Category: Grants Management
September 11, 2006
Rebuilding Grants.gov
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 is the new Grants.gov systems integrator
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.…
September 8, 2006
S.2590 passed in Senate
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…
September 5, 2006
E‑Gov at Five Years, Part Five
In the final part of his review of US federal e‑gov activities Daniel Pulliam looks at the lines of business initiatives, which many regard as the next phase of e‑government. The Grants Management Line of Business and Grants.gov are mentioned…
September 1, 2006
E‑Gov at Five Years
GovExec has a series of articles ( 1, 2, 3, 4) reviewing the history of US federal government e‑gov initiatives — their genesis, funding, and results. It’s a good review for anyone playing catch-up, and Grants.gov makes an appearance a couple of times.…
S.2590 — A month of procedural nonsense
It’s been quite a month for S.2590, the bill that proposes to establish an easily searchable database of all federal grants and contracts, and about which I’ve blogged several times (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). The bill had a hold put…
August 21, 2006
GAO report panel discussion — got questions?
The National Grants Partnership is planning to host a panel discussion about the GAO’s last report about grants streamlining on September 12th. It looks like I will be moderating the panel, so if you’ve got a question that you’d like addressed to some…
August 9, 2006
Measuring government ROI
InfoWorld reports that SAP executives have said that “struggle to define and measure the economic, social and political returns of government-funded technology programs”. At the root of this, of course, is the desire of vendors like SAP to help government…
August 3, 2006
S.2590 amended
The THOMAS site hasn’t been updated yet but here’s the amended version of S.2590. The revisions are as follows:
Enactment date delayed from beginning of 2007 to beginning of 2008;
Requirement for a 10-year archive of data has been removed;
Individual transactions…
August 1, 2006
More on that GCN story / business problem ≠ technology problem
Yesterday I posted about this GCN story that seems to lay all blame for grants management inefficiencies at Grants.gov’s door. In re-reading the article, think the author got the wrong end of the stick from GAO’s report. Here’s the first sentence…