Reissue PHS 2013 02 Omnibus Solicitation of the NIH, CDC, FDA and ACF for Small Business Innovation Research Grant Applications (Parent SBIR R43/R44) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

This grant opportunity, Funding Opportunity Number PA-13-234, is a reissued omnibus solicitation from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). It invites eligible US small business concerns to apply for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards under the parent mechanisms R43 (Phase I) and R44 (Phase II). The basic intent is to fund high-impact research and development led by small businesses that can produce innovative technologies, products, tools, services, or interventions aligned with the research and development missions of the participating federal components. Rather than being limited to a single scientific niche, this is an omnibus, multi-agency solicitation that points applicants to agency and component priorities and encourages proposals that match specific program interests and topic areas laid out in the companion SBIR/STTR program descriptions and research topics document referenced in the announcement.

The opportunity sits in the discretionary grant category and uses the grant funding instrument, meaning awards are made competitively based on merit review and programmatic relevance rather than as formula funding. The activity categories listed for the solicitation span education, environment, food and nutrition, health, and income security and social services. In practice, that breadth reflects the involvement of multiple HHS agencies and the wide range of problems they fund: from biomedical and behavioral research to public health surveillance and prevention, from regulatory science relevant to FDA to social services research relevant to ACF. Applicants are expected to bring not only scientific capability but also the practical, development-oriented mindset SBIR is known for, where the goal is to translate R and D into something that can ultimately be deployed, scaled, and sustained in the real world.

Eligibility is limited to small business concerns based in the United States. Foreign (non-US) entities are not eligible to apply, and non-US components of US organizations are also not eligible. However, the notice indicates that foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, may be allowable in some circumstances, which typically means a US small business applicant can sometimes justify limited foreign work if it is essential, unique, or otherwise strongly warranted and consistent with policy. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement, so applicants are not required to provide non-federal funds as a condition of the award, which is consistent with standard SBIR expectations.

From a topic and mission standpoint, the solicitation is intentionally broad and mapped to many CFDA program areas, signaling that proposals may fall under a wide array of scientific and public health domains. The CFDA listings included in the opportunity data cover, among many others, FDA research; environmental health; oral health; injury prevention; human genome research; deafness and communication disorders; disability prevention; complementary and integrative health; sleep disorders; mental health; occupational safety and health; alcohol and drug abuse research; CDC investigations and technical assistance; technology innovation to improve human health; minority health and health disparities; translational sciences; nursing research; multiple cancer research areas (cause and prevention, detection and diagnosis, treatment, biology, and control); cardiovascular, lung, blood, arthritis/musculoskeletal/skin, diabetes/digestive/kidney, neurological disorders, allergy and infectious diseases, microbiology and infectious diseases, general biomedical research and training, child health and development, aging, vision research, and even medical library assistance. On the ACF side, the CFDA references also include welfare reform research and broader social services research and demonstration programs, underscoring that the solicitation is not purely laboratory science and can include technology-enabled services or interventions with social-service relevance when aligned with ACF priorities.

The practical takeaway for applicants is that this FOA functions as a parent SBIR entry point: a small business with a strong innovation concept can apply under Phase I to establish feasibility and proof of concept, and then under Phase II to continue development and move closer to a product or deliverable with real-world utility. The solicitation specifically encourages small businesses that have the research capabilities and technological expertise to contribute to the missions of NIH, CDC, FDA, or ACF awarding components identified in the FOA. Because this is an omnibus solicitation, a key step for any prospective applicant is to align the proposal to one of the participating components and to the topic priorities identified in the referenced SBIR/STTR program descriptions and research topics document, since those topics help determine fit and assignment for review and funding consideration.

Key administrative details in the posting indicate it was posted and created on May 30, 2013, with an original and current closing date of January 7, 2014, and an archive date of February 7, 2014. That means the specific cycle described is historical and no longer open, but the structure is representative of NIH and partner agency parent SBIR solicitations, which are often reissued periodically with updated dates and topic documents. The official full announcement was hosted through the NIH Grants Guide (with an additional information link provided), and the contact point listed is the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) webmaster for technical access or linking issues, which implies that scientific or programmatic questions would typically be directed to the relevant agency program contacts identified within the full FOA text rather than to the webmaster.

In summary, PA-13-234 is a multi-agency parent SBIR grant solicitation designed to channel US small business innovation into federal priority areas across health, public health, regulatory science, and social services. It supports R and D with commercialization-oriented outcomes, does not require cost sharing, restricts applicants to US small businesses (with limited policy-based exceptions for foreign components), and covers a very wide scientific and programmatic landscape through the participating NIH, CDC, FDA, and ACF components and the many CFDA areas listed.

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