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The Funding Alternative quantity is SFOP0009268.
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Request for Statements of Curiosity: DRL Selling Human Rights and Accountability within the Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea)
I. Requested Aims for Statements of Curiosity
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) pronounces a Request for Statements of Curiosity (RSOI) from organizations all for submitting Statements of Curiosity (SOI) for applications that help the coverage goal to advance human rights and basic freedoms within the Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea).
PLEASE NOTE: DRL strongly encourages candidates to right away entry SAMS Domestic or www.grants.gov in an effort to acquire a username and password. For directions on tips on how to register with SAMS Home for the primary time, please discuss with the Proposal Submission Directions for Statements of Curiosity at: https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/programs-and-grants/.
The submission of a SOI is step one in a two-part course of. Candidates should first submit a SOI, which is a concise, 3-page idea observe designed to obviously talk a program concept and its goals earlier than the event of a full proposal software. The aim of the SOI course of is to permit candidates the chance to submit program concepts for DRL to judge previous to requiring the event of full proposal functions. Upon evaluation of eligible SOIs, DRL will invite chosen candidates to increase their concepts into full proposal functions.
This solicitation consists of 4 (4) classes beneath which candidates could submit SOIs. Organizations could submit not more than two (2) SOIs and just one (1) SOI per class. The applicant should explicitly establish the class for every SOI submitted. If a SOI could match inside a couple of class, the group should explicitly establish which class they decide is one of the best match for the work proposed. If a SOI doesn’t explicitly establish one of many beneath classes on the primary web page of the SOI, it might be deemed technically ineligible and might not be forwarded to the evaluation panel for consideration.
Candidates are extremely inspired to kind consortia and submit a mixed SOI. Nonetheless, one group ought to be designated because the lead applicant with the opposite members as sub-award companions.
FOSTERING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SERIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES AND TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION. The long-term purpose beneath this class is that North Koreans have improved human rights and basic freedoms and the North Korean authorities is held accountable for egregious human rights violations, together with transnational repression. Program goals beneath this class embrace: 1) the North Korean human rights neighborhood collectively and collaboratively engages worldwide stakeholders to extend momentum in direction of implementation of UN Fee of Inquiry (COI) report suggestions and accountability actions; governments and multilateral establishments take concrete steps and actions that increase alternatives for human rights monitoring and accountability in North Korea; and a pair of) governments and multilateral establishments more and more incorporate human rights abuses and crimes in opposition to humanity inside broader North Korean coverage growth and diplomatic engagements. Illustrative actions of initiatives proposed beneath this space may embrace:
- Collaborate and have interaction with the humanitarian and diplomatic communities to foster alternatives for observer entry to political prisons, labor camps, detention facilities, or different areas the place human rights violations and abuses are widespread.
- Implement secure and moral approaches to have interaction North Korean people vulnerable to compelled repatriation and harassment. This might embrace increasing documentation efforts and/or fostering collaboration between the North Korean human rights neighborhood and different human rights activists to strengthen collective regional and/or worldwide consciousness, accountability, and advocacy.
- Advocate to reinvigorate worldwide consideration and dedication to selling human rights enhancements within the DPRK. This might embrace, within the lead as much as the ten-year anniversary of the COI report, advocacy for a follow-on report that particulars up to date info and/or suggestions based mostly upon the newest decade of findings.
- Conduct documentation, investigations, and/or analysis that leverages open-source info to uncover perpetrators and element methods that perpetuate the egregious abuses dedicated by the DPRK authorities at house and overseas. This might embrace analysis that identifies perpetrators tied to human rights abuses that help North Korea’s illicit actions. Analysis ought to be coupled with focused advocacy efforts carried out in tandem with the human rights neighborhood.
- Work with the North Korean defector neighborhood to make use of documentation of human rights abuses to establish and implement survivor-centric and/or survivor-led approaches to fact telling, memorialization, and reparation, which might be complementary to on-going and future worldwide accountability efforts.
