Small Business Consulting Services Guide

Spotz Scientific lists a standard consulting fee of $250 per hour. A premium fee of $300 per hour applies when review materials are provided less than two weeks before the deadline of a Notice of Funding Opportunity. This hourly model is suited to focused strategy sessions, draft reviews, red-team feedback, or proposal planning support.

A small business consultant helps clarify strategy, evaluate funding fit, strengthen written materials, and identify gaps before submission. For SBIR-focused scientific computing applicants, Spotz Scientific provides proposal strategy, insider-perspective review, and guidance on how program managers may evaluate technical merit, responsiveness, and alignment with agency priorities.

Yes. Spotz Scientific offers General SBIR consulting for small businesses pursuing federal research funding, including DOE and other agency opportunities. Support may include proposal strategy, review of technical narratives, evaluation of responsiveness to the funding notice, and recommendations for making the submission clearer, more competitive, and better aligned with reviewer expectations.

A red team review provides independent, critical feedback before a proposal or pre-proposal is submitted. Dr. Spotz reviews materials from the perspective of federal research funding evaluation, especially for scientific computing proposals to DOE Office of Science, ASCR, NSF CISE, and related programs. The goal is to identify weaknesses early and improve competitiveness.

You should begin as early as possible, ideally when you are interpreting the funding opportunity and shaping the proposal concept. Spotz Scientific charges a premium when materials arrive less than two weeks before a deadline, which reflects the added urgency. Earlier engagement allows more time for strategy, structure, alignment, and substantive revision.

Spotz Scientific is especially focused on scientific computing, computational science, applied mathematics, high performance computing, scientific machine learning, data analysis, and related research areas. The consulting is most relevant for small businesses, researchers, universities, national laboratories, and teams pursuing technically demanding federal funding opportunities through DOE, NSF, or SBIR programs.

Yes. Spotz Scientific provides strategic advisory services for specific Notices of Funding Opportunities. This includes helping applicants understand agency priorities, assess responsiveness, frame the technical approach, and position the work for reviewers. The service is particularly useful for DOE Early Career, NSF CAREER, SBIR, and scientific computing funding opportunities.

Spotz Scientific is led by Bill Spotz, who brings over thirty years of scientific computing experience and eight years as a program manager at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. He co-led DOE ASCR’s applied mathematics program and managed over $264 million in scientific computing research, offering rare insight into federal funding evaluation.