[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 135 (Monday, July 15, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42084-42085]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-16860]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA-2013-N-0010]
Cooperative Agreement to Support the World Trade Organization's
Standards and Trade Development Facility
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing its
intention to receive and consider a single source application for the
award of a cooperative agreement in fiscal year 2013 (FY 2013) to the
World Trade Organization's (WTO) Standards and Trade Development
Facility (STDF).
DATES: Important dates are as follows:
1. The application due date is August 1, 2013.
2. The anticipated start date is September 2013.
3. The expiration date is August 2, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Submit electronic applications to: http://www.grants.gov.
For more information, see section III of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section of this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scientific/Programmatic Contact: Julie
Moss, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS-550), Food and
Drug Administration, 5100 Paint Branch Pkwy., College Park, MD 20740,
240-402-2031, email: [email protected].
Grants Management Contact: Kimberly Pendleton Chew, Office of
Acquisitions and Grant Services (HFA-500), Food and Drug
Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, rm. 2105, Rockville, MD 20857, 301-
827-9363, email: [email protected].
For more information on this funding opportunity announcement (FOA)
and to obtain detailed requirements, please refer to the full FOA
located at www.fda.gov/food/newsevents/default.htm.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Funding Opportunity Description
RFA-FD-13-036
93.103
A. Background
The STDF is a unique global partnership established by the Food and
Agriculture Organization, World Organization for Animal Health, World
Bank, World Health Organization (WHO) and the WTO. The STDF supports
developing countries in building their capacity to implement
international sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) standards, guidelines,
and recommendations as a means to improve their human, animal, and
plant health status and ability to gain or maintain access to markets.
In achieving its aims, the STDF acts as both a coordinating and a
financing mechanism.
The STDF is a widely established knowledge platform for information
exchange, sharing experiences and the identification and dissemination
of good practice on SPS-related technical cooperation. Since 2004, over
60 projects and 52 project preparation grants have assisted developing
countries to overcome SPS constraints, and gain and maintain market
access. Over 50% have benefited least developed and other low-income
countries.
The STDF utilizes a key decision-support tool, Multi-Criteria
Decision Analysis (MCDA), to help establish SPS priorities and ensure
resources are used as efficiently as possible. The use of the MCDA tool
is unique within the STDF and is a highly-valued attribute; the MCDA
tool facilitates an open and transparent discussion among public and
private stakeholders about capacity-building needs and resources. The
STDF is committed to the Paris Principles on Aid Effectiveness and to
achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
With an increasingly diverse and complex global food supply, FDA's
interest is to strengthen food safety systems globally to prevent food
safety
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problems rather than merely reacting to problems after they occur. FDA
recognizes that it cannot do this alone. By leveraging with other WTO
member countries and partnering with the STDF, FDA can broaden the
reach of food safety capacity building efforts.
This cooperative agreement will allow FDA to deepen its
international food safety capacity building partnerships, provide a
wider scope of impact than exists currently and leverage resources with
other countries.
B. Research Objectives
The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to:
1. Contribute to the knowledge base and development of food safety
systems globally due to the increasingly diverse and complex food
supply;
2. Enhance and broaden FDA's ability to address global food safety
and public health issues associated with food;
3. Provide opportunities to leverage additional resources among WTO
member countries;
4. Support FDA's Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and its
International Food Safety Capacity Building Plan, which emphasizes the
concept of preventing food safety-related problems before they occur
and the importance of establishing strong relationships and mutual
support among all stakeholders, including multilateral organizations,
to improve worldwide food safety.
C. Eligibility Information
Competition is limited to the STDF hosted by the WTO. The STDF is a
global partnership with a well-established, trusted presence and is
uniquely qualified to further the global food safety capacity building
objectives of this cooperative agreement. STDF's mandate is to: (1)
Increase awareness, mobilize resources, strengthen collaboration,
identify and disseminate good practice; and (2) provide support and
funding for the development and implementation of projects that promote
compliance with international SPS requirements.
An independent external evaluation of the STDF in 2008 concluded
that the STDF ``carries out an important role that no other single body
would be able to accomplish.'' (Source: STDF Newsletter, Vol. 2, Issue
1, February 2009, accessible at: www.standardsfacility.org) As such,
the STDF is uniquely equipped to fulfill the objectives of this
cooperative agreement due to its diverse access to WTO members in both
developed and developing countries and its ability to coordinate
capacity building programs at a national, regional, and global level.
Engaging the STDF through this cooperative agreement will provide FDA
with ample opportunities to leverage additional resources among WTO
member countries.
Overall, the objectives of the STDF are directly in line with the
objectives of this cooperative agreement. This ability to advance the
objectives of this cooperative agreement through member country
engagement and leveraging is a requisite for success.
II. Award Information/Funds Available
A. Award Amount
The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition intends to fund
one award up to $750,000 total costs (direct plus indirect costs) for
FY 2013. Future year amounts will depend on annual appropriations and
successful performance.
B. Length of Support
The award will provide 1 year of support and include future
recommended support for 4 additional years, contingent upon
satisfactory performance in the achievement of project and program
reporting objectives during the preceding year and the availability of
Federal fiscal year appropriations.
III. Electronic Application, Registration, and Submission
Only electronic applications will be accepted. To submit an
electronic application in response to this FOA, applicants should first
review the full announcement located at www.fda.gov/food/newsevents/default.htm. (FDA has verified the Web site addresses throughout this
document, but FDA is not responsible for any subsequent changes to the
Web sites after this document publishes in the Federal Register.) For
all electronically submitted applications, the following steps are
required.
Step 1: Obtain a Dun and Bradstreet (DUNS) Number
Step 2: Register With System for Award Management (SAM)
Step 3: Obtain Username & Password
Step 4: Authorized Organization Representative (AOR)
Authorization
Step 5: Track AOR Status
Step 6: Register With Electronic Research Administration
(eRA) Commons Steps 1 through 5, in detail, can be found at http://www07.grants.gov/applicants/organization_registration.jsp. Step 6, in
detail, can be found at https://commons.era.nih.gov/commons/registration/registrationInstructions.jsp. After you have followed
these steps, submit electronic applications to: http://www.grants.gov.
Dated: July 10, 2013.
Leslie Kux,
Assistant Commissioner for Policy.
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