After focusing so much on the details of the Office of Management and Budget’s grant reform guidance, we failed to notice an important announcement recently posted on the Recovery.gov website. The Section 1512 reporting requirement for American Recovery and Reinvestment…
Dearly beloved, we gather here today to pay our last respects to several members of the O.C. club. What is the O.C. club, you may ask? If you turn in your hymnals, otherwise known as the 2013 Office of Management…
October 1, 2012 – 1:44 pm
This past weekend originally was supposed to be the deadline for federal agencies to submit waiver requests to the Office of Management and Budget for extended American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding after September 2013. In case you missed an…
August 10, 2012 – 6:00 am
(The following was excerpted from an article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) The Food and Nutrition Service plans to issue guidance this fall requiring states to review documentation periodically under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) to ensure expenses…
There has been intense focus over the past few years on ensuring that recipients of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act awards manage them properly. Now, as most of these grants come to an end, the focus is shifting to closing…
By Jerry Ashworth
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Posted in Awards, Compliance/Reporting, Grants Management, Monitoring/Subrecipients/Subawards, OMB Circulars and Regulations, Recovery Act/ARRA/Stimulus, Technology/Systems
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Also tagged grant closeout, RATB, reconciliation, Thompson, webinar
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(The following was excerpted from an article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) A Federal Highway Administration policy expected by the end of the year will call for a review of state bidding and contract awarding procedures to ensure states…
If you are a recipient of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act award funding from the National Institute of Health and you expect to continue spending funds past September 2013, your deadline for submitting a waiver to do so is fast…
August 11, 2011 – 6:30 am
(This post is based on an upcoming article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) New Federal Highway Administration policy expected by the end of September could increase the agency’s scrutiny of federally funded local road projects and boost the effectiveness of…
By Jerry Ashworth
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Posted in Compliance/Reporting, Cost Principles/Direct Costs/Indirect Costs, Grants Management, Monitoring/Subrecipients/Subawards, Recovery Act/ARRA/Stimulus, Single Audits, State and Local Governments
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Also tagged ARRA, audit, DOT, Federal Highway Administration, FHWA, highway funds, local public agencies, OIG, road projects
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August 10, 2011 – 6:20 am
Leave it to the folks in Washington, D.C. to wait until I go on vacation to finally release some details on a story that I’d been tracking on a daily basis. A couple of years ago, no sooner had I…
Amid all the pro-transparency, pro-accountability, anti-waste hoopla that has dominated the headlines (and our blog) concerning Rep. Daniel Issa’s (R-Calif.) Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act) bill and President Obama’s Campaign to Cut Waste initiative, the real white elephant…
By Jerry Ashworth
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Posted in Compliance/Reporting, Congress, Grants Management, Improper Payments, Legislation, Monitoring/Subrecipients/Subawards, OMB Circulars and Regulations, Recovery Act/ARRA/Stimulus, State and Local Governments
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Also tagged Campaign to Cut Waste, compliance, DATA Act, FAST Board, Federal Accountability and Spending Transparency Board, Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, Issa, Obama, reporting, states, waste
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