All proposals are scored on criteria stipulated in the current solicitation. NEUP conducts two separate reviews on each proposal: a relevancy review and a technical review. NEUP's scoring categories for the two reviews are listed below.

R&D Review Scoring Categories
Relevancy		Technical
1.	Unquestionably Relevant/Unquestionable Program Priority	1.	High Merit
2.	Highly Relevant/High Program Priority	2.	Moderate Merit
3.	Relevant/Intermediate Program Priority	3.	Low Merit
4.	Low Relevance/Low Program Priority	4.	No Merit
5.	Not Relevant/No Program Priority

Each workscope area defines its own competitive range; therefore, competitive scores will be different for each workscope area.

For more information about the review process and scoring criteria refer to the 2012 R&D Request for Pre-Applications in the 2012 Archive on www.neup.gov.

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