Special Instructions 017 Issuance for Easy Broad Agency Announcement (EZ-BAA) BAA-20-100-SOL-0002

Special Instructions 017 was issued by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response on November 24, 2021 under Easy Broad Agency Announcement BAA-20-100-SOL-0002. The Special Instructions pause submissions for Area of Interest #6 "Beyond the Needle" while leaving the remaining eight areas of interest open for abstract submissions under various response due dates ranging from November 2021 through February 2023.

The Special Notice pauses Area of Interest #6 "Beyond the Needle" until further notice to allow BARDA to refine its scope and objectives. Interested parties must submit abstracts for the other eight areas of interest, including Infection Severity and Solving Sepsis, ReDirect, Bringing Laboratory Testing to the Home, Digital Health Tools for Pandemic Preparedness, NGS-based Agnostic Diagnostic for Respiratory RNA Virus Pathogens, Home-based Over-the-Counter Diagnostics for SARS-CoV-2 Detection, Enabling Technologies to Support Home-Based Diagnostics for SARS-CoV-2 Acute Infection, and Mitigating Long-term Effects of Respiratory Distress, by the specified due dates. Multiple awards are anticipated for partners able to advance pandemic preparedness and response through the development of diagnostics, vaccines, and other technologies. Awarded partners will be required to share any collected de-identified data to advance knowledge.