BARDA DRIVe Easy Broad Agency Announcement
BARDA DRIVe EZ-BAA
Open continuously
No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.
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.
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: rolling — EZ-BAA abstracts are accepted on a rolling basis against published areas of interest, including FASTx for early-stage antiviral therapeutic platforms.
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.
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
Who can apply
- Sectors: health, deeptech
- Stage: pre_seed, seed, series_a
- R&D activity required
- Locally registered entity required
US-registered entities; DRIVe programmes include FASTx, Influenza Vaccine Innovation, Digital MCMs, Healing Lungs and IMMUNECHIP+. Contact drive@hhs.gov.
How to apply
- Read the current EZ-BAA areas of interest on drive.hhs.gov
- Submit a short abstract (typically a few pages) rather than a full proposal
- If invited, submit a full proposal and negotiate an agreement
Source. https://drive.hhs.gov/ — checked 2026-08-14
"funds early stage companies for life saving innovation"