Articles by Scott S. Sheffler

Last Monday, March 25, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a report addressing vulnerabilities in HHS’s implementation of its Small Business Innovation Research (“SBIR”) program.  This report is a follow up to a 2014 OIG report describing improvements the…

  New guidance clarifies ability of RWHAP providers to partner with city, county, and local jails for HIV/AIDS care and medication and carries  340B program implications. As 2018 comes to a close, we wanted to share some updates on important Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (“RWHAP”) guidance. The HIV/AIDS Bureau (“HAB”)…

Contact: Scott Sheffler 202.466.8960   FTLF Partner Scott Sheffler to Co-Chair New ABA Grant Law Committee Washington, D.C. – Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP is pleased to announce partner Scott Sheffler’s role in establishing a Grant Law Committee within the ABA’s Public Contract Law Section. This newly formed committee is…

Providing much needed flexibility for many federal grant and cooperative agreement recipients, the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) has issued an exception to the Uniform Guidance Procurement Standards[1], increasing the: Simplified Acquisition Threshold (“SAT”) from $150,000 to $250,000, and Micro-Purchase Threshold (“MPT”) from $3,500 to $10,000. This OMB-issued exception…

Pay attention to the Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency Act of 2018, aka the GREAT Act (H.R. 4887). The GREAT Act could be the beginning of Federal Financial Report (“FFR,” SF-425) data being posted on the Internet. On January 29, 2018, this must-watch bill for the grantee community was…