Limited Competition for Cooperative Agreements to Support Navigators in Federally-facilitated and State Partnership Marketplaces | CA NAV 16 001

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The funding opportunity titled "Limited Competition for Cooperative Agreements to Support Navigators in Federally-facilitated and State Partnership Marketplaces" (Funding Opportunity Number: CA NAV 16 001) is a discretionary federal health funding opportunity administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), specifically through the Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) component. It is associated with CFDA number 93.332, which aligns it with CMS programs and activities that support consumer assistance and outreach functions connected to Health Insurance Marketplaces.

This opportunity uses a cooperative agreement as its funding instrument rather than a standard grant. In practical terms, that generally means CMS expects to have substantial involvement in the funded work, such as providing direction, technical assistance, coordination requirements, or closer federal oversight compared with a typical grant where the recipient has broader autonomy. The program focus is on supporting "Navigators" operating in Federally-facilitated Marketplaces (FFMs) and State Partnership Marketplaces. Navigators are typically organizations that help consumers understand their health coverage options, apply for coverage through the Marketplace, and connect to enrollment support, with an emphasis on providing fair, accurate, and impartial information to the public.

The announcement is labeled as a limited competition, which usually indicates that eligibility to apply may be restricted to certain entities (for example, prior awardees, specific categories of organizations, or those meeting particular criteria laid out in the full Funding Opportunity Announcement). At the same time, the summarized source fields list eligible applicants as "Unrestricted," which can appear contradictory on its face. The most reliable interpretation is that the detailed eligibility and any limitations are defined in the full Funding Opportunity Announcement, and applicants would need to consult that document to confirm whether the competition is truly open to all applicants or limited in a specific way (such as limited to existing Navigator grantees, a defined service area, or other eligibility constraints).

Key administrative details include an original closing date of August 8, 2016, and a creation date of July 8, 2016, reflecting a short application window typical of targeted, time-sensitive federal assistance announcements. The award ceiling is listed as 0 in the provided source data, which commonly indicates that a per-award maximum was not specified in the summarized record, was to be determined, or is only described inside the Funding Opportunity Announcement itself. The "ExpectedAwards" field is blank in the source data, meaning the public summary does not provide a clear count of how many awards CMS anticipated making under this specific notice.

The posted description in the summary record does not include programmatic details and instead instructs readers to refer to the Funding Opportunity Announcement. As a result, the specific requirements that usually matter most to applicants such as the scope of work, performance period, target populations, required deliverables, reporting expectations, evaluation measures, budget rules, and any special compliance obligations are not contained in the excerpted data. Anyone considering this opportunity would need the full announcement text to understand what activities are allowable, what geographic areas are covered, what level of federal involvement is expected under the cooperative agreement, and how CMS would evaluate and select applicants under this limited competition.

• The CMS-Consumer Information Insurance Oversight in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Limited Competition for Cooperative Agreements to Support Navigators in Federally-facilitated and State Partnership Marketplaces" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.332.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2016-07-08.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2016-08-08. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted.

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