Cooperative Agreement Terms and Conditions. The administrative and funding instrument used for this program will be a Cooperative Agreement, an assistance mechanism in which substantial HHS programmatic involvement with the recipient is anticipated during the performance of the activities. Under each Cooperative Agreement, HHS’ purpose is to support and stimulate the recipient's activities by involvement in, and otherwise working jointly with, the award recipient in a partnership role. To facilitate appropriate involvement during the period of this Cooperative Agreement, HHS and the recipient will be in contact at least once a month, and more frequently when appropriate. Cooperative Agreement Roles and Responsibilities are as follows: HHS will have substantial involvement in program awards, as outlined below: • Technical Assistance – HHS will host opportunities for training and/or networking, including conference calls and other vehicles. • Collaboration – To facilitate compliance with the terms of the Cooperative Agreement and to support recipients more effectively, HHS will actively coordinate with other relevant Federal Agencies including but not limited to the Indian Health Service, the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Homeland Security, the Administration for Children and Families, and the Social Security Administration. • Program Evaluation – HHS will work with recipients to implement lessons learned to continuously improve this program and the nation-wide implementation of Exchange Navigator Programs. • Project Officers and Monitoring – HHS will assign specific Project Officers to each Cooperative Agreement award to support and monitor recipients throughout the period of performance. HHS Grants Management Officers, Grants Management Specialists, and Project Officers will monitor, on a regular basis, progress of each recipient. This monitoring may be by phone, document review, on-site visit, other meeting and by other appropriate means, such as reviewing program progress reports and Federal Financial Reports (FFR or SF-425). This monitoring will be to determine compliance with programmatic and financial requirements. Recipients and assigned points of contact retain the primary responsibility and dominant role for planning, directing and executing the proposed project as outlined in the terms and conditions of the Cooperative Agreement and with substantial HHS involvement. Recipients shall engage in the following activities: • State and Exchange Requirements – comply with applicable ...
Cooperative Agreement Terms and Conditions. The following special terms of award are in addition to, and not in lieu of, otherwise applicable U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) administrative guidelines, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) grant administration regulations at 45 CFR Part 75, and other HHS, PHS, and CDC grant administration policies. The administrative and funding instrument used for this program will be the cooperative agreement, an "assistance" mechanism (rather than an "acquisition" mechanism), in which substantial CDC programmatic involvement with the recipients is anticipated during the performance of the activities. Under the cooperative agreement, the HHS/CDC purpose is to support and stimulate the recipients' activities by involvement in and otherwise working jointly with the award recipients in a partnership role; CDC Project Officers are not to assume direction, prime responsibility, or a dominant role in the activities. Consistent with this concept, the dominant role and prime responsibility resides with the recipients for the project as a whole, although specific tasks and activities may be shared among the recipients and HHS/CDC as defined below. The PD(s)/PI(s) will have the primary responsibility for: • Designing and conducting research to address the described research objectives in this cooperative agreement • Coordinating all technical, scientific, and administrative aspects of activities at the awarded institution, and at other sites that may be supported by this award • Defining objectives and approaches; collecting and analyzing data; and publishing results, interpretations, and conclusions of studies conducted under the terms and conditions of the program award • Ensuring that appropriate Institutional Review Board approvals for research involving human subjects for all participating sites, collaborators, or partners are obtained • Retaining custody of, and primary rights to, the data and software developed under this award, subject to Government rights of access consistent with current DHHS, PHS, and CDC policies • Consulting with CDC/NIOSH to ensure compliance with relevant grant policies and regulations CDC staff has substantial programmatic involvement that is above and beyond the normal stewardship role in awards, as described below: • Participating in quarterly meetings (in person or virtually) with other commercial fishing award recipients, USCG and NIOSH • Coordinating ad hoc meetings and requests for information as needed • Conduc...
