Justification for Less than Maximum Competition. Section 319C-1, which authorizes the PHEP cooperative agreement program, limits eligibility for the formula awards to states or a consortium of states that prepare and submit a sufficient application compliant with the statutory and administrative requirements described in this document. The term “state” includes the several states, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Freely Associated States of Palau, Republic of the Xxxxxxxx Islands, and Federated States of Micronesia. Because the formula awards are statutorily prescribed, no limited justification is necessary. In addition to the formula awards, the statute authorizes CDC to make awards to up to three political subdivisions that have a substantial number of residents, have a substantial local infrastructure for responding to public health emergencies, and face a high degree of risk from bioterrorist attacks or other public health emergencies. CDC has determined that Chicago, Los Angeles County, and New York City meet the requirements of this provision. The statute also authorizes CDC to make awards to “eligible entities” that have a significant need for funds to build capacity to identify, detect, monitor, and respond to a bioterrorist or other threat to the public health, which need will not be met by the formula award, and face a particularly high degree of risk of such a threat. CDC has determined that the Cities Readiness Initiative local planning jurisdictions and the Level 1 Laboratory Response Network chemical laboratories meet the requirements of these provisions. And, by statute, Washington, D.C., is deemed to meet the requirements for one of these awards.
Justification for Less than Maximum Competition. The eligible applicants to receive funding are limited to governmental public health departments that are constitutionally empowered to protect the health and welfare of their respective communities. Eligible applicants must have functional public health emergency management programs, legal authority, and already existing public health emergency management capacity, thus they are pre-positioned to act expeditiously to meet the requirements of this cooperative agreement. Administrative preparedness and existing public health emergency management capacity are integral components of the infrastructure of the entities that receive funding, and this funding will give grantees additional capacity to respond to public health crises. The eligible entities are limited to the 50 state public health departments, local public health departments with current alignment to PHEP or ELC (includes Washington D.C.), and territorial governments in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Xxxxxxxx Islands, and the Republic of Palau. These agencies have participated in a large number of public health emergency response activities in cooperation with many CDC programs for many years. In addition, tribal governments meeting the requirements laid out in this NOFO and serving a population of at least 50,000 members are eligible to compete.
Justification for Less than Maximum Competition. N/A Applications that exceed the 36-month period of performance limit or the total cost limit of $975,000 per 36-month performance period (including consortium F&A costs) will be considered non-responsive. CDC/NIOSH will notify the applicant and request that the application be withdrawn. A withdrawn application will not be peer-reviewed. Applications will be considered non-responsive if they do not clearly indicate how the required 25% non-Federal cost match will be met. A letter of commitment should be included in the application to indicate the amount and the source of the cost match. If this information is not provided, CDC/NIOSH will notify the applicant and request that the application be withdrawn. A withdrawn application will not be peer-reviewed. Applicants must provide a statement about which 46 U.S.C. § 4502 (j) Safety Standards and the XXXX Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing objectives are being addressed. Provide a rationale for how the proposed training will contribute to the specified priority area(s). Explain how the proposed training will contribute to the NIOSH Research to Practice (r2p) initiative and state the expected Outcomes and Outputs (see Section I - Approach). Place this information in both the Project Abstract and in the Research Strategy (Significance) sections of the application. If this information is not provided, CDC/NIOSH will notify the applicant and request that the application be withdrawn. A withdrawn application will not be peer-reviewed. Upon receipt, applications will be evaluated for completeness by CDC/NIOSH. CDC/NIOSH will screen all applications for responsiveness. Incomplete or non-responsive applications will not be reviewed. Applicants will be requested to withdraw non-responsive applications.
Justification for Less than Maximum Competition. Cost Sharing or Matching
Justification for Less than Maximum Competition. As defined in sections 319C-1 and 319C-2 of the PHS Act, eligible applicants for this funding opportunity are states, a consortium of states, or eligible political subdivisions that prepare and submit a sufficient application compliant with the statutory and administrative requirements described in this document. For the purposes of this announcement, the term “state” may include a state, territory, or freely associated state.
