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Opportunity Summary:

This opportunity is a federal discretionary funding action from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) within the Department of the Interior, identified as Funding Opportunity Number USGS 16 FA 0124 and titled "Notice of Intent to Award Noncompetitive Action." It is not presented as an open, competitive solicitation; instead, it functions as a formal notice that the agency intends to make a single award through a noncompetitive process. The posting and creation dates are both April 13, 2016, and the listed closing date is April 27, 2016, which is consistent with a notice-style posting that often serves public transparency requirements rather than inviting a wide pool of applicants to compete.

The funding instrument is a Cooperative Agreement, which typically means the USGS expects to have substantial involvement in the project during the period of performance, such as collaboration on technical direction, data collection approaches, research design, deliverables, or coordination activities. The activity area is categorized under Science and Technology and other Research and Development, signaling that the supported work would fall in the research or applied science space rather than, for example, direct service delivery or infrastructure construction. The associated CFDA number is 15.808, which is the catalog identifier used to classify federal assistance programs for tracking and reporting purposes.

Eligibility is limited to public and state-controlled institutions of higher education. In practice, that usually points to state universities and similar public college systems as the intended recipients. The opportunity indicates an Expected Awards count of 1, reinforcing that the agency anticipates making a single award, likely to a specific institution selected in advance due to mission alignment, unique capabilities, an ongoing collaboration, statutory direction, continuity of a long-running project, or other justifications that support a noncompetitive award.

The posting lists an Award Ceiling of 0. In federal notices, this sometimes appears when the agency is not disclosing the anticipated dollar amount in the synopsis, when the amount is to be determined, when funding is subject to availability, or when the notice is primarily procedural and the funding details are handled through internal documentation or a separate agreement package. Because the description provided is only "Notice of Intent," there are no additional technical details included here about the project scope, expected deliverables, performance period, or budget parameters.

Overall, the key takeaway is that this is a USGS notice announcing an intention to proceed with a noncompetitive cooperative agreement in a science and technology research and development context, with eligibility restricted to public/state-controlled higher education institutions, and with only one award anticipated. Anyone evaluating this posting should treat it less like a standard grant competition and more like a transparency announcement for an award the agency already plans to make, with limited public application opportunity implied by the "noncompetitive" designation and the minimal descriptive information provided.

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