A blog about (mostly) writing proposals for government grants and government contracts
Last week I was working on completing a government proposal that needed to be sanitized after the original was done. When you think about sanitizing a proposal, the first thing that comes to mind is search and replace — search for the company name and replace it with a fictional name or with the Cage Code if required by the government. It’s easy to do. But as I was going through the proposal after doing my search and replace, I realized that there were a number of other items that needed to be changed as well. And if you’re not careful, these items can easily be overlooked.
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It’s not new news — this has been going on for a long time and has been reported upon periodically. But now the DoD Inspector General has issued a new report (February 29, 2012) entitled “Inadequate Controls Over the DoD Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Set-Aside Program (SDVOSB) Allow Ineligible Contractors to Receive Contracts.” The report is disheartening. Here are the major findings:
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Henry Flood, Senior Advisor for Grant Administration at The Grantsmanship Center (TGCI), has published an excellent article on the new proposed federal reforms to government grants policies. I have excerpted portions of the article below, and you’ll find a link to the full article at the end of the post.
“The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the federal awarding agencies have taken their first steps towards global reform of grants management policy and procedure. This is the first effort of this kind since the era of new federalism dating back to the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.
Issued as an Advanced Notice of Proposed Guidance (ANPG) in the February 28th edition of the Federal Register (pages 11778-11785), the eight page document lays out a series of ideas for reform of federal policies relating to grants management, cost principles and audit requirements.
0 comments - leave a commentThere are lots of RFPs out there, but they’re not always easy to find. Here are a few sources:
0 comments - leave a commentIf you are preparing a technical proposal for submission to the government or other entity, it’s important to develop a schedule that shows the dates that proposal team meetings will be held; when major proposal sections are due internally; when internal proposal materials will be reviewed and returned; when editing, production and other functions will take place; and when other critical events will occur.
The schedule should be distributed to all members of the proposal team along with a listing of assignments and other responsibilities.
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Each month, the Foundation Center hosts various free online webinars for those interested in learning about or seeking foundation grants. Next month (September 2011) these webinars include:
And more.
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When you’re doing a read-through of your RFP and when you’re getting ready to prepare your proposal outline, you’ll want to take note of some basic instructions that may have a critical impact on proposal preparation. Most, if not all of these instructions can be found in Section L of the RFP, Instructions to Offerors (bidders). Things that I always take note of include:
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