FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreement

Post Date

May 3rd 2010

Application Due Date

May 21st 2010

Funding Opportunity Number

USDA-FSIS-05032010

CFDA Number(s)

10.479

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Agriculture
Food and Nutrition

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education

Funding

• Award Range:

  $None - $400000

Grant 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 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 and each (1-4) data set will be organized and output/reported in the format and manner specified by FERN.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Agriculture

• Office:

  Food Safety Inspection Service

• Agency Contact:

  Michael Myers
  Staff Officer
  Phone 706-546-3664

• Agency Mailing Address:

  contact email

• Agency Email Address:

  michael.myers1@fsis.usda.gov