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Commerce Grants Management Solution
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The Department of Commerce is currently developing plans for deployment of
an agency wide grants management system. The system is capable of
providing a fast, coherent, flexible and robust application in support of
the evaluation, award and long-term management of federal financial
assistance awards. Specifically the system will deliver a standardized set
of capabilities for viewing, retrieving, modifying, and deleting
Application and Grant related information including, but not limited to:
applications, awards, amendments, audits, proposal scoring and commentary,
budget and finance data, as well as Technical and Panel Peer Review
information. The Project Team is working in conjunction with and in support
of the President's E-Grants Initiative and ensures that grant application
information keyed into the Grants.gov system is imported directly into the
system for use by all affected Commerce awarding components. The vision
is for the system to provide end to end processing of awards throughout
their entire life cycle (from the beginning of the application cycle
through post award administration and closeout). The system is aimed at
delivering a significant reduction in the amount of time (and potentially
cost and level of effort) it takes to award grants.
Already in use at the
largest Commerce bureau issuing financial assistance awards, the system has
produced a significant effect on time processing/managing awards -
Mail/Paper Handling Per Grant (30 days down to 0 days for applications
received through Grants.gov)
Data Entry Per Grant (17.25 hours down to 2.2 hours)
Technical Administrative / Compliance Review of Applications (limited
time available to having significant time available for this task).
The grantee community will have limited access to the system as well, with
the ability to monitor certain aspects of their awards and file required
reports electronically. This page will be updated as future developments
transpire.
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