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Our consulting services are designed to give your company leverage by maximizing product development and growth.
R&D Business Solutions has the expertise to help your company through critical stages of the business venture. Whether you're a start-up or established company, we provide critical information for making successful business decisions.
Our Consulting Services include:
Project Planning
Project Planning provides design and organization of the new business venture. It should be the first step for any new product. R&DBS offers Project Planning by providing an in-depth technology analysis. We supply decision-makers with information and insights needed for making wise business decisions during critical growth stages.
R&DBS performs a comprehensive technology assessment of your new business venture through assessing the product concept, market, competition, potential for commercialization, and funding options.
Key areas of Project Planning include determining:
- Technology Assessment
- Objective
- Methods
- Resources
- Commercial Significance
- Project Costs
- Project Milestones and Timeline
A good project plan provides a roadmap for funding success.
Business Plan Development
Each emergent technology should have a business plan. A new venture is a risky business and the importance of planning can not be emphasized enough. A business plan provides a road map for success by doing several things:
- Identifies objectives
- Market analysis
- Develops strategies to meet those objectives
- Earmarks problems and suggests ways to solve them
- Creates structure by defining activities and responsibilities
- Obtains the necessary financing to start the business venture
Whether you're applying for a grant, debt financing, or seeking partners and investors, a sound business plan will help you secure funding.
R&D Business Solutions will evaluate and revise existing business plans or work with you to create a new plan. Our consultants are business plan evaluators for the Emtek fund.
Funding Search
A key to getting a proposal funded is identifying potential funding sources and matching the project idea to an agency's priority.
We locate grants for early-stage, innovative business ventures. Our Grant Procurement consulting team uses cutting-edge technology to locate the right grant program for your firm.
Our customized grant search will provide detailed information regarding contact, description of the grant, objectives, deadlines, and requirements.
Proposal Development
R&D Business Solutions can help you secure grants by locating grant programs that match your technology and providing competitive grant proposals.
A successful proposal is about developing a good idea, planning, organizing, locating a funding match, and following agency instructions and guidelines.
We specialize in grant programs for innovative business ventures including SBIR/STTR, NIST-ATP, "Special" DOD and NIH grant announcements, basic research projects, and contract solicitations.
Our Proposal Development consulting team will help your firm gain a competitive edge by providing grant and contract expertise and developing proposals that meet the needs and requirements of the funding agency.
Proposal Development services include:
- Grant/contract writing and proposal development
- Electronic proposal registration, preparation, and submission
- Brainstorming ideas and workable solutions
- Cultivating project goals and objectives
- Preparing application materials
- Submitting/Re-submitting proposals
- Proofreading, editing, formatting and revising existing proposals
Grant Strategy
R & D Business Solutions can help you develop a grant pipeline for early stage research and development. Grants provide bridge funding to determine feasibility of your product. Determining feasibility early on will help you make critical go-no-go decisions and bring other funding sources to the table. There are several grant programs available to for-profit entities for innovative and early-stage R&D.
The Grant Strategy process consists of the following:
- Technology assessment
- Brainstorming and identifying viable project ideas
- Ensuring project ideas relate to the mission and business strategy of Client
- Identifying potential funding sources
- Creating a funding plan for potential grant proposals and deadlines for submission
Grant and Project Management
Once the grant is funded, what's next? Federal agencies enforce strict guidelines on the administration of a grant. The grantee is expected to maintain compliance with all federal requirements.
R&D Business Solutions is experienced in grant management and capable of addressing issues that arise in the administration of a grant. We ensure integrity and accountability in grant and administrative processes by requiring the grantee to develop and implement the following:
- Adequate internal controls
- Appropriate oversight of individual research projects
- Frequent reviews of progress reports, fiscal reports, correspondence, audit reports
Key areas of Grant Management include:
- Fiscal Management
- Indirect Cost Negotiations
- Mock Audits
- Reporting
- Compliance
- Non-competing Continuations
- Technical Assistance (as needed)
Key areas of Project Management include:
- Maintain project schedule and milestones through MS Project
- Maintain subcontracts and change orders
- Track effort and timekeeping on project
- Prepare progress and technical reports
- Maintain contractual activity for outsourced work
For additional information, contact info@rndbs.com or call 858.756.6275.
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