Who can apply:
Current MIECHV recipients, as of March 11, 2021 (the date of the enactment of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021), are eligible to apply for HRSA-22-102: MIECHV Innovation Award Track Two - COVID-19-Related Data/Technology Innovations. ARP identifies additional eligibility requirements. Specifically, to be eligible to receive ARP funds:
• Recipients must establish modifications to contracts and other agreements with LIAs/subrecipients as necessary to ensure that during the period of performance:
o Funding or staffing levels of a funded local implementing agency (LIA) will not be reduced on account of reduced enrollment in the program.
o Recipients will ensure coordination with local diaper banks when using funds to provide emergency supplies to eligible families, to the extent practicable.
• Recipients must reaffirm that, in conducting the program, the recipient will focus on priority populations.32
Applicants must not submit an application with a budget request exceeding $2,000,000 for a single eligible applicant to develop, implement, and evaluate an innovation.
However, as noted above, if the proposal reflects a collaboration of two or more eligible entities (wherein one eligible entity, as the applicant and potential funding recipient, proposes to receive and expend grant funding for work performed, in whole or in part, through a subaward by contract with one or more other eligible entities to develop, implement, and evaluate an innovation applicable to all the entities), the applicant may submit an application with a budget request that does not exceed $4,000,000. Applicants must ensure that the necessary relationships, legal agreements (including data rights), and infrastructure are already in place across recipients to facilitate effective partnerships if submitting a proposal reflecting a collaboration. In this case, only one eligibile entity should submit an application and should indicate which additional eligible entities they propose to collaborate with through subawards.