April 4, 2019
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 [...]
November 29, 2018
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 [...]
September 27, 2018
On September 26th, 2018, the Office of Head Start (OHS) pushed back the date for Head Start programs to come into compliance with the Head Start Program Performance Standards’ comprehensive background check and [...]
September 17, 2018
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 [...]
June 25, 2018
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 [...]
April 6, 2018
In March, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) posted a new Work Plan item. The announcement of a forthcoming audit report by the Office of Audit Services caught my eye: We will review [...]
March 23, 2018
Jerry Bertrand will bring his considerable experience in Grants and Financial Management to FTLF’s 2018 Federal Funding Academy. Jerry Bertrand will present on operationalizing the internal controls standards and requirements applicable to [...]
February 26, 2018
Tick-Tock – Why Your Employees Must Put in the Effort to Track Their Time by Ted Waters, Managing Partner, Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell On February 16, 2018, the University of North Texas Health [...]
February 13, 2018
On February 9, President Trump signed into law the long-awaited Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Pub. Law 115-123). The major spending bill reauthorizes a total of $7.8 billion dollars in funding for [...]
February 6, 2018
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 [...]