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BARDA DRIVe Easy Broad Agency Announcement

BARDA DRIVe EZ-BAA

Status

Open continuously

No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.

Always open
Amount
Not published

Short-form contracting mechanism designed to fund early-stage companies quickly. Awards have historically been capped in the low hundreds of thousands of dollars for a first feasibility phase, with follow-on funding available. Current caps are set in each EZ-BAA area of interest.

Funder

Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), Division of Research, Innovation, and Ventures (DRIVe), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

public · national

Deadline: Open all year — EZ-BAA abstracts are accepted on a rolling basis against published areas of interest, including FASTx for early-stage antiviral therapeutic platforms.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

US-registered entities; DRIVe programmes include FASTx, Influenza Vaccine Innovation, Digital MCMs, Healing Lungs and IMMUNECHIP+. Contact drive@hhs.gov.

How to apply

  1. Read the current EZ-BAA areas of interest on drive.hhs.gov
  2. Submit a short abstract (typically a few pages) rather than a full proposal
  3. If invited, submit a full proposal and negotiate an agreement

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · UEI and SAM.gov registration, explained

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://drive.hhs.gov/

"funds early stage companies for life saving innovation"

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: funder's homepage — the programme page was not found

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