Title: Dear Colleague Letter NSF 02-133
Date: 5/28/02
Replaced:
 
 


                        NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
                           4201 Wilson Boulevard
                         Arlington, Virginia 22230

May 24, 2002

Dear Colleague:

This letter provides modifications to NSF-02-085, International Digital
Libraries Collaborative Research and Applications Testbeds Program
Solicitation.

The intention of this Dear Colleague Letter is (1) to confirm that cost
sharing is not required under NSF-02-085, (2) to remove Special Review
Criterion #10, and (3) to extend the proposal deadline to Monday, June 3,
2002. The confirmation that cost sharing is not required and the two other
changes to the Program Solicitation are in response to some conflicting
information on a non-NSF web site regarding NSF-02-085.

(1) As stated in NSF-02-085 and restated here, NSF does not require cost
sharing for proposals submitted to NSF under this Program Solicitation.
Cost sharing is not an eligibility or a review criterion. This is
consistent with NSF's cost sharing policy (see
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1999/iin124/iin124.htm.

(2) Section VI.A. "NSF Proposal Review Process" included 10 Additional
Review Criteria. Criterion #10, which alluded to the possibility of
additional review elements, is being deleted from NSF-02-085. Only Special
Criteria #1 through #9 will be applicable to proposals submitted under this
Program Solicitation.

(3) The deadline for this solicitation is being extended from 5:00 p.m.
local time May 27, 2002 to 5:00 p.m. local time June 3, 2002. Previously
submitted proposals may be revised in response to this Dear Colleague
letter and resubmitted to NSF via FastLane by the revised deadline date.
The originally submitted proposal should be withdrawn. Proposals that are
not impacted by this change do not need to be resubmitted.

Program Solicitation NSF-02-085, as modified and described above, is NSF's
sole, approved description of NSF's participation in this international
collaboration. It will govern the requirements and review criteria for
proposals submitted to NSF. (See
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf02085/nsf02085.html)

Sincerely,

William Bainbridge,
Acting Division Director,
Division of Information and Intelligent Systems