Opportunity Information: Apply for NPSNOILAMR1701479
This notice describes the National Park Service's intent to make a single, non-competitive cooperative agreement award for professional museum collection support at two National Park Service units in Texas: Lake Meredith National Recreation Area (NRA) and Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument/NRA (as referenced in the notice). The purpose of the agreement is to ensure the professional care, day-to-day management, and conservation treatment of the parks' museum collections, meaning the preservation and stewardship of objects, archival materials, and related holdings that the parks are responsible for protecting.
The announcement is explicitly a "Notice of Intent to Award," not a request for applications or proposals. In practical terms, that means the National Park Service is not seeking competing submissions from other organizations. Instead, it is publishing a public notice, consistent with Department of the Interior policy (cited as 505 DM 2.12), that it plans to proceed with a non-competitive arrangement. These types of notices are commonly used when an agency has a documented justification for selecting a particular partner without competition, such as specialized expertise, established facilities, an existing working relationship, or unique local capacity relevant to the work.
The identified recipient is the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, which is the intended partner to carry out the collections-related work under a cooperative agreement. A cooperative agreement, as opposed to a standard grant, generally indicates that the federal agency expects to be substantially involved in the project during performance. That can include coordination on work planning, setting preservation priorities, reviewing and approving treatment approaches, ensuring compliance with federal museum standards and NPS policies, and aligning the work with park operational and resource stewardship needs.
From the funding metadata, the opportunity is categorized as discretionary and uses the cooperative agreement instrument type, with the activity category listed as "Other" (with details provided in the narrative rather than a standard program bucket). The CFDA (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance) number is 15.946, which corresponds to National Park Service assistance programs. Eligibility is listed as nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status, excluding institutions of higher education, which is consistent with the intended partner organization and also clarifies the general eligibility class even though the award is not open for competition.
Administrative details show the posting was created on August 21, 2017, with an original closing date of August 31, 2017. For notices like this, the "closing date" typically functions as the end of the public notice period rather than an application deadline, since no applications are being accepted. The announcement anticipates one award ("ExpectedAwards: 1"). The "AwardCeiling" is shown as 0, which usually indicates that a maximum funding amount was not provided in the public synopsis, not necessarily that the project has no funding. In many federal listings, a zero ceiling can be a placeholder when the specific award amount is determined internally, is being finalized, or is not disclosed in the announcement summary.
Overall, the grant opportunity is essentially a public transparency notice: the National Park Service is documenting that it intends to fund a single cooperative effort with the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum to support the preservation, management, and conservation of museum collections associated with Lake Meredith NRA and Alibates Flint Quarries NRA, with NPS involvement expected throughout the work due to the cooperative agreement structure.Apply for NPSNOILAMR1701479
- The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Professional care, management, and conservation of the parks museum collections." and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.946.
- This funding opportunity was created on Aug 21, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 31, 2017. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
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