This department is offering a grant to enhance the Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) program by developing comprehensive state food emergency response plans. The grant aims to improve communication, coordination, and implementation of food emergency systems on a regional scale. It will support administrative costs for meetings, communication, scheduling, and exercises related to emergency readiness, response, and recovery efforts. The grant does not cover construction costs and will focus on strengthening FERN’s mission for coordinating food emergency efforts in the USDA and FDA. Application deadline: Jul 16, 2008.
Opportunity ID: 42276
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | USDA-FSIS-FERN-07092008 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | FSIS-FERN Food Emergency Management Program Cooperative Agreement |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Agriculture Food and Nutrition |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 10.479 — Food Safety Cooperative Agreements |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Jul 09, 2008 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 16, 2008 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 16, 2008 |
| Archive Date: | Aug 15, 2008 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | – |
| Award Floor: | – |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | State Emergency Management Agencies from TX, LA, MS, AL, FL, GA, NC, SC, TN, KY and Puerto Rico. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Food Safety Inspection Service |
| Description: | The Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) currently comprises 150+ federal, state, and local government regulatory laboratories with varying capacities to perform threat agent testing. FERN has 41 cooperative agreements already in place which target state, local, and tribal FERN labs in an effort to augment the networks microbiological, chemical, and radiological threat agent testing capacities. The current FERN cooperative agreement labs also focus on developing better diagnostic capabilities for threat agent testing within the Network partner laboratories. These current cooperative agreements enhance the ability to analyze for microbiological, chemical and radiological threat agents utilizing FERN methods and improve laboratory capacities for food defense assignments and outbreak response. In support of emergency readiness, response and recovery efforts, FERN has been an integral participant of numerous state emergency response exercises that have warranted FERN state laboratory support as provided by the 150+ state laboratories within FERN, however frequent after action review identifies the lack of a comprehensive food emergency response plan that addresses the following systems: Notification, Communication, Deployment, Sampling, Field- Diagnostics, Chain of Custody, Transport, Fern-lab Diagnostics, FERN Reporting, After Action Gap Analyses, etc. Subsequent implementation of these established food emergency response systems would occur on a regular basis on a regional scale in support of the food safety and protection efforts of the USDA and FDA, collectively FERN. This Food Emergency Management Cooperative Agreement will augment the current FERN southeast regional coordination efforts and expand the number of comprehensive state food emergency response plans. Subsequent construction of a regional food emergency response plan and its implementation will augment the FSIS FERN mission for coordination and communication of food emergency efforts on a regional scale. This new Food Emergency Management Cooperative Agreement would support the administrative costs for coordination meetings, communications, scheduling, implementation exercises and related exercise costs. Procurement of meeting space and travel costs directly associated with such efforts must be according to state government per diem rates and reimbursement of personnel expenses. [NOTE: The agreements will not support construction costs.] |
| Link to Additional Information: | – |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Thomas Beacorn
VMO-Sr. Staff Officer Phone 706-546-3426 Email:thomas.beacorn@fsis.usda.gov |
Version History
| Version | Modification Description | Updated Date |
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Related Documents
Folder 42276 Full Announcement-1 -> 2008 Announcement -Emergency Management Agency Coordinated Efforts (2).pdf
Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Thomas Beacorn VMO-Sr. Staff Officer Phone 706-546-3426 Email: thomas.beacorn@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 | PKG00007781 | Jul 09, 2008 | Jul 16, 2008 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
42276 SF424-2.0.pdf
42276 SF424A-1.0.pdf
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