Notice of Intent to Issue Funding Opportunity Announcement titled Medium and Heavy Duty Vehicle Powertrain Electrification and Dual Fuel Fleet Demonstration | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

This posting is a Notice of Intent (NOI), not an open solicitation. It was issued to give organizations an early heads-up that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and its Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO), planned to release a future Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) focused on medium- and heavy-duty vehicle powertrain electrification and dual-fuel fleet demonstrations. The key practical takeaway is that this NOI is informational only: DOE explicitly stated that it would not accept applications under the NOI and asked parties not to submit questions or otherwise respond to the notice. Instead, the notice encouraged prospective applicants to use the time before the FOA release to line up project partners, refine technical concepts, and assemble the kinds of supporting data typically needed for a competitive demonstration proposal.

The planned FOA referenced by this NOI was FOA No. DE-FOA-0001349, titled "Medium and Heavy Duty Vehicle Powertrain Electrification and Dual Fuel Fleet Demonstration." The NOI itself is identified as Funding Opportunity Number DE-FOA-0001355, and it was posted on July 13, 2015, with an archive date of October 13, 2015. DOE indicated the FOA was expected to be posted to the EERE Exchange website in August 2015, which is the platform DOE commonly uses for EERE competitive funding announcements and application submissions. Because this is only a notice of intent, the listing shows zero expected awards under the NOI itself, reinforcing that no funding decisions or selections would occur from responding to this posting.

In terms of anticipated funding scale and structure, the notice provides the financial parameters DOE expected to apply to the forthcoming FOA. The estimated total funding amount is listed as $11,000,000. Individual awards were expected to range from a floor of $500,000 up to a ceiling of $10,000,000, suggesting DOE anticipated a small number of relatively substantial demonstration projects rather than many small research grants. The funding instrument type is a cooperative agreement, which typically means DOE expects to be substantially involved during project execution (for example, through technical direction, milestone reviews, and collaboration on project adjustments), as opposed to a more hands-off grant structure.

Eligibility is described as "unrestricted," meaning it was open to any type of applicant organization (such as private companies, universities, national laboratories where permitted, nonprofits, state and local governments, or consortia), subject to any additional clarifications that would appear in the actual FOA text. The notice also flags that cost sharing or matching would be required. In DOE demonstration programs, cost share is often a significant component, especially for later-stage technology validation, pilot deployments, and fleet demonstrations, because it signals market commitment and helps stretch federal dollars across more real-world deployments. The specific cost-share percentage and what costs qualify would have been detailed in the FOA rather than in the NOI summary.

Programmatically, the topic area points to applied demonstration work for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, specifically around (1) powertrain electrification and (2) dual-fuel operation in fleet settings. While the NOI does not lay out technical subtopics, deliverables, or evaluation criteria, the title and context indicate DOE was aiming to accelerate validation and adoption of advanced vehicle technologies in real operating environments, where performance, reliability, emissions benefits, fuel savings, duty-cycle compatibility, and total cost considerations can be measured credibly. Fleet demonstrations typically involve partnerships among technology providers (vehicle OEMs or retrofit integrators, battery or power electronics suppliers, engine and fuel system providers), end users (fleet operators), and sometimes universities or testing organizations that can handle data collection, measurement protocols, and independent evaluation.

Administratively, the agency name is listed as the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), which often provides contracting and agreement management support for DOE funding opportunities even when the technical program office is EERE/VTO. The activity category is Energy, and the CFDA number is 81.086 (Conservation Research and Development), which is commonly associated with EERE-managed efficiency and transportation R&D and demonstration activities. The Additional Information link points to the EERE Exchange site where the eventual FOA would be posted.

For anyone who could not access the announcement electronically, the notice provided a support contact rather than a program Q-and-A channel: Contract Specialist Jacqulyn Wilson via EEREExchangeSupport@hq.doe.gov, listed under EERE Exchange Support. This aligns with the instruction not to submit questions about the NOI itself, while still offering a way to resolve access or technical issues retrieving documents.

Overall, the NOI serves as an advance signal that DOE expected to fund cost-shared, cooperative-agreement demonstration projects in the medium- and heavy-duty transportation space, with an emphasis on electrified powertrains and dual-fuel fleet applications. The practical action item implied by the notice was to prepare for the forthcoming FOA on EERE Exchange by organizing the right project team, selecting demonstration fleets and duty cycles, establishing data collection and validation plans, and preparing the business and technical case that would be required once the actual FOA opened for submissions.

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