Opportunity Information: Apply for PM PMWRA 17 048
The grant opportunity titled 17.PMWRA.Colombia.HMA.NOFO is a U.S. Department of State funding solicitation issued by the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement (PM/WRA). It supports humanitarian mine action in Colombia during fiscal year 2017, with a focus on humanitarian demining activities intended to reduce the threat of landmines and other explosive hazards to civilians and help restore safe access to land and infrastructure. The opportunity is listed as a discretionary grant program (CFDA 19.800) and is structured to allow multiple awards rather than a single recipient.
Funding under this notice is capped at a total cumulative amount of up to USD 11 million across all awards. While the notice anticipates making more than one award, it does not specify the exact number of expected awards in the provided data. Applications were due by October 8, 2017, and the notice was created on July 27, 2017, indicating a relatively short proposal window typical of operational humanitarian programming.
A key feature of this solicitation is that the geographic locations for demining work had already been assigned or "tasked" to specific operators, meaning applicants were not proposing new areas of work from scratch. Instead, submissions were expected to compete against one another based on how well they could deliver required outcomes within those predefined tasking parameters. In practical terms, that makes the proposal evaluation less about selecting where to work and more about selecting which organizations can execute the work most effectively and efficiently under the stated requirements.
The selection criteria emphasize cost effectiveness as the most heavily weighted factor in funding decisions. That implies applicants needed to present a clear, credible, and detailed budget tied tightly to outputs and outcomes, demonstrate efficient operational plans, and show that proposed costs were reasonable for the level of impact, safety, compliance, and technical performance required in humanitarian demining. Although the notice references additional goals, objectives, and technical requirements being detailed elsewhere in the full application instructions, the summary provided makes it clear that PM/WRA intended to compare proposals on value for money in addition to technical capability.
Eligibility is broad and includes public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, U.S.-based nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status, nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education), and other eligible entities. The notice also explicitly references public international organizations (PIOs) and foreign public entities (FPEs), signaling that non-U.S. governmental or intergovernmental implementers could be considered alongside nonprofit and academic applicants, depending on how the full eligibility rules were written in the complete announcement.
Overall, this opportunity represents a targeted PM/WRA mine action funding round for Colombia in FY2017, designed to support operational humanitarian demining through multiple grants, with awards collectively not exceeding USD 11 million. The competitive edge for applicants was expected to come from demonstrating strong technical execution paired with especially convincing cost effectiveness, since the program locations were already defined and proposals would be evaluated primarily on the efficiency and credibility of implementation plans and budgets.Apply for PM PMWRA 17 048
- The Bureau of Political-Military Affairs - WRA in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "17.PMWRA.Colombia.HMA.NOFO" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.800.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2017-07-27.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-10-08. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $11,000,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others.
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