Instructions for Preparing a Directed Source Award Application Fiscal Year 2010 | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

This Fiscal Year 2010 CDC grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number CDC RFA HK10 001E) is a discretionary cooperative agreement under the health activity category, tied to CFDA 93.061, Innovations in Applied Public Health Research. The announcement is essentially an instruction package for preparing a directed source award application, meaning it is not an open competitive funding opportunity. Instead, Congress specifically directed CDC to make an award to a named recipient, and CDC is using this notice to document the expectations and application requirements for that designated organization.

The public health need behind the award centers on the rapid rise of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) as major aggregators of clinical and health-related data. HIEs can collect information in near real time from many different sources (for example, hospitals, clinics, laboratories, and other care settings), and they can reformat or transform that information to meet public health reporting or operational requirements. Compared with traditional public health data feeds, HIE data can be broader, more timely, and more detailed, producing larger and more complex datasets than public health agencies have historically received. The opportunity described here is driven by a practical gap: even though the data is becoming available, many public health agencies lack mature capabilities, tools, and workflows to routinely analyze, visualize, and operationalize these high-volume, high-complexity datasets for day-to-day surveillance and for investigative activities during outbreaks or other urgent events.

The primary purpose of the directed award is to support development or advancement of new tools that help public health agencies actually use HIE-derived data, rather than simply receive it. The emphasis is on routine analysis and visualization of large, complex datasets and on leveraging these datasets for surveillance and investigation functions. In plain terms, the work is aimed at making HIE data actionable for public health by improving how it can be processed, explored, and interpreted, especially when timeliness and scale matter.

The funding structure is a cooperative agreement, which typically indicates substantial involvement by CDC during the project period compared with a standard grant. While the notice does not spell out programmatic details of CDC involvement in the excerpt provided, cooperative agreements generally imply collaboration on technical direction, performance expectations, and reporting, so the funded work would likely be carried out with ongoing interaction with CDC staff.

Funding information in the notice indicates an estimated total of $350,000, with one expected award. No cost sharing or matching is required. The award ceiling and floor are both listed as 0 in the posted metadata, which often occurs in older postings or directed awards where the ceiling is effectively controlled by the congressional direction and internal award planning rather than a stated maximum range for competitive applicants.

Eligibility is narrowly restricted. The announcement states that assistance will be provided only to the organizations, state and local governments, health agencies, or their bona fide agents specifically listed in the notice, and that no other applications are solicited. The named directed recipient in this case is Inland Northwest Health Services. In other words, even though the opportunity is posted publicly, it functions as a formal mechanism for a pre-identified awardee to submit the required application materials and for CDC to process the award consistent with the appropriation direction.

Key dates show the opportunity was posted and created on May 26, 2010, with an original and current closing date of July 20, 2010, and an archive date of August 19, 2010. Those dates reinforce that this was a time-limited application window intended for the directed entity to submit its package.

For administrative and access support, the notice provides a CDC Procurement and Grants Office contact point. Applicants (in practice, the directed recipient) who have trouble accessing the full announcement electronically are instructed to contact CDC Procurement and Grants Office Grants at 770-488-2700 or via email at pgotim@cdc.gov.

Overall, the opportunity is best understood as a targeted federal investment, directed by the FY2010 appropriation, to help close a specific capability gap in public health informatics: transforming the growing stream of HIE data into practical surveillance and investigation capacity through improved analytic and visualization tools that can handle large, complex, real-time datasets.

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