Closed · FSIS-FERN-061020 · CFDA 10.479 · Discretionary

FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreement Program

Federal grant opportunity posted by Food Safety Inspection Service, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$250K-$250K
Award range
Closed
Status
July 3, 2020
Close date
1
Expected awards

The verdict

FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreement Program is a closed discretionary listing from Food Safety Inspection Service that offered $250,000 -- $250,000 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 16 other opportunities from Food Safety Inspection Service.

$250K-$250K
award range
Closed
application status
1
expected award
10.479
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreement Program is closed (last close July 3, 2020). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Food Safety Inspection Service still indexes 16 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed July 3, 2020

Posted Jun 10 Closes Jul 3

Est. Total Funding

$250,000

Expected Awards

1

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

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.

Campus applicant desk · Agriculture

Grants.gov prints only higher-education applicant doors for FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreement Program (Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education). This reads as a campus competition desk, not a civic or commercial open call. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Agriculture (AG). 2 other Food Safety Inspection Service listings share this eligibility-code string (12% of 17).

Code 06
Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

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Agency Contact

Robert W Phillips Senior Microbiology Phone 706-546-2349

What to do next

FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreement Program is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

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