ADVANCING THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS. The long-term purpose of applications beneath this class is that North Korean ladies and women in all their variety face fewer violations of their human rights. Aims of applications beneath this class embrace: 1) governments and multilateral establishments take concerted actions to affect the North Korean authorities to satisfy its obligations beneath the Common Periodic Evaluation (UPR) and the United Nations Conference on the Elimination of all Types of Discrimination Towards Girls (CEDAW); and a pair of) governments and multilateral establishments promote accountability of North Korean officers for violations in opposition to ladies and women. Illustrative examples of initiatives proposed beneath this class embrace:
- Doc abuses in opposition to North Korean ladies and women to boost worldwide consciousness and advance advocacy and accountability efforts. Abuses may have occurred inside North Korea, abroad (e.g., throughout their time as abroad laborers), or through the defection course of. This should embrace efforts to attenuate re-traumatization of survivors.
- Assist civil society engagement in UPR and CEDAW reporting processes and focused advocacy to deal with gaps and shortcomings with the North Korean authorities’s implementation of obligations.
- Promote ladies’s management, participation, empowerment, and rights inside focused segments of the inhabitants in North Korea, reminiscent of amongst ladies entrepreneurs.
STRENGTHENING LABOR RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS. The long-term purpose of applications beneath this class is that North Koreans have elevated strategies for reporting labor rights violations and enhanced skill to help efforts to extend protections of labor rights. Aims beneath this class embrace: 1) governments and multilateral establishments taking concerted actions to affect the North Korean authorities to pursue Worldwide Labour Group (ILO) membership and/or take different concrete actions to enhance labor rights; and a pair of) labor advocacy and human rights organizations elevate problems with compelled labor to worldwide companies, together with these at present working inside North Korea’s Particular Financial Zones (SEZs), and encourage adherence to the UN Guiding Rules on Enterprise and Human Rights. Illustrative examples of initiatives proposed beneath this class embrace:
- Doc human rights abuses and poor circumstances confronted by employees inside North Korea and abroad to extend data of abuses and inform worldwide advocacy and engagement with governments and multilateral establishments.
- Conduct investigative reporting and/or analysis that leverages open-source info to element SEZs, together with the placement and growth of SEZs and knowledge on working circumstances, with a selected concentrate on items produced and indicators of compelled labor.
- Assist coordination amongst labor advocacy and human rights organizations to successfully leverage info on compelled labor to encourage worldwide companies to stick to the UN Guiding Rules on Enterprise and Human Rights.
- Assist alternatives to encourage consideration of ILO membership and foster consciousness elevating and dialogue on improved circumstances for employees and the abolishment of kid labor.
PROMOTING THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. The long-term purpose of applications beneath this class is that North Korean individuals with disabilities have elevated entry to rights and companies as enshrined in home and/or worldwide legal guidelines. The target of applications beneath this class is that governments and multilateral establishments take concerted actions to affect the North Korean authorities to satisfy its obligations beneath the UN Conference on the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities (CRPD). Illustrative actions of initiatives proposed beneath this space may embrace:
- Doc and elevate incapacity rights in worldwide advocacy and engagement with governments and multilateral establishments to encourage the inclusion of individuals with disabilities inside diplomatic efforts.
- Create sensible toolkits or manuals on varied disability-related points for humanitarian and growth practitioners based mostly on the CRPD and up to date info on the rights of individuals with disabilities within the DPRK.
To be eligible, all proposed initiatives should:
- Particularly point out the class to which the SOI is responding;
- Clearly define capability and technical experience in documentation, together with efforts to make sure new documentation initiatives aren’t duplicative of present analysis;
- Exhibit sturdy understanding of the working surroundings by articulating dangers to venture implementation, employees, and beneficiaries, and mitigation measures that could be taken;
- Floor documentation efforts and defector interviewers in Do No Hurt ideas, with measures to help interviewees with psychosocial companies to forestall re-traumatization; and
- Show a capability to localize venture actions by leveraging the experience of North Korean human rights organizations, activists, and defector communities.
Robust desire will likely be given to proposed initiatives that embrace partnership with South Korean organizations, entities, or people, together with these representing the North Korean defector neighborhood. Partnerships may embrace sub-grants to organizations; consultancies with people; focus teams and/or suggestions mechanisms with North Korean defectors or different consultants; or different technique of engagement. Defector interviews for documentation efforts aren’t thought-about partnerships. Reference to partnerships would exemplify that the first applicant has the context-specific data and experience to implement a tailor-made, secure strategy.
All applications ought to intention to have influence that results in reforms and will have the potential for sustainability past DRL sources. DRL’s desire is to keep away from duplicating previous efforts by supporting new and inventive approaches. This doesn’t exclude from consideration initiatives that enhance upon or increase present profitable initiatives in a brand new and complementary manner.
