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Opportunity Summary:

The Office of Health Affairs Bio Preparedness Collaboratory grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number DHS 10 OHA 122 001) is a Department of Homeland Security effort to fund a single, large demonstration project focused on biosurveillance and health security. The central aim is to build a comprehensive statewide capability to analyze public health trends and to detect unusual incidents that could signal events with homeland security implications. In practical terms, the project is meant to strengthen the ability to spot emerging biological threats, abnormal disease patterns, or other indicators that something may be happening that warrants rapid investigation and response.

A key feature of the opportunity is that DHS is not only seeking a one-off state system, but a proof-of-concept that can shape national practice. The announcement makes it clear that DHS expects lessons learned, methods, and results from this statewide demonstration to inform the development of a broader model for nationwide bio health trends analysis. That model would similarly focus on detecting incidents that may threaten homeland security, suggesting the project is intended to produce approaches that are scalable, repeatable, and transferable beyond the initial implementation.

The award mechanism is a cooperative agreement, which typically implies substantial involvement by the federal government during the period of performance compared with a standard grant. That structure often aligns with complex research-and-development style projects where the agency anticipates collaboration on technical direction, milestones, data-sharing expectations, or coordination with other government efforts. The funding activity category is listed as science and technology and other research and development, reinforcing that this is meant to be an applied R&D demonstration rather than a routine service program.

Financially, the opportunity includes an estimated total funding amount of $5,000,000, with an award ceiling also set at $5,000,000, and DHS anticipated making one award. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement stated, meaning the recipient would not be required to provide non-federal matching funds as a condition of the award. The opportunity was posted and created on May 6, 2010, with an original and current closing date of May 21, 2010, and it was later archived on June 20, 2010, indicating it was a time-limited, dated solicitation.

Eligibility is unusually narrow: the announcement restricts eligibility to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The eligible applicants field is marked as "Others (see text field...)," but the eligibility clarification explicitly limits the competition to UNC-Chapel Hill, making it effectively an earmark-style or sole-eligible-institution funding action. The administering office is the Office of Procurement Operations, Grants Division, and the point of contact listed for access issues with the full announcement is the grants officer, Joan Keiser, reachable by phone at 202-447-5603.

Overall, this opportunity represents a targeted DHS investment in building and demonstrating an advanced, statewide biosurveillance and public health trend analytics capability with homeland security relevance, with the explicit intention that the resulting system design and findings help guide a future nationwide model for detecting biological or health-related incidents that could pose security risks.

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