The Senate also passed and sent to the House S-4716, to tighten requirements for auditing grant recipients. Image: Volodymyr TVERDOKHLIB/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffThe House has passed and sent to the Senate HR-5536, to require notices of competitive grant funding opportunities to include a description of the criteria the agency uses to assess applications.
That would have to include: a description of any rating system and evaluation and selection criteria the agency uses to assess applications for the grant; a statement of whether the agency uses a weighted scoring method and a description of any such method that it uses for the grant, including the amount by which the agency weighs each criterion; and any other qualitative or quantitative merit-based approach the agency uses to evaluate an application for the grant.
The Senate meanwhile has passed and sent to the House S-4716, to tighten requirements for auditing recipients of grants made by federal agencies by requiring OMB and GSA to set a new cross-governmental strategy and use advanced analytical tools to identify fraud risk and to make audit data more accessible.
The bill also requires periodic government-wide reviews of audit quality that incorporate recommendations from GAO and other oversight entities, and would also increase federal agency coordination to ensure recipients of federal awards are complying with requirements and submitting their required audits.
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