(FOA-Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) FY 20 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA);
January 7, 2020
Agency
Department
of Health and Human Services
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
Description
The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Office of Science (OS)
issues this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) which provides for the competitive
selection of research proposals. Funding of research within CDC will be
determined by funding constraints and research priorities set during each
fiscal year. Therefore, those contemplating submission of a white paper are
encouraged to contact the CDC BAA technical point of contact as noted below to
determine whether the research warrants further inquiry.
If
the research warrants further inquiry and if funding is available, then
submission of a white paper/proposal will be entertained. For all email
inquiries to the Subject Matter Expert Technical POC, please copy the CDC BAA
Technical Coordinator as well. Contact information for each topic and subtopic
is included in the full BAA, linked below.
The
following four-step sequence is established for offerors contemplating submission of a white paper or a
proposal under this BAA.
- Step
1:
Email Contact (Technical Dialogue)
- Step
2: Submission of
Informal White Paper (Technical Dialogue), Note-- CDC cannot discuss
budget estimates or number of awards expected and cannot review draft
white papers prior to submission.
- Step
3:
Submission of Formal Research Proposal, Note -- Once white papers are
submitted technical dialogue STOPS!
- Step
4:
Contract Award for Selected Projects
For
this announcement, CDC is requesting white papers for the following areas:
- Topic
1:
Increasing Engagement of Persons Living with Prediabetes and at high risk
for developing type 2 diabetes in the National Diabetes Prevention Program
(DPP) Lifestyle Change Program (NCCDPHP)
- Topic
2:
Developing novel intervention methods for tick and mosquito-borne disease
(NCEZID)
- Topic
3:
Antibiotic Resistance (AR) Pathogens and Clostridium difficile infection
(CDI) (NCEZID)
- Topic
4:
Development, implementation and deployment of data management system for
curation and reporting of annual Neisseria gonorrhoeae whole genome sequence data
(NCHHSTP)
- Topic
5:
Approaches to prevention and control of bacterial vaccine-preventable
diseases (NCIRD)
- Topic
6:
Developing information needed to advance Legionnaires’ disease prevention
(NCIRD)
- Topic
7:
Surveillance for non-invasive pneumococcal pneumonia
(NCIRD)
- Topic
8:
Use Modeling and Forecasting Tools to Improve the U.S. Response to
Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza (NCIRD)
- Topic
9:
Address Critical Gaps in Knowledge of the Total Preventive Benefit of
Influenza Vaccines (NCIRD)
- Topic
10:
Virology, Surveillance and Diagnosis Branch in the Influenza Division,
NCIRD, CDC is seeking technologies that will improve vaccines through
in-depth virus characterization and by identifying/selecting optimal
candidate vaccine viruses(NCIRD)
- Topic
11:
Innovative laboratory and analytic methods to confirm influenza
transmission within households and describe influenza viral diversity
(NCIRD/ID)
Announcement
Number:
75D301-20-R-67837
Closing
Date:
January
7, 2020
Link
to Full Announcement
https://beta.sam.gov/opp/2a88752b9a3343b99b8beed691ef16b2/view?keywords=%22CENTER%20FOR%20DISEASE%20CONTROL%20FY%2020%20BROAD%20AGENCY%20ANNOUNCEMENT%22&sort=-relevance&index=&is_active=true&page=1
Contact
Information
Diana
Bartlett
dbartlett@cdc.gov