OMB GMLOB guidance released for Q1 FY08

Thanks to Jerry Ashworth at Thompson Publishing, editor of the Federal Grants Management Handbook (disclosure: I’m a member of the Handbook Advisory Board), for pointing me toward the GrantSolutions.gov site where OMB’s latest guidance has been posted. This is the guidance…

TCG Aims to Save Taxpayers $1 Billion by 2011

Company committed to creating value and efficiencies to benefit the nation  Washington, DC, September 25, 2007: TCG, a leading government technology strategy and IT company, announced today that it has committed itself to saving US taxpayers $1 billion by 2011. TCG…

The unsaid reason why agencies resist GMLOB

Last week and today I’ve been having interested chats with various people about GMLOB and attempts to consolidate grants management operations. One key point has emerged from these discussions and I thought it might be useful to describe it here.  The problem…

FDP: GMOB Profiles

All three of the GMLOB consortia (NSF, Education, and HHS/ACF) gave an overview of their offerings today. Notes follow the jump……

Cayuse launches Grantopedia blog

Grantopedia is a new grants management blog being fully launched tomorrow, sponsored by Cayuse. From the press release:  “Through our work with Grants.gov, universities and federal funding agencies we have met and engaged with many well-informed people with exceptional insights into…

TCG’s Successful Hiring Process Highlighted

Small Business Review discusses ways to improve hiring  Washington, D.C., June 27, 2007: TCG’s hiring process is highlighted in a recent Small Business Review article, Find Your Hire Power. “If you run a business, the odds are good that you’ve made a few…

HUD’s Barbara Dorf selected for National Public Service Award

There’s a nice profile of Barbara Dorf, HUD’s Director of the Office of Departmental Grants Management and Oversight, in this Federal Times report about recipients of the National Public Service Award. In it, Barbara is quoted talking about HUD’s Logic Model…

Performance metrics to drive LOB choices

Mary Mosquera at FCW has an interesting report about OMB’s push to drive adoption of Financial Management Line of Business providers by gathering and providing performance metrics. Trisha Broadbelt, deputy program manager of the Financial Management LOB at the Interior…

Misnomer of the week: E‑gov = shutting down old systems

Wyatt Kash at GCN has a message for OMB: by shutting down legacy e‑gov systems, “the administration can strengthen its case for cross-agency funding of these, and future, e‑government projects.”  Grants.gov is perhaps the best example of an e‑government initiative that…