[Federal Register: July 2, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 127)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Program Evaluation Monitoring System; Training and Technical
Assistance
Announcement Type: Competitive Supplement.
Funding Opportunity Number: PA 04019 Supplement.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.939.
Key Dates:
Application Deadline: August 2, 2004.
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Authority: This program is authorized under Sections 301(a) and
317(k)(2) of the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. 241 and 42
U.S.C. 247b(k)(2).
Purpose: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
announces the availability of funds for one cooperative agreement for
Focus Area 2 under Program Announcement 04019, Capacity Building
Assistance (CBA) to strengthen interventions for HIV prevention by the
provision of technical assistance and training that improves the
capacity of community-based organizations (CBOs) and health departments
(HDs) to use a program evaluation monitoring system designed for HIV
prevention interventions targeting high-risk racial/ethnic minority
individuals of unknown serostatus, including pregnant women, and people
of color who are living with HIV/AIDS and their partners. These funds
are specifically intended to develop and implement a national
integrated program evaluation monitoring system (PEMS) technical
assistance and training for CBOs in the evaluation of their HIV
prevention interventions targeting high risk seronegatives and HIV-
positive racial/ethnic minority individuals.
This program addresses the ``Healthy People 2010'' focus area of
HIV infection, CDC's Government Performance and Results Act Performance
Plan, the goals of CDC's HIV Prevention Strategic Plan through 2005 at
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/partners/psp.htm and Advancing HIV Prevention: New Strategies for a Changing Epidemic at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5215.pdf.
Measurable outcomes of the program will be in alignment with one
(or more) of the following performance goal(s) for the National Center
for HIV, STD and TB Prevention:
1. Strengthen the capacity to develop and implement effective HIV
prevention interventions.
2. Increase the proportion of HIV infected individuals who know
they are infected.
3. Increase the proportion of HIV infected people who are linked to
appropriate prevention, care, and treatment services.
4. Decrease the number of persons at high risk for acquiring or
transmitting HIV infection.
Priority funding considerations require the applicant to submit an
application that includes a plan to enhance the ability of CBOs funded
under program announcement 04064 to implement and maintain their PEMS,
by delivering training and technical assistance. No other application
preference factors will be applied to the review and selection process.
The plan must address each of the following performance goals:
Strengthen the capacity of community based organizations
and health departments to develop and implement effective HIV
prevention interventions by training them to use a monitoring system
that provides feedback data for program improvement and modification.
Increase the proportion of HIV infected individuals who
know they are infected by training community based organizations and
health departments to collect client-level data through a monitoring
system that allows tracking and referral elements to be gathered.
Increase the proportion of HIV infected people who are
linked to appropriate prevention, care, and treatment services by
training community based organizations and health departments to
effectively use the tracking and referral capabilities of a national
monitoring system.
Decrease the number of persons at high risk for acquiring
or transmitting HIV infection by training community based organizations
and health departments to assess data collected by a monitoring system
for prevention program improvement.
Applications must ensure quality programming and measurement of
progress based on core performance indicators specific to Focus Area 2
through:
1. Measuring the proportion of CDC-funded CBOs receiving program
evaluation monitoring system training.
2. Measuring the proportion of CDC-funded health departments
receiving program evaluation monitoring system training.
3. Measuring the proportion of CBOs that report agreement with the
timeliness in completion of program evaluation monitoring system
technical assistance and training.
4. Measuring the proportion of health departments that report
agreement with the timeliness in completion of program evaluation
monitoring system technical assistance and training.
5. Measuring the proportion of CBO and health department technical
assistance and training action plans completed according to scheduled
delivery in a timely manner.
6. Measuring the proportion of CBOs that report agreement that
program evaluation monitoring system technical assistance or training
met their needs.
7. Measuring the proportion of health departments that report
agreement that program evaluation monitoring system technical
assistance or training met their needs.
8. Measuring the proportion of CDC-funded CBOs, by racial/ethnic
minority population served, receiving program evaluation monitoring
system needs assessments.
