Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Service Area Competition (SAC) HRSA-27-009

The Fiscal Year Service Area Competition, opportunity number HRSA-27-009, is a forecasted federal discretionary grant opportunity administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The opportunity is part of the Health Center Program under Assistance Listing 93.224. Its purpose is to improve the health of medically underserved communities and populations by supporting the delivery of comprehensive, high-quality preventive and primary health care services in the United States and its territories. For each Service Area Competition Notice of Funding Opportunity, the specific service areas available for competition are announced in a Service Area Announcement Table. The agency may also announce additional service areas during the year through a Service Area Competition-Additional Area opportunity if an awarded health center is unable to continue providing services in its funded service area. The forecast identifies an estimated total program funding amount of $49,601,000 and approximately 75 awards. Individual awards are expected to range from a floor of $650,000 to a ceiling of $1,500,231. The funding instrument is a grant, the opportunity category is discretionary, and the category of funding activity is Health. The source states that cost sharing or matching is not required. No additional award tiers, indirect cost limitations, subaward limitations, or other specific spending restrictions are provided in the forecasted opportunity information. The source describes the funded activity generally as supporting comprehensive, high-quality preventive and primary health care services for medically underserved communities and populations. Eligible applicants include Native American tribal organizations other than federally recognized tribal governments, city or township governments, nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service other than institutions of higher education, county governments, state governments, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, public housing authorities or Indian housing authorities, and special district governments. The source defines domestic locations to include the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. The forecast does not provide additional organizational qualifications, capacity requirements, or applicant-specific restrictions beyond the eligibility information shown. This opportunity is currently a forecast rather than a posted application package. The estimated posting date is December 9, 2026, and the estimated application deadline is January 8, 2027. Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the listed application due date. The supplied forecast does not identify a letter of intent, concept paper, pre-proposal, notice of intent, or other pre-application gating requirement. It also does not provide application questions, required narrative sections, required uploads, named forms, portal-specific submission steps beyond electronic submission, or a required question-and-answer deadline. Those details therefore cannot be established from the forecast and may become available when the full Notice of Funding Opportunity and application package are posted. The forecast does not provide formal evaluation criteria, scoring weights, review factors, or detailed selection procedures. Based strictly on the stated program description, the funded work concerns the delivery of comprehensive, high-quality preventive and primary health care services to medically underserved communities and populations, and applicants will compete for service areas identified through the applicable Service Area Announcement Table. No previous recipients are identified in the supplied source. Because detailed application and review materials are not included in the forecast, applicants should rely on the eventual Notice of Funding Opportunity for the complete application requirements and evaluation standards rather than treating the forecast as a complete solicitation. The opportunity was forecast on September 1, 2026 and was last updated on September 1, 2026. The estimated posting date is December 9, 2026, the estimated application due date is January 8, 2027, and the archive date is February 7, 2027. The estimated award date is July 29, 2027, followed by an estimated project start date of August 1, 2027. The forecast does not state a project end date or complete period of performance. Program questions may be directed to the Health Resources and Services Administration at bphcfunding@hrsa.gov or 301-594-4300. No individual grantor contact person is named in the supplied information.

Align the proposed work with the stated purpose of delivering comprehensive high-quality preventive and primary health care services to medically underserved communities and populations and ensure alignment with the applicable service area identified in the Service Area Announcement Table.