Federal Grants Practice: Agency Perspective

Part One: Agreement Awards. The Background of Federal Assistance; A Snapshot of Federal Assistance Funding; The Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act; The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; Types of Assistance Strategies and Awards; Grant Regulations; Selecting the Relationship: Assistance or Procurement; Selecting Assistance Relationship: Grant or Cooperative Agreement; Competition for Awards; The Evaluation of Proposals; Rights of Non-Selected Applicants; the Agreement (especially terms and conditions not in the actual award document); Principles of Agreement and Statutory Interpretation; and Federal Appropriations and Fiscal Law Issues Affecting Federal Assistance.

Part Two: Agreement Administration. A thorough review of the Recipients' responsibilities that the Agency must monitor. This includes Reporting; Financial and Property Management; the Recipients' Awards (subgrant or contract?); Contracting with Federal Grant Dollars (including Recovery Act rules); Cost Allowability Issues; Agency Remedies for Noncompliance; Terminations and Extensions of Agreements; Audits; Grant Fraud and Government Legal Remedies (e.g., the Civil False Claims Act); Disputes and Dispute Resolution; and Grant Exclusion (Suspension and Debarment)