Applicants process objectives and activities considered responsive
to Focus Area 2 that must be addressed in the program plan are:
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a. Provision of ongoing program evaluation monitoring system
technical assistance and training for CBOs in the evaluation of
effective HIV prevention interventions for high risk seronegatives and
HIV-positive racial/ethnic minority individuals using the PEMS
software.
b. Provision of program evaluation monitoring system technical
assistance and training that measures the diffusion of effective
behavioral interventions, including training, cultural adaptation of
curricula, and promotion of ``boxed'' interventions from CDC.
c. Provision of program evaluation monitoring system technical
assistance and training that measures the expected outcomes of regional
consultant pool capacity building assistance activities.
d. Provision of program evaluation monitoring system technical
assistance and training for CBOs and health departments to help them
deliver effective and efficient prevention interventions.
These activities must be conducted in collaboration with the CDC,
Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. These activities may benefit from
collaboration with Deloitte and ORC/MACRO, and other contractors
working to ensure that CBOs have the skills and access to technical
assistance necessary to implement and maintain PEMS.
Activities: Specific activities that must be conducted by
applicants are as follows:
A. Use of logic modeling for program planning and conducting
program evaluation monitoring system technical assistance and training.
B. Inclusion of input from CBOs and health departments about the
proposed program evaluation monitoring system technical assistance and
training, including people living with HIV/AIDS.
C. Incorporation of cultural competency and linguistic and
educational appropriateness into all program evaluation monitoring
system technical assistance and training.
D. Collaboration with CDC, CDC-funded CBA and Technical Assistance
(TA) providers, and contractors to plan and deliver program evaluation
monitoring system technical assistance and training that is (1)
consistent with CDC expectations (as provided in other trainings for
grantees); and (2) to avoid duplication of services (as provided by
other contractors).
E. Undertake a systems approach in the delivery of a nationally
structured program evaluation monitoring system technical assistance
and training.
F. Implement a plan for developing and maintaining ongoing
relationships with CBOs and health departments.
G. Develop protocols that respond to reactive requests for program
evaluation monitoring system technical assistance and training
following procedures provided by CDC.
H. Refer all other capacity building assistance requests, which
fall outside of program evaluation monitoring system technical
assistance and training to the CDC capacity building assistance
coordinator for appropriate assignment.
I. Participate in a CDC-coordinated capacity building assistance
network to enhance communication, coordination, cooperation, and
training.
J. Identify the internal training needs of program evaluation
monitoring system technical assistance and training program and staff.
K. Implement a quality assurance strategy that ensures the delivery
of high quality program evaluation monitoring system technical
assistance and training services.
L. Develop a strategy for marketing program evaluation monitoring
system technical assistance and training services.
M. Report planned program evaluation monitoring system technical
assistance and training events to the Capacity Building Branch (CBB)
Training Calendar for dissemination to CBOs and health departments to
be provided by CDC.
N. Facilitate the dissemination of information about program
evaluation monitoring system through peer-to-peer interactions,
meetings, workshops, conferences, and communications with CDC project
officers.
In a cooperative agreement, CDC staff is substantially involved in
the program activities, above and beyond routine grant monitoring.
CDC Activities for this program are as follows:
A. Providing consultation and technical assistance in designing,
planning, developing, operating, and evaluating activities (such as
progress reporting, submitting information for the training calendar)
based on CDC's standards and expectations. CDC may provide consultation
and technical assistance both directly from CDC and indirectly through
prevention partners, such as health departments, national and regional
minority partners, CBA partners, trainers, contractors, and other
national organizations.
B. Monitoring the performance of program and fiscal activities
through progress reports, data reporting, site visits, conference
calls, and compliance with federally mandated requirements, such as
protection of client privacy.
C. Assisting in the development of collaborative efforts with state
and local health departments, HIV prevention community planning groups,
CBOs that receive direct funding from CDC, and other federally
supported organizations providing HIV/AIDS services.
