I just found out today that The Arlington Group, a provider of grants management software, has shut down! I hadn’t heard that they’d exited the marketplace or — more startlingly — closed completely. Their product, Easygrants, was a Microsoft .Net-based system and, to my…

MacNN tracks all things Apple. (They were my first port of call to read about the new iTV, for example!) They have a post today about the Grants.gov contract recompete, and the comments there demonstrate a clear lack of trust in Grants.gov…

Back in July, I posted that the Grants Policy Committee was organizing an open webcast. Details about that event are now available:  DATES: The Committee will hold an open stakeholder meeting and Webcast on Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 11 a.m. to…

Upon re-reading this post today, I think that the prior version of the bulleted paragraph that begins “The e‑forms issue…” made statements that were unfounded given the lack of available public information about the InFlowSuite and Grants.gov’s system performance. I changed the…

Over at Partial Recall, Rob Fay notes that use of a Java e‑forms client may have been a more open, platform-neutral approach. I don’t share this view, and here’s why (comment reproduced from Partial recall):  As long as an offline client is needed,…

For the last while, a collaborative group formed by members of the National Grants Partnership and Federal Demonstration Partnership have been working on a study to uncover the “issues that exist with DUNS number management and the CCR registration process.” The study…

The Washington Post has a column today called Macs and Grant Site Just Don’t Click to follow up from an article back in February. Rick Weiss has found some interesting facts:  Northrop Grumman has been testing the PureEdge/IBM Workplace Forms Mac…

So Anteon, which was bought earlier this year by General Dynamics, is the new Grants.gov systems integrator, replacing Northrop Grumman. Here are the contract details:  Total contract value over five years is $18,834,822.54. First year’s contract value is $4,499,615.54, leaving…

Anteon was named the new systems integrator for Grants.gov today, according to the NITAAC contract awards web site. I’ll have more analysis of this in a later post.…

The Senate today passed the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, known at S.2590, reports GovExec. This bill creates an online database of federal grants and contract funding (unlike H.R.5060 which looks only at grants). It’s about time this information…