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Opportunity Summary:

The Great Lakes Climate Protocol, Data Access, Summarization and Reporting opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number NPS NOIR2105120008) is a National Park Service discretionary funding action that was issued as a notice of intent rather than an open, competitive solicitation. In practical terms, it is not inviting proposals from the public and should not be read as a standard grant competition. Instead, it announces the National Park Service's plan to make a single, noncompetitive award under an existing cooperative framework, specifically through the National Park Service Desert Southwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU). The notice cites the Department of the Interior's internal policy authority for noncompetitive awards (505 Departmental Manual 2.12C), which is typically used when an agency has a justified reason to direct an award to a specific organization rather than conduct a full competition.

The funded work is framed around the Great Lakes Climate Protocol and focuses on data access, summarization, and reporting. While the brief public description does not spell out technical deliverables, the title and program context indicate the effort centers on obtaining or organizing relevant climate-related datasets, producing summaries that translate raw information into usable findings, and preparing reports that support National Park Service natural resource management and decision-making. The funding activity category is Natural Resources, and the CFDA listing includes 15.945 (Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System), aligning the project with applied research, data synthesis, and resource stewardship priorities within the National Park System. The instrument type is a cooperative agreement, which generally means the National Park Service expects to be substantially involved during the project period (for example, through collaboration on methods, review of interim products, coordination of data standards, or joint development of reporting outputs).

This announcement anticipated a single award (Expected Awards: 1) with an estimated total funding amount of $34,491. No cost sharing or matching is required. The award ceiling and floor are both listed as $0 in the public record, which commonly appears in archived listings and does not necessarily indicate the absence of funding; the estimated total funding figure is the better indicator of the expected award size. The eligibility section clarifies that the action is a single-source award specifically to the Sonoran Institute. The "Eligible Applicants" field is broadly labeled as "Others," but the accompanying eligibility statement makes it clear that this is not a request for applications and that the award is already intended for a named organization. As a result, other entities were not eligible to compete for this funding through this posting.

Timing details show the opportunity was posted and created on June 8, 2012, with an original and current closing date of June 13, 2012. That short window is consistent with a notice-of-intent posting for a directed award rather than a competitive grant cycle. The opportunity was archived on July 13, 2012, indicating it is a past, closed action. Anyone needing access to the full announcement materials (for example, the attached notice that would contain more specifics about scope, deliverables, and administrative details) is directed to contact Kelly Adams, Grants Management Specialist, at 303-969-2392, particularly if they have difficulty accessing the announcement electronically.

In summary, this funding listing documents a National Park Service plan to issue a small, targeted cooperative agreement under the CESU network for work related to Great Lakes climate protocol data handling and reporting. It is noncompetitive, directed to the Sonoran Institute, and intended to support natural resource management needs through organized data access, synthesis, and formal reporting rather than to solicit new applications from a broad field of applicants.

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