D. Conducting an overall evaluation of the program.
II. Award Information
Type of Award: Competitive Supplement to existing Cooperative
Agreement. CDC involvement in this program is listed in the Activities
Section above.
Fiscal Year Funds: 2004.
Approximate Total Funding: $1,000,000.
Approximate Number of Awards: 1.
Approximate Award: $1,000,000 (This amount is for the first budget
period, and pending availability of funds, each of the subsequent four
periods until project end.).
Floor of Award Range: None.
Ceiling of Award Range: $1,000,000.
Anticipated Award Date: July 15, 2004.
Budget Period Length: Budget periods will coincide with budget
periods for PA04019 funding. The current budget period ends March 31,
2005. All subsequent budget periods will be 12 months in length.
Project Period Length: Four years, eight months.
Throughout the project period, CDC's commitment to continuation of
awards will be conditioned on the availability of funds, evidence of
satisfactory progress by the recipient (as documented in required
reports), and the determination that continued funding is in the best
interest of the Federal Government.
III. Eligibility Information
III.1. Eligible Applicants
Eligibility is restricted to funded organizations under Program
Announcement 04019 who currently have received awards serving African
American, Latino/Hispanic, Asian and Pacific Islander, or American
Indian/Alaska Native HIV prevention providers and stakeholders in Focus
Area 2, Strengthening HIV Prevention Interventions.
III.2. Cost Sharing or Matching
Matching funds are not required for this program.
III.3. Other
If you request a funding amount greater than the total funding
amount, your application will not be eligible for review. You will be
notified that you did not meet the submission requirements.
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Note: Title 2 of the United States Code Section 1611 states that
an organization described in Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal
Revenue Code that engages in lobbying activities is not eligible to
receive Federal funds constituting an award, grant, or loan.
IV. Application and Submission Information
IV.1. Address To Request Application Package
To apply for this funding opportunity use application form PHS
5161. Forms are available on the CDC Web site, at the following
Internet address: http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/forminfo.htm.
If you do not have access to the Internet, or if you have
difficulty accessing the forms online, you may contact the CDC
Procurement and Grants Office Technical Information Management Section
(PGO-TIM) staff at: 770-488-2700. Application forms can be mailed to
you.
IV.2. Content and Form of Submission
Application: You must include a project narrative with your
application forms. Your narrative must be submitted in the following
format:
Maximum number of pages: 12 pages (excluding budget,
appendices and attachments). If your narrative exceeds the page limit,
only the first 12 pages which are within the page limit will be
reviewed.
Font size: 12 point unreduced.
Single spaced.
Paper size: 8.5 by 11 inches.
Page margin size: One-inch.
Printed only on one side of page.
Held together only by rubber bands or metal clips; not
bound in any other way.
Your narrative should address activities to be conducted over the
entire project period, and must include the following items in the
order listed:
A. Abstract
Provide a one-page abstract summarizing your proposed activities
for the next 8 months (August through March). Include a description of
your overall strategy or approach to accomplish the goals and
activities of this supplemental announcement.
B. Proposed Plan
1. Describe your specific plan for accomplishing the goals and
activities of this supplemental announcement. Include objectives for
all the activities listed under the ``Purpose'' section. List specific,
time-phased, realistic and measurable objectives.
2. Describe program activities designed to meet proposed
objectives, indicate the approximate dates by which activities will be
accomplished, and identify program staff responsible for conducting
activities. You must provide activities for all of your proposed
objectives.
3. List and describe the evaluation experts or doctoral students
and CDC and other agency staff whom you intend to partner with to
conduct the activities identified in this supplemental announcement.
4. Describe relationships proposed for these (listed in
3.) and any additional collaboration with CBAs or consultants
proposed.
C. Plan of Evaluation
Outline your plan for evaluation (including timeline) and summarize
how this strategy will be quality assured and evaluated. Identify
process and outcome objectives and describe the methods that will be
used to determine whether these objectives have been met.
You are required to have a Dun and Bradstreet Data Universal
Numbering System (DUNS) number to apply for a grant or cooperative
agreement from the Federal government. The DUNS number is a nine-digit
identification number, which uniquely identifies business entities.