DRL is dedicated to advancing fairness and help for underserved and underrepresented communities. Packages ought to search methods for integration and inclusion of people/organizations/beneficiaries that may carry views based mostly on their faith, intercourse, incapacity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender id, gender expression, intercourse traits, nationwide origin, age, genetic info, marital standing, parental standing, being pregnant, political affiliation, or veteran’s standing. Packages ought to be demand-driven and regionally led to the extent doable.
To maximise the influence and sustainability of the award(s) that consequence(s) from this RSOI/NOFO, DRL reserves the fitting to execute a non-competitive continuation modification(s). Any non-competitive continuation is contingent on efficiency and availability of funds. A non-competitive continuation is just not assured; the Division of State reserves the fitting to train or not train the choice to difficulty non-competitive continuation modification(s).
Actions which might be not sometimes thought-about aggressive embrace, however aren’t restricted, to:
- The supply of huge quantities of humanitarian help;
- Purely tutorial exchanges or fellowships;
- Exterior exchanges or fellowships lasting longer than six months;
- Theoretical explorations of human rights or democracy points, together with initiatives aimed primarily at analysis and analysis that don’t incorporate coaching or capacity-building for native civil society;
- Micro-loans or related small enterprise growth initiatives.
II. Eligibility Data
Organizations submitting SOIs should meet the next standards:
- Be a U.S.- or foreign-based non-profit/non-governmental group (NGO), or a public worldwide group; or
- Be a personal, public, or state establishment of upper training; or
- Be a for-profit group or enterprise (noting there are restrictions on fee of charges and/or income beneath grants and cooperative agreements, together with these outlined in 48 CFR 30, “Price Accounting Requirements Administration”, and 48 CFR 31, “Contract Price Rules and Procedures”);
- Have present, or the capability to develop, energetic partnerships with thematic or in-country companions, entities, and related stakeholders together with personal sector associate and NGOs; and,
- Have demonstrable expertise administering profitable and ideally related applications. DRL reserves the fitting to request further background info on organizations that wouldn’t have earlier expertise administering federal awards. These candidates could also be topic to restricted funding on a pilot foundation.
Candidates could kind consortia and submit a mixed SOI. Nonetheless, one group ought to be designated because the lead applicant with the opposite members as sub-award companions.
DRL’s desire is to work with non-profit entities; nevertheless, there could also be some events when a for-profit entity is greatest suited. Purposes submitted by for-profit entities could also be topic to further evaluation following the panel choice course of. Moreover, the Division of State prohibits revenue to for-profit or industrial organizations beneath its help awards. Revenue is outlined as any quantity in extra of allowable direct and oblique prices. The allowability of prices incurred by industrial organizations is decided in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) at 48 CFR 30, Price Accounting Requirements Administration, and 48 CFR 31 Contract Price Rules and Procedures. Please see 2 CFR 200.307 for rules relating to program revenue.
DRL is dedicated to an anti-discrimination coverage in all of its applications and actions. DRL welcomes SOI submissions regardless of race, shade, faith, intercourse, gender id, gender expression, intercourse traits, sexual orientation, being pregnant, nationwide origin, incapacity, age, genetic info, marital standing, parental standing, political affiliation, veteran’s standing, or different standing. DRL requires all applications to be non-discriminatory and expects implementers to incorporate methods for nondiscrimination of people/organizations/beneficiaries.
Any applicant listed on the Excluded Events Record System within the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) (www.sam.gov) and/or has a present debt to the U.S. authorities is just not eligible to use for an help award in accordance with the OMB tips at 2 CFR 180 that implement Government Orders 12549 (3 CFR,1986 Comp., p. 189) and 12689 (3 CFR,1989 Comp., p. 235), “Debarment and Suspension.” Moreover, no entity or individual listed on the Excluded Events Record System in SAM.gov can take part in any actions beneath an award. All candidates are strongly inspired to evaluation the Excluded Events Record System in SAM.gov to make sure that no ineligible entity or individual is included of their software.
