NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD Ethnographic Overview and Assessment of Virgin Islands National Park Hassel Island | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

This notice describes a National Park Service (NPS) intent to make a single, non-competitive cooperative agreement award for a project focused on cultural and ethnographic research at Hassel Island, which is part of Virgin Islands National Park. It is explicitly not a request for applications, meaning the NPS is not soliciting proposals from the public through an open competition. Instead, the agency is publishing the announcement to provide transparency and public notice that it plans to fund specified project work under an existing cooperative agreement arrangement.

The opportunity is listed under Funding Opportunity Number P15AS00335 and is categorized as a discretionary award using a Cooperative Agreement as the funding instrument. The activity category is Natural Resources, and the associated CFDA number is 15.954 (National Park Service Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education). The announcement indicates an expectation of one award, with an estimated total funding amount of $59,310. Both the award ceiling and award floor are shown as $0, which is common in notices of intent because the total value is stated separately and the posting is not structured like a competitive grant solicitation with a defined range.

The core purpose of the funded effort is an "Ethnographic Overview and Assessment" of Hassel Island. In practical terms, an ethnographic overview and assessment typically involves gathering, documenting, and analyzing information about the cultural meanings, traditional uses, community connections, and lived experiences associated with a place. For a national park setting, this can include identifying culturally affiliated groups, documenting oral histories and community knowledge, understanding past and present relationships to landscapes and resources, and producing an organized set of findings that can support park planning and management decisions. The notice frames these activities as being carried out within Virgin Islands National Park, with the project title specifically referencing Hassel Island.

The award is to be made without "full and open competition" under Cooperative Agreement H5000105040. That phrasing signals that the NPS has determined there is a justification to fund this work through a specific partner arrangement rather than running a standard competitive process. Cooperative agreements also typically imply substantial involvement by the federal agency during project performance, such as collaboration on methods, coordination with park staff, facilitation of access to park resources, and review of deliverables.

Eligibility is identified as private institutions of higher education. Even though eligibility is stated, the key point remains that the announcement is not inviting applications; it is documenting the agency's intent to fund the project through the noted cooperative agreement mechanism. The posting date and creation date are both August 24, 2015, with an original and current closing date of September 1, 2015, and an archive date of September 4, 2015. In this context, the "closing date" functions more like the end of the public notice period rather than a deadline for proposal submissions, since proposals are not being requested.

For additional details, the notice points readers to Grants.gov and provides a federal contact for access issues or questions about the announcement: Sandra Newton, Awarding Officer, reachable at 305-242-7028 and SandraNewton@nps.gov.

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