Obtaining a DUNS number is easy and there is no charge. To obtain a
DUNS number, access http://www.dunandbradstreet.com or call 1-866-705-5711.
For more information, see the CDC Web site at: http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/pubcommt.htm.
If your application form does not have a
DUNS number field, please write your DUNS number at the top of the
first page of your application, and/or include your DUNS number in your
application cover letter.
Additional information may be included in the application
appendices. The appendices will not be counted toward the narrative
page limit. This additional information includes:
Include the following: (1) Memoranda of intent, agreement, or
letters of support from collaborators, and (2) letters of support from
community-based HIV prevention projects or other CBA providers as
appropriate.
IV.3. Submission Dates and Times
Application Deadline Date: August 2, 2004.
Explanation of Deadlines: Applications must be received in the CDC
Procurement and Grants Office by 4 p.m. Eastern Time on the deadline
date. If you send your application by the United States Postal Service
or commercial delivery service, you must ensure that the carrier will
be able to guarantee delivery of the application by the closing date
and time. If CDC receives your application after closing due to: (1)
Carrier error, when the carrier accepted the package with a guarantee
for delivery by the closing date and time, or (2) significant weather
delays or natural disasters, you will be given the opportunity to
submit documentation of the carrier's guarantee. If the documentation
verifies a carrier problem, CDC will consider the application as having
been received by the deadline.
This program announcement is the definitive guide on application
format, content, and deadlines. It supersedes information provided in
the application instructions. If your application does not meet the
deadline above, it will not be eligible for review, and will be
discarded. You will be notified that you did not meet the submission
requirements.
If you have a question about the receipt of your application, first
contact your courier. If you still have a question, contact the PGO-TIM
staff at: 770-488-2700. Before calling, please wait two to three days
after the application deadline. This will allow time for applications
to be processed and logged.
IV.4. Intergovernmental Review of Applications
Your application is subject to Intergovernmental Review of Federal
Programs, as governed by Executive Order (EO) 12372. This order sets up
a system for state and local governmental review of proposed federal
assistance applications. You should contact your state single point of
contact (SPOC) as early as possible to alert the SPOC to prospective
applications, and to receive instructions on your state's process.
Click on the following link to get the current SPOC list: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/grants/spoc.html
.
IV.5. Funding Restrictions
Funding restrictions, which must be taken into account while
writing your budget are as follows:
Submit an original and two copies of the Standard Form
424A and a detailed budget that includes line item details, itemization
of unit cost breakdowns, and justifications. Please utilize the
enclosed Budget guidelines for direction. Break all budget line items
down to the level of detail proscribed in the guidelines.
If you are requesting indirect costs in your budget, you
must include a copy of your indirect cost rate agreement. If your
indirect cost rate is a provisional rate, the agreement must be less
than 12 months of age.
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Guidance for completing your budget can be found on the CDC Web
site, at the following Internet address: http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/budgetguide.htm
.
IV.6. Other Submission Requirements
Application Submission Address: Submit the original and two hard
copies of your application by mail or express delivery service to:
Technical Information Management-PA 04019 Supplement, CDC
Procurement and Grants Office, 2920 Brandywine Road, Atlanta, GA 30341.
Applications may not be submitted electronically at this time.
V. Application Review Information
V.1. Criteria
You are required to provide measures of effectiveness that will
demonstrate the accomplishment of the various identified objectives of
the cooperative agreement. Measures of effectiveness must relate to the
performance goals stated in the ``Purpose'' section of this
announcement. Measures must be objective and quantitative, and must
measure the intended outcome. These measures of effectiveness must be
submitted with the application and will be an element of evaluation.
Your application will be evaluated against the following criteria:
(1) The extent to which the applicant's overall strategy and
specific plan is likely to accomplish the goals and activities of this
supplemental announcement. (30 points).
(2) The extent to which the proposed objectives are specific,
measurable, realistic, time-phased and consistent with the goals and
activities of this supplemental announcement (25 points).