Organizations aren’t required to have a sound Distinctive Entity Identifier (UEI) quantity—previously known as a DUNS (Information Common Numbering System) quantity—and an energetic SAM.gov registration to use for this solicitation via SAMS Home. Nonetheless, if a SOI is accredited, these will must be obtained earlier than a corporation is ready to submit a full software. Due to this fact, we suggest beginning the method of acquiring a UEI and SAM.gov registration as quickly as doable. Please observe that there isn’t a price related to UEI or SAM.gov registration.
III. Software Necessities, Deadlines, and Technical Eligibility
All SOIs should conform to DRL’s posted Proposal Submission Directions (PSI) for Statements of Curiosity, as up to date in November 2022, obtainable at https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/programs-and-grants/.
Full SOI submissions should embrace the next:
- Accomplished and signed SF-424 and SF424B, as directed on SAMS Home or Grants.gov (please discuss with DRL’s PSI for SOIs for steering on finishing the SF-424); and,
- Program Assertion (to not exceed three (3) pages in Microsoft Phrase) that features:
- A desk itemizing:
- Title of the group;
- The goal nation/nations;
- The entire quantity of funding requested from DRL, complete quantity of cost-share (if any), and complete program quantity (DRL funds + cost-share); and,
- Program size;
- A synopsis of this system, together with a short assertion on how this system may have a demonstrated influence and have interaction related stakeholders. The SOI ought to establish native companions as applicable;
- A concise breakdown explicitly figuring out this system’s goals and the actions and anticipated outcomes that contribute to every goal; and,
- A quick description of the applicant(s) that demonstrates the applicant(s) experience and capability to implement this system and handle a U.S. authorities award.
- A desk itemizing:
Main organizations can submit two (2) SOIs in response to the RSOI, one per class. If an applicant chooses to submit a number of functions to this RSOI, it’s the duty of the applicant to display the competitiveness and uniqueness of every SOI. SOIs that request lower than $100,000 or greater than $1,250,000 could also be deemed technically ineligible.
Technically eligible SOIs are these which:
- Arrive electronically by way of SAMS Home or Grants.gov by 11:59 PM EST on January 23rd, 2023, beneath the announcement titled “DRL FY22 DPRK Human Rights and Accountability Packages – Statements of Curiosity,” funding alternative quantity SFOP0009268;
- Are in English; and,
- Heed all directions and don’t violate any of the rules acknowledged on this solicitation and the PSI for Statements of Curiosity.
For all SOI paperwork please guarantee:
- All pages are numbered;
- All paperwork are formatted to eight ½ x 11 paper; and,
- All paperwork are single-spaced, 12-point Occasions New Roman font, with 1-inch margins. Captions and footnotes could also be 10-point Occasions New Roman font. Font sizes in charts and tables will be reformatted to suit inside one web page width.
Grants.gov and SAMS Home routinely log the date and time an software submission is made, and the Division of State will use this info to find out whether or not an software has been submitted on time. Late functions are neither reviewed nor thought-about. Recognized system errors attributable to Grants.gov or SAMS Home (https://mygrants.service-now.com) which might be exterior of the applicant’s management will likely be reviewed on a case-by-case foundation. Candidates mustn’t anticipate a notification upon DRL receiving their software. DRL will not settle for SOIs submitted by way of e-mail, fax, the postal system, supply firms, or couriers. DRL strongly encourages all candidates to submit SOIs earlier than January 23rd, 2023 to make sure that the SOI has been obtained and is full.
IV. Evaluation and Choice Course of
DRL strives to make sure that every software receives a balanced analysis by a DRL evaluation panel. The Division’s Workplace of Acquisitions Administration (AQM) will decide technical eligibility for all SOI submissions. All technically eligible SOIs will then be reviewed in opposition to the identical 4 standards by a DRL evaluation panel: high quality of program concept, addressing limitations to equal participation, program planning, and talent to attain goals/institutional capability.
Moreover, the evaluation panel will consider how the SOI meets the solicitation request, U.S. overseas coverage objectives, and DRL’s general precedence wants. Panelists evaluation every SOI individually in opposition to the analysis standards, not in opposition to competing SOIs. To make sure all SOIs obtain a balanced analysis, the DRL evaluation panel will evaluation the primary web page of the SOI as much as the web page restrict and no additional. All panelists should signal non-disclosure agreements and battle of curiosity agreements.
