Dear all:

The State of Texas has been offered the opportunity to meet with GAO to
discuss implementation issues related to PL106-107 and the Governor's
Office graciously invited UT Austin to participate in the opportunity to
share information with GAO.

This is a great opportunity to be heard by an organization that might be
able to help us with Grants.gov implementation.

I have collected information about Grants.gov issues from the FDP
website and NCURA (and I have scoured resadm-l archives).

Nevertheless, I would like to obtain more data from you, the people who
most often work with Grants.gov and ponder its usefulness or lack
thereof.

Do any of you have a summary list of Grants.gov problems available?

I have already noted in my written materials for GAO that there are
issues with bandwidth, difficulties with the SF424 R&R, CCR registration
problems, and communication problems between federal agencies and
Grants.gov on what is needed to move forward on the project.

What else should I communicate?  GAO seems particularly interested in
the following problems (not exclusively focused on Grants.gov):  the
proliferation of agency electronic systems, system-to-system interfaces
with Grants.gov, and lack of coordination among federal agencies re
information to be submitted.

Please forward comments and concerns to me prior to November 11th so I
can include them in the discussion with GAO.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Rochelle R. Athey
The University of Texas at Austin
Associate Director, Sponsored Projects
PO Box 7726
Austin, TX 78713-7726
512-471-6448
512-471-6564 fax

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