Opportunity Information: Apply for E22AS00392
The BSEE Experienced Services Program (ESP) is a discretionary federal funding opportunity run by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) under the Department of the Interior. It is authorized by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (Public Law 117-103), which allows BSEE to enter into cooperative agreements with certain nonprofit organizations so the agency can tap into the skills of older, highly experienced professionals. The basic idea is to create a streamlined way for BSEE to access specialized technical expertise on a temporary basis, without having to go through the full process of recruiting, hiring, and directly administering those workers as federal employees.
Under this program, BSEE partners with qualified nonprofit organizations that can recruit and manage experienced individuals age 55 and older who have technical capabilities that BSEE needs but may not have sufficiently represented in its current workforce. These individuals (often called “enrollees” or participants) are not federal employees. Instead, they are brought in through the nonprofit partner under a cooperative agreement, which typically means BSEE and the awardee work collaboratively to define needs, place participants, and ensure the work aligns with the agency’s mission and priorities. The program is positioned as a cost-effective human capital tool: BSEE focuses on identifying where expertise is needed, while the nonprofit handles much of the administrative and staffing burden.
The work supported through ESP is tied directly to BSEE’s offshore safety and environmental protection mission. Participants are expected to provide technical assistance and project support that helps BSEE promote safety, protect the environment, and conserve offshore resources through strong regulatory oversight and enforcement. The opportunity highlights several priority areas where experienced workers may be used, including renewable energy activities, decommissioning efforts, and well intervention projects, along with other BSEE-related technical initiatives. In practice, this can mean supporting BSEE staff with specialized engineering, scientific, analytical, or programmatic expertise that helps the agency design, execute, and improve projects that ultimately benefit the public.
A key safeguard in the program is the legal requirement that ESP participants cannot be used in a way that harms existing workers or contracts. Specifically, enrollees may not displace Department of the Interior employees, reduce their non-overtime hours, wages, or benefits, perform the work of DOI employees who are in layoff status from the same or substantially similar jobs, or negatively affect existing service contracts. These restrictions are meant to ensure the program supplements agency capacity with hard-to-find expertise rather than substituting for standard staffing or contracting.
Eligibility is tightly limited. Applicants must be private nonprofit organizations with IRS 501(c)(3) status (and they cannot be institutions of higher education), and they must also be designated by the Secretary of Labor under Title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (the framework commonly associated with senior community service employment programs). Applications must include proof of this status/designation, and failure to meet these eligibility requirements makes an applicant ineligible for an award.
The published grant listing identifies this as a cooperative agreement (not a contract), categorized under Employment, Labor and Training (CFDA/Assistance Listing 15.019). The funding opportunity number is E22AS00392, and it was originally posted on June 29, 2022, with an original closing date of August 29, 2022. The listed award ceiling is $200,000, and the announcement indicates expected awards, although the exact number is not specified in the provided text.Apply for E22AS00392
- The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement in the employment, labor and training sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BSEE Experienced Services Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.019.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2022-06-29.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2022-08-29. (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 $200,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
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