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Contract and grant transparency is 'wave of the future'
Nancy Gunderson, deputy assistant secretary for grants, acquisition policy and accountability at Health and Human Services, talks about the challenges her agency faces in contracting.
Tags: nancy gunderson , Recovery, Accountability and Transparency Board , HHS , Affordable Care Act , contracting , Federal Drive , grants , Michael OConnell , workforce
Seven lessons from the Recovery Act
Ed DeSeve was the Special Advisor to the President for Recovery Implementation and is now the President of the Global Public Leadership Institute. He writes about the lessons learned in a new report by the IBM Center for the Business of Government.
Tags: Ed DeSeve , In Depth , stimulus funding , transparency , management , budget , best practices
Online forum seeks ideas to prevent stimulus funding abuse
The Recovery Board and the National Academy of Public Administration want your ideas on how to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse of Recovery Act funds.
Tags: Laurie May , National Academy of Public Administration , In Depth , stimulus funding , oversight , management , best practices
Money savings in tax cut extension
The extension of the tax cuts signed into law recently by President Obama include a few money-savings for voters.
Tags: tax cut , payroll tax , Social Security , Energy , tax credit , stimulus , President Obama , Nathan Hager , wtop saves you money
Keeping Up With The Jones 4/27/2009
What keeps you up at night? Is it the tremendous pressure to spend your agency's stimulus funds fast? Most agencies with the largest Recovery Act budgets have spent 10 percent or less to date. The demand to complete acquisition in record time is daunting. Keeping acquisitions on track and on-schedule is critical. At the same time, agencies must also do so properly, within the law and without cutting corners or sacrificing integrity or accountability. That's the challenge. Recovery.org is the official government site for reporting projections on how, when, and where the recovery funds will be spent. The list to the left (under links)highlights the Agencies with spending commitments of over $1M and their associated pay-out rates as of April 23, 2009.
Tags: contracting , acquisition ,
Federal Acquisition Spotlight 4/13/2009
The Federal Acquisition Spotlight, provided by Noblis.
Tags: contracting , acquisition ,
Recovery Act deadline quickly approaching for agencies
WFED's Jason Miller has more.
Tags: management , contracting , Jason Miller
OPM to help CHCOs implement stimulus bill
The Office of Personnel Management will host an interagency meeting of human resource managers to discuss potential approaches to ensuring agencies have enough resources to implement the Recovery Act.
Tags: P&B , Kathie Ann Whipple , OPM , CHCO , stimulus , mngt
OMB finalizes list of agencies that will stop using Grants.gov
DoD, Justice, Energy, HUD among largest agencies to receive applications through alternative systems.
Tags: technology , HHS , OMB , Grants.gov , Grant applications
Recovery Board's DeVaney urges tough penalties for non-compliance
Agencies submitting by Dec. 4 a list of all recipients who have not submitted reports to Recovery.gov on how they are spending stimulus money. DeVaney says about 10 percent of all recipients didn't provide data as of Oct. 1. He calls for Congress to consider strict consequences.
Tags: contracting , management , Earl Devaney , Ed DeSeve , OMB , Recovery Board , stimulus , Recipient reporting
