Someone is often looking over your shoulder when you purchase goods and services using federal grant funds. No surprise there! Funding agencies care about whether you’re getting good deals. But they also care whether your organization follows the many procedural steps that come with authority to spend the so-called “procurement element” of your federal awards.
In many cases, it’s noncompliance with those steps that has landed a recipient or subrecipient in long term “federal grant hot water.” So, knowing about and avoiding the numerous procurement pitfalls that are out there is a prudent strategy. This webinar will help you do that.
You’ll learn about:
- Creating loud and clear competition policy for grant-funded procurements
- Filling the silence on subawards of federal financial assistance
- Understanding the “full collection” of federal policies on conflicts of interest
- Personal and familial
- Financial
- Organizational self-dealing
- Contractor involvement in procurement solicitations
- Crafting federal policy references to document procurement decisions
- OMB’s Uniform Guidance
- Supplemental policies of individual federal agencies (Example: EPA)
- Defining and conducting “strategic sourcing”
- “Make or buy” decisions
- Intergovernmental and interlocal arrangements
- Memoranda of understanding
- Safeguards during cooperative purchasing
- Justifying sole-source procurements
- “Shopping sensibly”
- Requirements and practices
- Avoiding unnecessary and duplicative procurements
- Pursuing domestic preference, aka “Buy American”
- Constraints on time and materials contracts
Hand-out Materials:
Attendees will receive presentation slides as well as access to background materials.
Allowable Charges
The costs of webinars sponsored by Federal Fund Management Advisor™ are allowable charges to your federal grants and subgrants. The cost principles issued by OMB under its uniform guidance (and applicable to all types of awardees) state, “The cost of training and education for employee development is allowable” (2 CFR 200.472).
Attend this Live Webinar and Earn up to 1.8 CPE Credits