(3) The extent to which the applicant's proposed plan expands or
enhances the existing Focus Area 2 activities funded under program
announcement 04019 (15 points).
(4) The extent to which the applicant describes and documents
support and intended collaboration from evaluation experts and other
evaluation contractors as appropriate (15 points).
(5) The extent to which the evaluation plan will measure the
achievement of program objectives and monitor the implementation of
proposed activities (15 points).
(6) Budget (not scored). The extent to which the budget is
reasonable, itemized, clearly justified, and consistent with the
intended use of funds.
V.2. Review and Selection Process
An objective review panel will evaluate your application according
to the criteria listed above. A technical review of each application,
listing strengths, weaknesses, and recommendations, will be conducted
by a content expert from the Program Evaluation and Research Branch,
Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. This technical review will be provided
to objective panel reviewers as an optional technical source of
information to be considered during the scoring phase of the objective
review process. The highest ranked application from the objective
review process will be recommended to the Capacity Building Branch,
Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention for supplemental award.
VI. Award Administration Information
VI.1. Award Notices
If your application is to be funded, you will receive a Notice of
Grant Award (NGA) from the CDC Procurement and Grants Office. The NGA
shall be the only binding, authorizing document between the recipient
and CDC. The NGA will be signed by an authorized Grants Management
Officer, and mailed to the recipient fiscal officer identified in the
application.
Unsuccessful applicants will receive notification of the results of
the application review by mail.
VI.2. Administrative and National Policy Requirements
45 CFR Part 74 or Part 92
For more information on the Code of Federal Regulations, see the
National Archives and Records Administration at the following Internet
address: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html.
The following additional requirements apply to this project:
AR-4 HIV/AIDS Confidentiality Provisions
AR-5 HIV Program Review Panel Requirements
AR-7 Executive Order 12372
AR-8 Public Health System Reporting Requirements
AR-9 Paperwork Reduction Act Requirements
AR-10 Smoke-Free Workplace Requirements
AR-11 Healthy People 2010
AR-12 Lobbying Restrictions
AR-14 Accounting System Requirements
AR-15 Proof of Non-Profit Status
AR-16 Security Clearance Requirement
Additional information on these requirements can be found on the
CDC Web site at the following Internet address: http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/ARs.htm
.
VI.3. Reporting Requirements
The reporting requirements will be on a trimester schedule (every 4
months). Awardee will be required to submit an original, plus two
copies of three reports during the budget year as follows:
1. Initial progress report (within or on 30 days after the
completion of the first 4 months of the budget period).
2. Interim progress report (within or on 30 days after the
completion of the 8 month of the budget period), this report will also
serve as the continuation application for determining satisfactory
progress for the current year and funding for the next budget year, and
must contain the following elements: (a) Current Budget Period
Activities Objectives; (b) Current Budget Period Financial Progress;
(c) New Budget Period Program Proposed Activity Objectives; (d)
Detailed Line-Item Budget and Justification; and (e) Additional
Requested Information.
3. Final progress report (within or on 30 days after the completion
of the 12 month of the budget period).
4. Financial status report, no more than 90 days after the end of
the budget period.
5. Final financial and performance reports, no more than 90 days
after the end of the project period.
VII. Agency Contacts
For general questions about this announcement, contact: Technical
Information Management Section, CDC Procurement and Grants Office, 2920
Brandywine Road, Atlanta, GA 30341, Telephone: 770-488-2700.
For program technical assistance, contact: Keith Yamaguchi, Project
Officer, Capacity Building Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, CDC
National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS
E-40, Atlanta, GA 30333, Telephone: (404) 639-3858, e-mail:
kxy1@cdc.gov.
For budget assistance, contact: Betty Vannoy, Grants Management
Specialist, CDC Procurement and Grants Office, 2920 Brandywine Road,
Atlanta, GA 30341, Telephone: (770) 488-2897, e-mail: bbv9@cdc.gov.
Dated: June 28, 2004.
Alan A. Kotch,
Acting Director, Procurement and Grants Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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