Today GAO has released a report called “Grants.gov Has Systemic Weaknesses That Require Attention”; you can grab it here. The report highlights spell out some serious flaws in the governance, funding, design, and operation of Grants.gov, which are reasonably well known…
It’s late on a Friday, so of course I’m posting grants management news to the blog. What? You mean you don’t post information about the business of grants at the start of the weekend?!
Anyway, the NGMA announced earlier this week…
Grants.gov has determined (through a very rigorous process) that only General Dynamics IT, their current contractor, can help them through this frantic period of activity and meet the goals of the Recovery Act, and has awarded them a contract extension, as this…
The Federal Times published an article yesterday with some interesting quotes and comments from several federal agencies who are now accepting grant applications through home-grown systems rather than using Grants.gov. Of those interviewed by The Federal Times, the consensus appears…
OMB’s Director has issued a memo instructing federal agencies to “submit recommended alternatives [to Grants.gov for receiving grant applications] … for review and approval by March 13, 2009” because a system review has revealed that Grants.gov has “significant risk of failure” and…
Company leads team to deliver full range of IT services to OMB
Washington, DC, October 14, 2008: TCG announced today that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), part of the Executive Office of the President (EOP), has awarded the company…
Grants.gov is seeking information from companies capable of providing a “cloud computing” solution to support its needs, as this sources sought notice shows:
The core business of Grants.gov is: forms (development with business rules, testing, and deployment); the data residing…
It looks like good ideas spread! Grants.gov has started its own blog all about grants management. Check it out here.…
As reported over at GovExec, one part of Senator Voinovich’s new legislation is to develop a web site where grantees can track their grant applications. Clearly this is an attempt to expand the scope of Grants.gov (which was originally intended to…
The next Grants.gov Stakeholder Webcast has been announced for July 16, 1pm-2pm EST. All the details are on the Grants Management Events Calendar, which you can also plug into your calendaring system by clicking here. The webcast can be viewed…
