Integration and Coordination Center for the Common Fund Data Ecosystem (U54 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Background
The purpose of this FOA is to invite applications for an Integration and Coordination Center (ICC) for the Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) that will help to build internal cohesion within the program. Award(s) made through this FOA will support CFDE by integrating relevant Common Fund (CF) programs within CFDE, coordinating across other CFDE centers, helping CF programs develop data sustainability plans, and ensuring continuous improvement through an annual evaluation program. The awardee(s) will work collaboratively with each other and other participating components of the CFDE to integrate and coordinate activities across the ecosystem. The end products of CFDE will be a thriving ecosystem that enables the research community to reuse CF data and resources for discoveries and new purposes.

Grant Details
The ICC responsibilities include providing administrative, coordination, and project management support for three primary cores: an Administrative Core, an Evaluation Core, and a Sustainability Core.

The Administrative Core will ensure internal cohesion of the CFDE ecosystem by developing and maintaining a comprehensive project management plan, organizing and administering meetings, liaising with nascent and existing CF programs, and integrating interrelated tasks being performed by different members of the CFDE ecosystem.

The Evaluation Core will perform an annual evaluation of CFDE that assesses the program's progress against programmatic goals, establishes evaluation metrics, gathers necessary metrics, produces an annual report, provides advice based on findings, and issues recommendations.

The Sustainability Core will work with individual CF programs to develop sustainability plans for program data and resources upon program sunsetting, create resources for all CF programs to leverage for sustainability planning, including a catalog of available public repositories as well as best practices and policies for managing, storing, and sharing data.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants include higher education institutions, nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS status (other than institutions of higher education), for-profit organizations (including small businesses), local governments, state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, Indian/Native American tribal governments (federally recognized), eligible agencies of the federal government, U.S. territory or possession. Foreign institutions are not eligible to apply.

Period of Performance
The maximum project period is five years.

Grant Value
NIH Common Fund intends to fund one award corresponding to a total of $1,500,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $2,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2025 through 2028. Future year amounts will depend on annual appropriations.