# Presentation: 051163

## Program Overview

*Program Overview*

- Charles Havekost, Program Manager charles.havekost@hhs.gov
- www.grants.gov

## Background

- Size: 600 programs, $360B, >200K awards
- Variety: grant mechanisms, activities funded
- Culture: Entrenched Grants Processes
- Mandate - President’s Management Agenda and PL106-107
- Eleven Partners, other agencies, OMB, grantee communities
- E-Grants Initiative creates the Grants.gov storefront

## Deliverables

- The Grants.gov Program has 2 main deliverables:
- A unified “storefront” for all customers of Federal grants to electronically Find grant opportunities – a single place to search all competitive grant opportunities
- Also at the unified “storefront,” a way to electronically submit grant applications, handling applications for all federal grant programs.

## “Find” Deliverable 

- Use FedBizOpps model to store announcement synopsis
- Standard synopsis and full announcement data via PL106-107 Pre-Award work group
- Pilot for agencies complete – all 26 grant-making agencies
- Agencies posting “live” synopses today
- Preparing for scale-up and public announcement
- Plan (and policy) for 100% posting of competitive announcements by October 2003

## “Apply” Deliverable

- Single System to submit applications (“Trusted Broker”)
- Data standards for discretionary application                  (Core = SF424 + DUNS via TS194)
- Fillable forms to provide familiar application experience
- CCR for Organizational Profile (www.bpn.gov)
- Conform to E-Gov Architecture (including XML)
- Deployment in October 2003, starting with “core”-only applications, then adding more complex applications

## Current Grants Environment

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*"Many-to-Many" Model is Costly for Applicants and Agencies *

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## Grants.gov Solution

- Grants.gov
- “Trusted Broker”

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- Applicant N

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- Builds applicant knowledge of "core" data
- Helps identify commonalities among agency-specific data

-  Embodies Standards
- Facilitates System-to-System Interfaces

*Benefits Both Grant Applicants and Agencies *

## Benefits for Grantee Community

- Single source to search for grant opportunities
- Common “face” for applications to different agencies
- Choice of workflow, including 3rd party solutions
- Existing mechanisms can continue to exist
- Avoid having to learn dozens of different agency-specific application systems
- Grants.gov will continue to work with the grantee communities to ensure requirements are met, including pilots and training

## Benefits for Grantor Agencies

- Unifies the “face” of Agency grant announcements
- Can continue with existing business processes while being compatible with the Grants.gov services
- Avoid cost of having to build separate agency-specific grant application systems
- Opportunity to use more off-the-shelf grant management software as legacy systems get replaced
- Opportunities for consolidations and use of best practices within agencies

## For more information: www.grants.gov