Sneak Preview: FHWA Plans Guidance To Improve Major Highway Project Oversight
(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Single Audit Information Service.) The Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) plans to develop guidance by the end of next year to help its division offices more consistently…
COFAR Launches Tool for Stakeholder Feedback on Uniform Guidance
Stakeholder feedback is always a good thing, especially when it comes to initiatives taken by the federal government. As it seeks to ensure that the uniform grant guidance performs as intended — by reducing administrative burden while eliminating fraud, waste…
Sneak Preview: NIH Sets Standard Late Application Window
(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) Applicants vying for grants and cooperative agreements from the National Institutes of Health should be aware that NIH has simplified its policy for reviewing applications that…
NIH Issues Interim General Grant Conditions
Now that the Office of Management and Budget’s uniform grant guidance is in place and federal agencies have adopted it into their regulations, the folks at these agencies can’t just sit back and declare their work finished. Now comes a…
Sneak Preview: Accurate Information Required for ESEA Waivers
(The following was excerpted from an article in the Single Audit Information Service.) State educational agencies (SEAs) submitting renewals this spring for provision waivers under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child…
Get Uniform Grant Guidance Training from Top Grants Experts
If you are in the Washington, D.C., vicinity next week, Thompson Information Services and the Performance Institute are offering an excellent chance to learn all about the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) uniform grant guidance, featuring an A-list of…
Sneak Preview: Research Terms and Conditions Update Under Way
(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) A working group of the National Science and Technology Council’s Research Business Models (RBM) subcommittee is taking steps to update the existing governmentwide research terms and…
Don’t Confuse the Uniform Grant Guidance With the Y2K Scare
It seems like yesterday, but it was actually 15 years ago. Folks in their 30s and up probably remember the panic surrounding the Y2K technology concerns. In late 1999, there were concerns that the computers at that time couldn’t distinguish…
Sneak Preview: Tenn. Audit Calls for Improved Program Monitoring
(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Single Audit Information Service.) In response to a recent Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury (TCT) audit, the child care program director for the Tennessee Department of Education (TDE) plans to…
COSO Model Can Be Used for Internal Controls for Grants and Cyberspace
The grants community is becoming aware of the importance of having internal controls, and using the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission’s (COSO) internal control model to ensure that their grant programs aren’t targets of fraud, waste and…