CDC Pre-Solicitation: FY2025 National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Mine Safety and Health Research Broad Agency Announcement

Notice ID: BAANIOSHCDC2025

**SOLICITATION ID: When the Solicitation is published, it will be under 75D301-25-R-00072**

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) intends to issue a Fiscal Year 2025 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Applied Research in reference to the Development and Demonstration of Mine Safety and Health Technology.  This pre-solicitation notice is intended for informational purposes only and does not commit the Government to make an award or to pay for white paper or proposal preparation expenses generated by potential offerors in response to this announcement.

TheGovernment anticipates the following Area(s) of interest will be included in the solicitation:

Prior BAA solicitations included focus areas relating to a smaller, lighter, more ergonomic, and more economical version of the current continuous personal dust monitor for respirable coal dust and a similar real-time dust monitoring unit to detect respirable crystalline silica dust applicable to all industry segments. While regulatory compliance currently requires mass-based measurement, NIOSH believes there is a market for units measuring coal dust, silica, or both, that are low enough in cost that they can either be issued to every miner to provide near real-time results and allow miners to identify elevated dust/silica levels and take immediate corrective action to prevent overexposure or be routinely used to evaluate the efficacy of engineering controls to protect the workforce. In addition, the new silica rule by MSHA (Federal Register 28218, Vol. 89, No. 76, April 18, 2024 “Lowering Miners’ Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica and Improving Respiratory Protection”) may further increase the market for units that measure respirable silica dust, especially in real-time.

This continuing BAA focus area is included to stimulate potential research and development opportunities in this critical area …

Work that will be completed in 36 months or less is desired under this solicitation, but this is not a firm requirement; projects requiring up to 48 months will be considered.

• The Broad Agency Announcement will be made available via the Government Point of Entry (GPE) SAM.gov.
• The tentative date for Broad Agency Announcement issuance is planned for December 12, 2024. The tentative due date for receipt of Concept Papers is January 10, 2025.

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