Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA OT18 18020202SUPP20
The grant opportunity titled "Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services through National Partnerships to Improve and Protect the Nations Health" is an emergency supplemental funding forecast issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It was created in direct response to the COVID-19 outbreak and is designed to rapidly expand and reinforce public health response capacity by leveraging partnerships that were already funded under an earlier CDC initiative. The funding mechanism is a cooperative agreement, meaning CDC expects to have substantial involvement in the work through coordination, guidance, and shared implementation expectations rather than simply issuing a hands-off grant.
A key point is that this supplemental opportunity is not open to the general public or to new applicants. Eligibility is limited to organizations that were previously awarded funding in Fiscal Year 2018 under Funding Strategy 1 of the original announcement, CDC-RFA-OT18-1802. In practical terms, only those prior awardees can apply, and they must submit new project plans (referred to as CIO Project Plans) that are specifically aimed at addressing COVID-19 needs. Applicants are expected to apply within the same target population category and target population framework they were funded under in 2018 (Category A, B, or C), which keeps the supplemental work aligned with the scope and communities those organizations were already serving.
Although the supplemental uses Fiscal Year 2020 funds, it is structured to support work in Year 2 of the original OT18-1802 project period, not Year 3. This matters for planning because it ties the COVID-19 response activities to the timelines, reporting, and performance structure already established in Year 2, rather than extending or reshaping the project into a later-year expansion. The CDC also notes that both the number of awards and the final funding amounts could change depending on appropriations, so the forecasted figures should be treated as provisional rather than guaranteed.
Programmatically, the supplemental is built around using the original grant's seven existing strategies as the foundation for emergency response capacity-building. Those strategies cover: public health systems infrastructure; leadership and workforce; data and information systems; communication and information technology; partnerships; laws and policies; and programs and services. Instead of creating a brand-new response framework, CDC is essentially asking funded national partners to pivot and apply these established strategy areas to the urgent operational demands created by COVID-19, strengthening the broader public health system through coordinated national partnership activity.
The specific emergency and crisis response capabilities emphasized in this supplemental include improving incident management for early crisis response; supporting jurisdictional recovery; strengthening biosurveillance; strengthening information management; enhancing countermeasures and mitigation; strengthening surge management; strengthening communications; and achieving Incident Management System (IMS) response objectives. Together, these priorities reflect a full emergency management cycle, from early detection and coordinated command structures to public messaging, operational data flows, healthcare and public health surge support, mitigation strategies, and the longer recovery phase that follows the most acute response period.
Administratively, the opportunity is listed as discretionary funding in the health activity category under CFDA 93.421, with CDC's Office of State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support (OSTLTS) as the issuing component. The opportunity number is CDC-RFA-OT18-18020202SUPP20. The posting date is March 19, 2020, and the application deadline is April 2, 2020, with electronic submissions due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. The forecast anticipates up to 27 awards, and the listed award ceiling is 2 (as shown in the source data), though CDC explicitly cautions that award numbers and amounts may change based on available funds.
Overall, this supplemental is best understood as a rapid-response funding add-on intended to activate and scale the capacities of existing CDC-funded national partners, so they can immediately contribute to COVID-19 response needs using established public health system strengthening strategies, while maintaining alignment with the structure and target populations of their original FY2018 awards.Apply for CDC RFA OT18 18020202SUPP20
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - OSTLTS in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services through National Partnerships to Improve and Protect the Nations Health" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.421.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 19, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 02, 2020 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.APPLICATIONS MAY BE SUBMITTED AT ANY TIME AFTER POSTING ON GRANTS.GOV.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 27 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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