you have to use your GT email address and select GT as an affiliated member institution when signing up. Do NOT LOGIN with Insitutional credentials. Once you create the account, you can then sign in with your GT email and the password you set up for the account when accessing PIVOT from off-campus.
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COS Pivot unifies global COS Funding Opportunities and Profiles. Georgia Tech subscription.
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Tabs for Funding, Profiles, Papers Invited, Awards
Includes academic, commercial, federal, state, province/national and local government, multinational organization, private foundation, and professional society or association funding sponsor types.
Pivot focuses on ... the ability to identify and connect funding opportunities to researchers at their institution.
Awarded Grants
Connecting Funding and Research Expertise. Pivot combines the ... database of funding opportunities worth an estimated $44 billion with our unique database of 3 million pre-populated scholar profiles, drawing from Community of Scholars and Community of Science profiles.
Papers Invited consists of detailed, comprehensive information about calls for papers with deadlines regarding forthcoming conferences and special issues of scholarly journals. These calls for papers are issued by professional bodies, journal editors, and other conference organizers in all disciplines and from all over the world. Thus, the database serves as an alerting service for researchers, scholars, and students seeking opportunities to present and publish their research.
Users can receive alerts whenever new matching opportunities are posted that match their saved searches. Enables you to add internal deadlines to critical funding opportunities and sends weekly updates on saved searches.
Learn more about Pivot. Training: Pivot training videos. User Guide: Pivot starter guide
Pivot has a proprietary algorithm that compiles pre-populated researcher profiles unique to your organization (and others) and matches them to current funding opportunities. Identifies researcher expertise from within or outside of your organization
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