The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to build an integrated information technology (IT) data management system and user community to be utilized by state, local, territorial, and tribal (SLTTs) regulatory and public health partners for their human and animal food regulatory and public health programs.
Donor Name: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 02/22/2022
Grant Size: $6,000,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
In coordinated efforts with the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) strategic partners, the IFSS operations continue to implement risk-based inspections and investigations, ensure consistent and meaningful laboratory data and practices, establish national standards to ensure consistency across all jurisdictions, and improve response capabilities to foodborne illness outbreaks, recalls, and food emergencies.
FDA continues to work towards achieving a national IFSS in addition to promoting One Health and supporting domestic mutual reliance (DMR) initiatives to protect the food supply for both humans and animals and advance public health.
Objectives
The application should include a list of collaborators and their roles and responsibilities. The grantee will be expected to work directly with the user community involving a range of stakeholders including, but not limited to federal and SLTT partner agencies for the development and continuous improvement of the data management system.
This data management system should include the following capabilities and features:
- Perform firm search and firm history
- Store and share inspection and investigation reports, lab data, complaints, recalls, and enforcement actions.
- Promote early identification and response to food emergencies by supporting product traceability and identifying trends in the supplier chain.
- Support implementation and conformance to regulatory program standards with features to assist with risk-based categorization of firms, work-planning, tracking enforcement actions and compliance follow-up in response to violative findings, and tracking consumer complaints.
Funding Information
- Award(s) will provide one (1) year of support and include future recommended support for two (2) additional year(s) contingent upon annual appropriations, availability of funding and satisfactory awardee performance.
- FDA /ORA intends to commit up to $6,000,000 in FY 2022 to fund one award.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education) Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
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