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Opportunity Summary:

The funding opportunity titled "National Park Service Student experience in national trails GIS development activities" (Funding Opportunity Number NPS NOIP15AC01641) is a National Park Service discretionary funding notice that serves primarily as a formal notice of intent to make a noncompetitive award, rather than an open call for proposals. In practical terms, it is not inviting applications from the general public or from a broad pool of institutions. Instead, it announces the government's plan to issue a single-source cooperative agreement, meaning the recipient has effectively already been selected.

The award is being made under the authority and procedures described in the Department of the Interior's 505 Departmental Manual 2.12C, which covers circumstances where a noncompetitive (single-source) financial assistance award is appropriate. The notice also states that the work will be implemented through a task agreement under the National Park Service Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU). CESUs are partnership networks commonly used by DOI agencies to carry out research, technical assistance, and education projects with university and other partners, and a "task agreement" is the mechanism used to define and fund a specific piece of work within that framework.

The project focus is on providing a student experience connected to GIS development activities related to national trails. While the notice does not spell out technical deliverables in the text provided, the title and activity category strongly indicate that the work involves geospatial data development, mapping, and related GIS support that benefits National Trails and other NPS natural resource and park system needs. The Funding Activity Category is listed as Natural Resources, and the CFDA listing is 15.945, described as "Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System," which aligns with projects that combine applied resource work with training and workforce development, including student involvement.

In terms of funding details, the award amount is fixed: both the award ceiling and award floor are listed as $25,098, indicating a single anticipated award at that exact amount. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement, meaning the recipient is not required to provide non-federal funds as a condition of receiving the award. The funding instrument type is a Cooperative Agreement, which generally implies that the National Park Service expects to have substantial involvement in the project during performance (for example, collaboration on methods, review of outputs, coordination of priorities, or other hands-on federal participation), as distinct from a standard grant where involvement is typically more limited.

Eligibility is explicitly restricted. Although the eligible applicant field is broadly labeled "Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification)," the eligibility statement clarifies that this is not a request for applications and that it is a single-source award to the University of New Mexico. That language is important because it signals that other entities are not being solicited and should not expect a competitive selection process. The timeline information supports that it was posted as a notice with a short window: posted and created on August 25, 2015, with an original and current closing date of September 4, 2015, and archived on October 4, 2015. Those dates are typical for public posting requirements tied to noncompetitive awards, where agencies must still publish a notice even though they are not accepting proposals.

For anyone trying to access the full announcement and encountering technical issues, the contact listed is Katie Gaertner, a Grants Management Specialist with the National Park Service (a phone number is implied but not provided in the text shown). Overall, the key takeaway is that this announcement documents NPS intent to fund a specific, modestly sized cooperative agreement through the Colorado Plateau CESU to support student-involved GIS development work related to national trails, awarded noncompetitively to the University of New Mexico under DOI policy.

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