Opportunity Information: Apply for L18AS00075
The funding opportunity titled "BLM-CO Strengthening Partnerships for Wildlife Partnerships and Habitat Management" (Funding Opportunity Number L18AS00075) is a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Colorado notice stating the agency's intent to make a single cooperative agreement award without full and open competition. It falls under the Natural Resources activity category (CFDA 15.247), is classified as a discretionary opportunity, and is structured specifically as a Cooperative Agreement, which typically indicates a project where BLM expects to have substantial involvement in planning, coordination, or implementation alongside the recipient.
A key point of this notice is that it is not a standard competitive grant solicitation. Instead, it functions as a public notification and justification for a non-competitive, single-source award. BLM Colorado bases this approach on Department of the Interior policy (505 DM 2), which requires a written rationale whenever an award is made without competition. Under that policy, the agency must explain why competition is not practical and show that the award fits one of the allowable exceptions. In this case, BLM Colorado relies on the "Unique Qualifications" exception, meaning the proposed recipient has authorities or capabilities that other potential applicants do not.
BLM identifies Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), within the State of Colorado Department of Natural Resources, as uniquely qualified due to statutory authority under Colorado law. The notice cites Colorado Revised Statute 33-1-101, which charges CPW with protecting, preserving, enhancing, and managing wildlife in Colorado for public benefit. It further emphasizes that CPW is the only agency (and/or its agents) with the authority to manage and monitor wildlife in coordination with federal partners, and that wildlife in Colorado that is not legally privately owned is considered property of the state. Because activities involving wildlife management, monitoring, and handling are tightly governed by state law and commission rules, BLM argues that CPW is effectively the only appropriate entity to carry out these specific wildlife-related activities on BLM-administered public lands within Colorado in a way that is legally authorized and operationally credible.
From a funding and award logistics standpoint, the opportunity lists an award ceiling of $150,000, with an expectation of one award. Eligible applicants are limited to state governments, aligning with the stated intent to award to the State of Colorado through CPW rather than opening the project to universities, nonprofits, local governments, or private entities. The original closing date shown is 2018-08-23, and the posting (creation) date is 2018-07-23, which reflects the timing of the public notice rather than a typical application window aimed at generating multiple proposals.
Overall, the announcement is best understood as BLM Colorado documenting and publicly posting its intention to fund a specific wildlife partnership and habitat management effort through CPW using a cooperative agreement, and explaining that the lack of competition is justified because CPW holds unique legal authority and responsibility for wildlife management in Colorado that other organizations cannot replicate.Apply for L18AS00075
- The Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BLM-CO Strengthening Partnerships for Wildlife Partnerships and Habitat Management" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.247.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2018-07-23.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2018-08-23. (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 $150,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments.
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