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SITCOM colleagues recently published guidance on the scope of value added community contributions to commissioning that they seek (see Appendix 3 to this call). This new guidance is much more extensive than was available when the UK call for EoI was published in 2020. We encourage colleagues to review Appendix 3 as they formulate their detailed proposals in response to this call, regardless of whether they submitted an EoI in 2020.
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This call runs in parallel with a similar opportunity for the US and Chilean communities that is the focus of a separate Announcement of Opportunity (AO). UK colleagues may come across that AO through their involvement in their respective Science Collaborations. International partners are not eligible to apply through the US/Chile AO. This is because the US/Chile AO extends the opportunity to join SITCOM that has effectively been available to international partners through the in-kind process, and of which this UK call for proposals is part. Nevertheless, we are collaborating with US colleagues to ensure that the US/Chile AO and this UK call are synchronised and consistent to the extent possible and that makes sense. For example, the detailed information in Appendices 3 and 4 comes from the US/Chile AO.
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