The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) division of the USDA is offering a cooperative agreement for website maintenance and development for the Food Emergency Response Network (FERN). The grant ensures a secure communication portal for network member labs, including training registration, proficiency tests, public webpage maintenance, online ordering, and more. The portal aims to enhance collaboration, capacity, and readiness data for member laboratories, with data exchange capabilities with FDA’s eLEXNET system. The grant application deadline is August 11, 2016.
Opportunity ID: 286933
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | FSIS-FERN-080316 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreement – Website |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Agriculture |
| Category Explanation: | Food and Nutrition |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 10.479 — Food Safety Cooperative Agreements |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Aug 04, 2016 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 11, 2016 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 11, 2016 |
| Archive Date: | Sep 10, 2016 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | $250,000 |
| Award Floor: | $155,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Public and State controlled institutions of higher education |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | – |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Food Safety Inspection Service |
| Description: | The Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) currently comprises federal, state, and local government regulatory laboratories with varying capacities to perform threat agent testing. The FERN division in USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is seeking to award a cooperative agreement for providing and maintaining, in its current active state, a secure communication and collaboration portal which will provide the FERN with capability, capacity and readiness data for the network member laboratories. In addition, this portal will provide for: (1) training event registration and historical tracking of attendees; (2) Just in time training with video and webinar capability to multi-agency participants; (3) proficiency test event registration and historical tracking of participants; (4) public webpage maintenance and enhancement; (5) FERN Storeroom online, secure ordering and inventory maintenance; (6) capability and capacity information available from first day of award date; (7) Activation management and results data entry database for all members during exercise and actual activation events; (8) FERN methods repository complete with search functionality for all capabilities of network; (9) FERN Calendar of events automatically populated from each network event scheduled within the website functional arena, (10) 24 hour helpdesk assistance and online management of user accounts, (11) maintain current data exchange with FDA’s eLEXNET system for FERN Users and Laboratory data; and each (1-10) data set will be organized with data output/reporting in the format and manner specified by FERN. |
| Link to Additional Information: | – |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Robert Phillips
Senior Microbiology Phone 706-546-2349 Email:robert.phillips@fsis.usda.gov |
Version History
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Related Documents
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Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Robert Phillips Senior Microbiology Phone 706-546-2349 Email: robert.phillips@fsis.usda.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.479 | PKG00226366 | Aug 03, 2016 | Aug 11, 2016 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
286933 SF424_2_1-2.1.pdf
286933 SF424B-1.1.pdf
286933 SF424A-1.0.pdf
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