Today we face new health security threats that require breakthrough solutions. ASPR under HHS has charged
BARDA
with launching
DRIVe
to accelerate innovations, and improve the availability of transformative countermeasures to protect Americans from natural and intentional health security threats.
DRIVe is seeking abstracts for efforts to develop revolutionary health security products, technologies and innovations in order to increase USG’s capability and capacity to respond to national security health threats. DRIVe seeks unconventional approaches that are outside the mainstream, challenge assumptions, require multi-disciplinary teaming, and have the potential to radically change established practice, lead to extraordinary outcomes, and create entirely new fields. Specifically excluded is research or innovations that primarily result in incremental improvements to the existing state of the art.
The projects awarded under this DRIVe EZ-BAA might be at varying stages of technological readiness and prototype development. DRIVe is interested in projects that span the entire development spectrum and are hyper-focused on the specific Areas of Interest (AOI). Offerors may propose feasibility demonstration, non-clinical development, prototype and process development, formulation, engineering, fabrication, model development, data science and development of novel algorithms, descriptive clinical studies, regulatory activities, etc.
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for areas of Interest (AOI).
DRIVe EZ-BAA Pre-proposal Teleconference
A Pre-proposal teleconference will be held on June 22, 2018, at 2:00 P.M. EDT
.
This meeting is designed to address any questions associated with the application process. Applicants can visit
www.drive.hhs.gov
to obtain information on the Pre-proposal teleconference.
Submission Process: EZ-BAA DRIVe Portal Instructions
All applications in response to the DRIVe EZ-BAA must be submitted via
www.drive.hhs.gov
. Abstracts will not be accepted via physical mail nor email. The DRIVe portal is the only accepted means to submit an abstract in response to the EZ-BAA. The DRIVe portal is estimated to be made available starting June-July 2018, with notification of any change to this solicitation posted via
www.drive.hhs.gov
and FedBizOps.
IMPORTANT
: Offerors will be required to apply for an application portal account. This account can be requested via
www.drive.hhs.gov
, and following the applicable p
rompts. The account process is simple but may take up to one business week to complete. Upon receipt of an account, the Offeror logs in using the prescribed two-factor authentication method and will be prompted to enter a series of basic information about their organization, enter their abstract and other supporting information if applicable.
Failure to submit the application on time due to late registration will result in DRIVe not accepting the application. The EZ-BAA will expire on May 31, 2019. In order for an Offeror to be considered for an on-time submission, the Offeror must submit their abstract at least one week prior to the anticipated end date of May 31, 2019.
IMPORTANT
: The EZ-BAA end date is May 31, 2019 the final submission for abstracts will be no later than May 24, 2019.
