Those slides are an excellent background and take the story up to about mid-March/April. There were some additional slides at the May call. These were sent to participants, here is the one with update on participation •Pilot currently set for June 23, 2008 through August 23, 2008 •Pilot will be open to States, Local Governments, Universities, Tribes, Non-Profits, etc. •Currently have 60 pilot participants (not counting duplicate representatives from the same organization) •10 Gov; 18 Non-profits; 25 Colleges & Univ.; 1 Tribal Entity There may be more by now. People can be "in" the pilot by joining the conference call. If you have sent your name and institution to Andrea I am sure she has recorded it. She is probably swamped by this FFATA work, doing a day job too. Being "in" the pilot will be somewhat difficult for small institutions who may not actually have any subawards to make during the two month trial period. Nevertheless, people from all institutions who will be making subawards in the future need to be in- volved and make comments and suggestions. Bob ------------------------------ On Jun 11, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Laura Letbetter wrote: I found a Power Point presentation about the FFATA available online at http://hosting.caes.uga.edu/2008csrees/pdfs/S08%20CSREES% 20Orientation%20II-Brandon.pdf. Slide #7 says there are 55 participants in the pilot. Would be interesting to know who is participating thus far. On the last slide, the contact address for the pilot program is listed as xxxxxx@csrees.usda.gov. Laura Letbetter Director, Proposal Development and Programmatic Research Office of Sponsored Programs Kennesaw State University 1000 Chastain Road Kennesaw, GA 30144 770-499-3365 phone 770-499-3620 fax xxxxxx@kennesaw.edu http://www.kennesaw.edu/osp >>> xxxxxx@JAEB.ORG 6/11/2008 11:16:36 AM >>> 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 www.jaeb.org -----Original Message----- From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of Bob Beattie Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:00 AM To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org 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 ------------------------------ 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 ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== I nstructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================
