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Funding Opportunity – Commercial Fabrication Facilities Guide: 

Full Application Cover Page (Web-form questions) 

OMB Control #0693-0094, Expiration Date 09/30/2023 

Document Overview 

These instructions refer to the Full Application Cover Page web form that can be found in the CHIPS 

Incentives Application Portal.

Applicants for the CHIPS Incentives program submitting a Full Application should complete this web 

form according to the instructions in this document.

Please refer to the CHIPS Incentives Program—Commercial Fabrication Facilities Notice of Funding 

Opportunity (CHIPS-CFF NOFO) section IV.I. for details on the full application. Please also refer to the 

FAQs on the CHIPS website (at https://www.nist.gov/chips/frequently-asked-questions) for general 

information on the full application.

Throughout the review process, the Department may request additional information and/or revisions 

regarding this submission.

Instructions 

Please populate all applicable and required fields to complete the Full Application Cover Page web form. 

If fields are pre-populated based data previously submitted, they must be verified for accuracy.

• Name of Application: Provide a descriptive name for the application / project(s) for which the 

entity is requesting CHIPS incentive funds.

Applicant Organization Information

• Applicant Name: Provide the legal name of the entity applying for CHIPS Incentives (not the 

individual filling out the application)

• Corporate Parent Name (If applicable): Provide the legal name of the corporate parent of the 

entity applying for CHIPS Incentives.

• Mailing Address: Include street address, city, state, and zip for US addresses and equivalent 

information for foreign addresses, including country/location. If you do not know the 9-digit zip 

code for your U.S. location, enter “0000” for the last four digits.

• Organization Website: Provide a URL address for the applying entity’s website (or corporate

parent if entity does not have a website).

• Is the applicant a consortium?: Select “Yes” or “No” to indicate whether the applicant is a 

consortium. A consortium application involves an umbrella entity and multiple participating 

entities. For more information on consortium applications, refer to section III.A.1. of the CHIPSCFF NOFO.
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Full Application Cover Page

• Have you registered for a SAM.gov account? Choose “Yes” or “No” from the dropdown menu to 

indicate whether the potential applicant has applied for an account in the federal government’s 

System for Award Management (SAM.gov). A prerequisite for any award by the Department is an 

active registration in the System for Awards Management (SAM). Applicants are strongly 

encouraged to begin the process of registering for SAM.gov as early as possible. While this 

process ordinarily takes between three days and two weeks, in some circumstances it can take six 

or more months to complete due to information verification requirements. CPO is unable to issue 

a CHIPS Incentive to an entity that lacks an active SAM.gov registration.

• UEI # [Optional]: If the entity has already received a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) via SAM.gov, 

enter the number. If the entity has not yet received a UEI, leave this box blank.

Applicant Point of Contact

Please enter information for the applicant point of contact, who should be an individual legally 

authorized to submit an application on behalf of the entity.

• Full Name: The full name of the point of contact

• Title: The official title of the point of contact at the applying entity

• Email Address: A business email for the point of contact

• Phone Number: A business phone number to reach the point of contact

Partnership information

• Are there other entities (e.g., customers, suppliers, investors, advisors) you are partnering with 

in a meaningful way?: Choose “Yes” or “No” from the dropdown menu to indicate whether the 

applicant is partnering with other entities.

• Please describe any potential partners referred to above: Provide names and brief 

description of any potential partners (maximum 1500 characters), as well as how the broader 

partnership will be governed.

Burden Statement

A Federal agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, nor shall a 

person be subject to a penalty for failure to comply with an information collection subject to the 

requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 unless the information collection has a currently 

valid OMB Control Number. The approved OMB Control Number for this information collection is 0693-

0094. Without this approval, we could not conduct this information collection. Public reporting for this 

information collection is estimated to be approximately 125 hours per response, including the time for 

reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and 

completing and reviewing the information collection. All responses to this information collection are 

mandatory to be eligible for CHIPS Act Funding. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any 

other aspect of this information collection, including suggestions for reducing this burden to the 

National Institute of Standards and Technology at Cierra Bean, Business Operations Specialist, 

askchips@chips.gov.