Improving the Impact of Laboratory Practice A New Paradigm for Metrics, CSELS and DLPSS | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

This funding opportunity, titled "Improving the Impact of Laboratory Practice: A New Paradigm for Metrics" (CDC RFA OE13-130402CONT14), was a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discretionary grant announcement offered as a cooperative agreement under the health funding activity category. The program sits within CFDA 93.064, "Laboratory Training, Evaluation, and Quality Assurance Programs," which signals a focus on strengthening laboratory systems through training, performance evaluation, and quality improvement approaches. The core idea reflected in the title and program framing is that laboratory practice should be measured and improved using better, more meaningful metrics, emphasizing impact and outcomes rather than only counting activities. The CDC components referenced, CSELS (Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services) and DLPSS (Division of Laboratory Programs, Standards, and Services), indicate that the work is tied to CDC priorities around laboratory quality, standards, and the broader public health laboratory enterprise.

A key practical point is that this particular posting was not an open competition. It was explicitly described as a continuation of funds intended only for organizations that had already received awards under the earlier funding opportunity CDC RFA OE13-1304 with the same program name. In other words, it functioned as a continuation or supplement mechanism for existing grantees rather than a solicitation inviting new applicants. The listing of "Eligible Applicants: Others (see text)" and the eligibility clarification makes clear that eligibility was restricted to prior awardees, so new entities would not have been able to apply successfully unless they were already part of the original cohort funded under the predecessor announcement.

In terms of scale and timing, the opportunity projected up to 50 expected awards, which suggests a relatively broad set of continuing recipients (for example, state and local public health laboratory partners, professional organizations, academic or training partners, or other entities involved in laboratory quality and evaluation work). The notice was posted on April 2, 2014, with an original and final closing date of April 10, 2014, reflecting a short application window typical of continuation actions where current grantees submit streamlined continuation documentation rather than full, de novo proposals. The archive date of May 10, 2014 indicates when it was removed from active listings after the application period ended.

The funding amounts were not specified in the public summary fields: estimated total funding, award ceiling, award floor, and similar fields are shown as zero. In government listings, this sometimes occurs when the detailed amounts are provided in internal continuation guidance, in award-specific budget negotiations, or in the full announcement text rather than the abbreviated synopsis. The cost sharing or matching requirement was listed as "No," meaning recipients were not required to contribute non-federal matching funds as a condition of the award, which can reduce barriers for public sector and non-profit implementers.

Because the instrument type is a cooperative agreement, recipients would generally expect substantial federal involvement compared with a standard grant. In cooperative agreements, CDC program staff typically collaborate with awardees through technical assistance, shared planning, and ongoing program oversight. For a program centered on improving laboratory practice metrics, this collaborative model often aligns with activities such as developing or refining performance indicators, piloting measurement frameworks across multiple sites, standardizing data collection and reporting methods, evaluating the effectiveness of training and quality initiatives, and translating evaluation findings into updated guidance or best practices that can be used across the laboratory community. While the short synopsis does not list required activities, the program title strongly implies that awardees were working toward a more rigorous, outcome-oriented way to assess how laboratory improvements translate into better public health performance.

For organizations that needed help accessing the full announcement at the time, the contact point was the CDC Procurement and Grants Office (PGO), with a phone number of 770-488-2700 and the email address pgotim@cdc.gov. This is consistent with CDC grant administration practice, where PGO supports applicants and recipients with access, submission, and administrative questions, while programmatic questions are often handled by the specific CDC program office.

Overall, this announcement was essentially a continuation funding vehicle supporting existing CDC-funded partners working on laboratory training, evaluation, quality assurance, and especially the development and use of improved metrics to demonstrate and increase the impact of laboratory practice within the public health system.

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