FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreement Program
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FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreement Program: 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 repository, including housing all FERN methods, operational SOP's and other network documents, 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, and each data set (1-10) will be organized with data output/reporting in the format and manner specified by FERN.
Federal Grant Title: | FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreement Program |
Federal Agency Name: | Food Safety Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) |
Grant Categories: | Agriculture |
Type of Opportunity: | Discretionary |
Funding Opportunity Number: | FSIS-FERN-061020 |
Type of Funding: | Cooperative Agreement |
CFDA Numbers: | 10.479 |
CFDA Descriptions: | Information not provided |
Current Application Deadline: | July 3rd, 2020 |
Original Application Deadline: | July 3rd, 2020 |
Posted Date: | June 10th, 2020 |
Creation Date: | June 10th, 2020 |
Archive Date: | August 2nd, 2020 |
Total Program Funding: | $250,000 |
Maximum Federal Grant Award: | $250,000 |
Minimum Federal Grant Award: | $250,000 |
Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
Cost Sharing or Matching: | No |
Last Updated: | June 10th, 2020 |
- Applicants Eligible for this Grant
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Grant Announcement Contact
- Robert W Phillips
Senior Microbiology
Phone 706-546-2349
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