Please note that we have received additional guidance on federal agency notices on a possible government shutdown. Please contact OSP if you have any questions about a specific grant application or award. Please monitor the OSP website for updates. Thank
you.
Jill Mortali
Director, Office of Sponsored Projects
Dartmouth College
11 Rope Ferry Road
Hanover NH 0375
603-646-0678
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The links below are to the DHHS written procedures for shutting down and the attached notice from NSF (and link) provides NSF's procedures. The third link below is to a government executive.com article with links to other agency procedures.
Key section on NSF:
Notice to Awardees
As part of the shutdown activity, a notice will be sent to the Foundation awardees informing them that work may continue on all awards to the extent that doing so will not require federal staff intervention and that funds are available. The notice will
inform awardees that no payments will be made during the funding hiatus.
Key section on HHS/NIH:
HHS, Program Support Center (PSC), Financial Management Service (FMS), Division of Payment Management (DPM) will be operational and retain minimal necessary staffing in an excepted status to ensure delivery of grant payments for excepted programs during a possible
appropriations hiatus. The DPM will follow specific processes to ensure payment of permissible disbursements. Additionally, grant payments will continue be processed following the existing, robust internal controls – as long as the drawdown requests do not
trigger the Payment Management System (PMS) edit checks and awarding entity drawdown limit controls. DPM is poised to issue specific guidance to its customers, including information about how payment requests that trigger any one of the PMS drawdown controls
will be handled.
HHS will maintain Grants.gov system in an operational status, but with reduced federal support staff presence, should a lapse in appropriations occur. In addition, the Grants.gov Contact Center will remain available, and provide assistance to callers. HHS,
as Managing Partner, in collaboration with OMB and the Grants.gov Program Management Office, will keep the federal grantor community updated as to the status of the Grants.gov system as plans evolve in the event of a government shutdown.
http://www.hhs.gov/budget/fy2014/fy2014contingency_staffing_plan-rev2.pdf
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/contingencyplans/2013/nsf-shutdown2013.pdf
http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2013/09/agencies-post-shutdown-plans-online/70976/?oref=govexec_today_nl
Carol J. Blum
Council on Governmental Relations
1200 New York Ave., NW, Suite 750
Washington DC 20005
202-289-6655, ext. 117
Fax: 202-289-6698
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From: Feldman, Jean I. [ mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 12:15 PM
Cc: NSF POLICY
Subject: NSF Guidance regarding potential government shutdown
Dear Colleagues:
The attached document addresses the various assistance and contract-related policy and systems issues that may arise in the event of a shutdown of the Federal Government. NSF is providing this information as a service to our proposer and awardee communities
in the hopes that it will address most of the questions you may have during this time period.
If the government does shutdown on Tuesday, October 1, the NSF website including FastLane and Research.gov will be unavailable. We are therefore requesting that you disseminate this guidance as broadly as possible to ensure your colleagues are aware
of the impact of a government shutdown on NSF proposals, awards and contracts.
Please be aware that, except as noted, NSF will not be available to respond to emails or phone calls during the shutdown, but will respond to your inquiries as soon as practicable after normal operations have resumed. We also will issue follow-on guidance
once the Federal Government resumes normal operations.
Sincerely,
Jean Feldman
Head, Policy Office
Division of Institution & Award Support
National Science Foundation