Under a waived topic the limit does not prohibit any firm from submitting
What the document says“If the Federal agency grants a waiver under subparagraph (A) with respect to a topic for the SBIR or STTR program of a Federal agency, paragraph (1) shall not prohibit any small business concern from submitting an SBIR or STTR proposal to that Federal agency under such topic.”
Subparagraph (E) states what a waiver does. Where an agency grants one for a topic, the proposal limit in paragraph (1) does not prohibit any small business concern from submitting a proposal to that agency under that topic. The waiver runs to every firm, not to the one that asked.
What the document actually says“If the Federal agency grants a waiver under subparagraph (A) with respect to a topic for the SBIR or STTR program of a Federal agency, paragraph (1) shall not prohibit any small business concern from submitting an SBIR or STTR proposal to that Federal agency under such topic.”
When a topic gets a lift, the cap stops applying to it. Any firm can send in a bid on that topic.
The lift is not for one firm. It is for the topic. So every firm gets the same benefit from it.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.