Bob:
Thanks for the update. Interestingly, I have tried to
sign up for the
sub award pilot due to start on June 23. I was told to
contact Andrea
Brandon at 'xxxxxx@usda.gov'which I did, but never got
a
response. Has anyone been successful in signing up for the
pilot? And,
yes I checked out our institution on the website and even
though we are
very small, they managed to get it wrong!
According to
Thompson Publishing (Federal Grants Management Handbook)
OMB is requesting
comments on the proposed OMB guidance on DUNS numbers
and CCR registration by
August 5. Has anyone seen this?
Lesley S.
Zajac
Director, Research Administration
Jaeb Center for Health
Research
15310 Amberly Drive
Suite 350
Tampa, FL 33647
Tel:
813.975.8690
Fax: 813.975.8761
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Of Bob Beattie
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:00 AM
To:
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Subject: [RESADM-L] FFATA news
For those who are
interested in developments with the newest
congressional mandated burden on
us -- Federal Funding Accountability
and Transparency Act of 2006, especially
the sub-award component, note
that there is a conference call this
afternoon -- June 11, 2- 4 pm.
Details are here
http://www.thengp.org/ There are probably only
75 phone
lines, so call early.
The National Grants Partnership seems
to have taken over this project on
behalf of users.
The sub-award
component was supposed to have a pilot, to test the data
elements, the
general process and the IT solution. This was to have
started last
year, as the whole system goes into effect January 1, 2009.
The sub contract
pilot has been going on for some time, now, but only
one entity qualified to
participate, given the high criteria imposed.
The sub grant pilot is to start
June 23 and run until mid August. I
urge everyone who does subawards at
their institution to get involved or
you will just have to suffer with
whatever is imposed, come January.
You will have to be reporting all
subawards of $25,000 or more,
including data elements yet to be
determined, using some program yet to
be determined, in a format yet to
be determined, for some number of
lower tiers, yet to be determined.
Help determine what these will be.
Start by joining in on the conference
call.
By the way, stay tuned for the sequel.
http://obama.senate.gov/press/080603-obama_and_cobur_2/Consider
sending an email from that site, saying (maybe) this is a good
idea but how
about waiting until the first one is working correctly.
Have you all
checked out your institutions at
http://www.usaspending.gov/ to see what
they have done to you? The
University of Michigan is quite a
mess. I am all for fighting waste and
fraud in government grants but
how to start when here are 9 entries for
UM?
Let's hope we can help
the subaward system turn out
better.
Bob
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Robert
Beattie
Editor, eRA Corner, NCURA Magazine
UMich FFATA Sub Award Pilot
Representative UMich e-Business Point of
Contact UMich Grants.gov Liaison
Managing Senior Project Representative
for Electronic Research Administration
Division of Research Development
and Administration University of
Michigan
xxxxxx@umich.edu (734)
936-1283
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