Usually, the DRL evaluation panel consists of representatives from DRL coverage and program places of work. As soon as a SOI is accredited, chosen candidates will likely be invited to submit full proposal functions based mostly on their SOIs. Except directed in any other case by the group, DRL can also refer SOIs for doable consideration in different U.S. authorities associated funding alternatives.
The evaluation panel could present circumstances and/or suggestions on SOIs to reinforce the proposed program, which should be addressed by the group within the full proposal software. To make sure efficient use of restricted DRL funds, circumstances and suggestions could embrace requests to extend, lower, make clear, and/or justify prices and program actions.
DRL’s Entrance Workplace reserves the fitting to make a last dedication relating to all funding issues, pending funding availability.
Evaluation Standards
High quality of Program Concept
SOIs ought to be aware of this system framework and coverage goals recognized within the RSOI, applicable within the nation/regional context, and will exhibit originality, substance, precision, and relevance to DRL’s mission of selling human rights and democracy. Tasks ought to have the potential to have an instantaneous influence resulting in long-term, sustainable reforms. DRL prefers new approaches that don’t duplicate efforts by different entities. This doesn’t exclude from consideration initiatives that enhance upon or increase present profitable initiatives in a brand new and complementary manner. In nations the place related actions are already happening, an evidence ought to be supplied as to how new actions won’t duplicate or merely add to present actions and the way these efforts will likely be coordinated. SOIs that promote artistic approaches to acknowledged ongoing challenges are extremely inspired. DRL prioritizes venture proposals with inclusive approaches for advancing these rights.
Addressing Limitations to Equal Participation
DRL strives to make sure its initiatives advance the rights and uphold the dignity of all individuals. Because the U.S. authorities’s lead bureau devoted to selling democratic governance, DRL requests a programming strategy devoted to strengthening inclusive societies as a obligatory pillar of sturdy democracies. Discrimination, violence, inequity, and inequality concentrating on any members of society undermines collective safety and threatens democracy. DRL prioritizes inclusive and built-in program fashions that assess and handle the limitations to entry for people and teams based mostly on their race, ethnicity, faith, revenue, geography, gender id, sexual orientation, or incapacity. Candidates ought to describe how programming will influence all of its beneficiaries, together with help for underserved and underrepresented communities.
Program Planning
A powerful SOI will embrace a transparent articulation of how the proposed program actions and anticipated outcomes (each outputs and outcomes) contribute to particular program goals and the general program purpose. Aims ought to be formidable, but measurable, results-focused, and achievable in an inexpensive timeframe.
Capacity to Obtain Aims/Institutional Capability
SOIs ought to handle how this system will interact related stakeholders and will establish native companions as applicable. If native companions are recognized, candidates ought to describe the division of labor among the many applicant and any native companions. SOIs ought to display the group’s experience and former expertise in administering applications, ideally related applications concentrating on the requested program space or equally difficult environments.
For extra steering, please see DRL’s posted Proposal Submission Directions (PSI) for Statements of Curiosity, as up to date in November 2021, obtainable at https://www.state.gov/proposal-submission-instructions/.
V. Further Data
DRL won’t take into account functions that mirror any sort of help for any member, affiliate, or consultant of a chosen terrorist group. Please refer the hyperlink for International Terrorist Organizations: https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/. Venture actions whose direct beneficiaries are overseas militaries or paramilitary teams or people won’t be thought-about for DRL funding given function limitations on funding.
In accordance with Division of State coverage for terrorism, candidates are suggested that profitable passing of vetting to judge the chance that funds could profit terrorists or their supporters is a situation of award. If chosen for an award, candidates will likely be requested to submit info required by DS Type 4184, Danger Evaluation Data (hooked up to this solicitation) about their firm and its principal personnel. Vetting info can also be required for all sub-award efficiency on help awards recognized by the Division of State as presenting a threat of terrorist financing. Vetting info can also be requested for venture beneficiaries and contributors. Failure to submit info when requested, or failure to move vetting, could also be grounds for rejecting your proposal previous to award.
