I’m at the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) meeting today and will be posting some brief notes throughout the day, courtesy of the free wi-fi here at the wonderful National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.  There were updates from NSF,…

Following up Friday’s OMB e‑mail that requires agencies to designate a GMLOB consortia lead by December 31, the Grants Executive Board today held a meeting that offered a few more details about the policy, exceptions, and other matters. The following notes are based…

I’m attending the FDP meeting next week in Washington, DC, and if anyone would like to meet up, let me know! The agenda looks pretty good, especially now that OMB has re-energized the GMLOB!…

On Friday OMB made a significant announcement about the GMLOB to the CIO Council mailing list:  In the FY07 President’s Budget, OMB designated three agencies as consortia leads for the Grants Management Line of Business (GM LoB): the Department of Education,…

GovExec reports that three Presidential hopefuls have signed an oath pledging to support FedSpending.gov (FFATA), should they win office next year. The Oath of Presidential Transparency is being led by the Reason Foundation and Sens. Barack Obama, D‑Ill., and Sam…

Bob Beattie of the University of Michigan asked the Grants.gov S2S mailing list whether data elements on the 424 might change because of the requirements of the FFATA and Kim Deutsch of the NSF responded. I thought this would be of…

Following up from our post last week about this subject, Jason Miller at FCW today reports that GSA is now competing the requirement for data for FedSpending.gov. Jason has a knack for getting good information about the whys and wherefores of…

Matt Jillings at Compusearch pinged me about this posting [PDF version] on FedBizOpps for “The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) Data”. This seems to replace the prior sole source procurement intended for Eagle Eye, who developed FedSpending.org. I wonder…

I got this from the NGP a few days ago and just now have time to post it here. If anyone’s interested in helping think through subaward reporting for FATA, contact Tyson Whitney or Barbara Dorf.…

Well it looks like GSA is going to base FederalSpending.gov, the Web site intended to meet the requirements of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA), on OMB Watch’s FedSpending.org site, which was created by a contractor called Eagle Eye.…