To submit a LOI through PAMS, applicants must first have completed their PAMS registration. For information on PAMS registration, please click here. Once they are registered and ready to submit their LOI, applicants must log into PAMS and take the following steps:
- Select “View Funding Opportunity Announcements” and find the current FOA announcement in the list.
- Click on “Actions/Views” for this announcement, select “Submit Letter of Intent” from the dropdown and follow the instructions from there.
- Click on “Select PI” on the far right side of the screen and then select the appropriate PI from the list of all registered users associated with the Business Official’s institution. Note, submitters may select only one PI. If the proposed PI’s name does not appear on the list, then they are not yet registered in PAMS.
- If the PI is not yet registered in PAMS, submitters may send an email invitation to the PI inviting them to register and associate their name with the submitter’s institution. To take this step, choose “Invite PI” at the top left of the “Select PI” screen.
- Enter the project title, topic number, and subtopic letter designation. The project title should be descriptive of the proposed research and should not include any redundant phrases such as “Phase I,” “Letter of Intent,” the topic number and subtopic letter or the actual DOE subtopic and subtopic titles.
- To upload the LOI as an attachment into PAMS, select “Attach File” at the far right side of the screen. Search for the file on your computer and then select “Attach” to upload the file. It is important that the LOI be a single pdf file. At this point an optional description of the attached file may be entered.
- Using the dropdown at the bottom of the screen, save the LOI and then submit it to DOE. Upon submission, the submitter will receive an email from PAMS acknowledging receipt of the LOI.
For additional support in submitting your LOI to PAMS, click here.