The Leahy Regulation prohibits Division overseas help funds from supporting overseas safety drive items if the Secretary of State has credible info that the unit has dedicated a gross violation of human rights. Per 22 USC §2378d(a) (2017), “No help shall be furnished beneath this chapter [FOREIGN ASSISTANCE] or the Arms Export Management Act [22 USC 2751 et seq.] to any unit of the safety forces of a overseas nation if the Secretary of State has credible info that such unit has dedicated a gross violation of human rights.” Restrictions could apply to any proposed help to police or different regulation enforcement. Amongst these, pursuant to part 620M of the International Help Act of 1961, as amended (FAA), no help supplied via this funding alternative could also be furnished to any unit of the safety forces of a overseas nation when there may be credible info that such unit has dedicated a gross violation of human rights. In accordance with the necessities of part 620M of the FAA, often known as the Leahy regulation, venture beneficiaries or contributors from a overseas authorities’s safety forces could must be vetted by the Division earlier than the availability of any help. If a proposed grant or cooperative settlement will present help to overseas safety forces or personnel, compliance with the Leahy Regulation is required.
Organizations ought to be conscious that DRL understands that some info contained in SOIs could also be thought-about delicate or proprietary and can make applicable efforts to guard such info. Nonetheless, organizations are suggested that DRL can’t assure that such info won’t be disclosed, together with pursuant to the Freedom of Data Act (FOIA) or different related statutes.
Organizations also needs to bear in mind that if in the end chosen for an award, DRL requires all recipients of overseas help funding to adjust to all relevant Division and Federal legal guidelines and rules, together with however not restricted to the next: The Uniform Administrative Necessities, Price Rules and Audit Necessities for Federal Awards set forth in 2 CFR Chapter 200 (Sub-Chapters A via F) shall apply to all non-Federal entities, aside from help awards to People and International Public Entities. Sub-Chapters A via E shall apply to all overseas organizations, and Sub-Chapters A via D shall apply to all U.S. and overseas for-profit entities. The applicant/recipient of the award and any sub-recipient beneath the award should adjust to all relevant phrases and circumstances, along with the reassurance and certifications made a part of the Discover of Award. The Division’s Commonplace Phrases and Situations will be considered at https://www.state.gov/about-us-office-of-the-procurement-executive/.
The knowledge on this solicitation and DRL’s PSI for SOIs, as up to date in November 2021, is binding and might not be modified by any DRL consultant. Explanatory info supplied by DRL that contradicts this language won’t be binding. Issuance of the solicitation and negotiation of SOIs or functions doesn’t represent an award dedication on the a part of the U.S. authorities. DRL reserves the fitting to scale back, revise, or improve proposal budgets in accordance with the wants of this system analysis necessities.
This solicitation will seem on www.grants.gov, SAMS Domestic (https://mygrants.servicenowservices.com), and DRL’s web site https://www.state.gov/statements-of-interest-requests-for-proposals-and-notices-of-funding-opportunity/.
Background Data on DRL and DRL Funding
DRL has the mission of selling democracy and defending human rights globally. DRL helps applications that uphold democratic ideas, help and strengthen democratic establishments, promote human rights, stop atrocities, fight and forestall violent extremism, and construct civil society around the globe. DRL sometimes focuses its work in nations with egregious human rights violations, the place democracy and human rights advocates are beneath stress, and the place governments are undemocratic or in transition.
Further background info on DRL and the human rights report will be discovered on https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-civilian-security-democracy-and-human-rights/bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/.
VI. Contact Data
SAMS Home Assist Desk:
For help with SAMS Home accounts and technical points associated to the system, please contact the ILMS assist desk by cellphone at +1 (888) 313-4567 (toll fees apply for worldwide callers) or via the Self Service on-line portal that may be accessed from https://mygrants.servicenowservices.com/. Buyer help is obtainable 24/7.
Please observe that establishing an account in SAMS Home could require the usage of smartphone for multi-factor authentication (MFA). If an applicant doesn’t have accessibility to a smartphone through the time of making an account, please contact the helpdesk and request directions on MFA for Home windows PC.
Grants.gov Helpdesk:
For help with Grants.gov accounts and technical points associated to utilizing the system, please name the Contact Middle at +1 (800) 518-4726 or e-mail support@grants.gov. The Contact Middle is obtainable 24 hours a day, seven days every week, besides federal holidays.
See https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/federal-holidays/ for a listing of federal holidays.
For technical questions associated to this solicitation, please contact DRL-EAP-Packages@state.gov.
Aside from technical submission questions, through the RSOI interval U.S. Division of State employees in Washington and abroad shall not focus on this competitors with candidates till the complete proposal evaluation course of has been accomplished and rejection and approval letters have been transmitted.