FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreement Program

Due: Apr 22, 2024

$246,875

DescriptionThe Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) currently comprises federal, state, and local government regulatory laboratories with varying capacities to perform threat agent testing. The Contaminants and Threat Agents Group (CTAG) within the Laboratory Quality Assurance, Response and Coordination Staff (LQARCS) in USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is seeking to award new cooperative agreements thereby continuing its program of providing surge capacity and capability for food defense and food safety testing to FSIS. T...

Estimated Total Program Funding$1,985,000Expected Number of Awards8Award Ceiling$246,875Award Floor$230,000

Eligible Applicants- Others

Additional Eligibility Information

Eligible Applicants – Only FERN member laboratories with active status in the FERN CCM Portal (www.fernlab.org ) are eligible for funding. This includes Public or State Higher Education Institutions, State Governments, County Governments and Federally Recognized Indian and Native American Tribal Governments. Submissions from laboratories that are not FERN members or FERN members with an inactive status on the proposal submission due date, April 22, 2024, will not be reviewed and will not be eligible for funding.

Funding TypeCooperative AgreementCategories of Funding Activity- AgricultureOpportunity TypeDiscretionary

Grantor Contact InformationGroup emailGrantor Emailfsis.fernheadquarters@usda.govOther Grantor InformaitonUSDA-FSIS LQARCS Contaminants and Threat Agents Group 706-713-5681

FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreement Program

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