October 5, 2015
Part II: Cost Allocation and Indirect Cost Rates The Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) and the Council on Financial Assistance Reform (“COFAR”) released additional clarifications to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Costs Principles, [...]
September 29, 2015
Part I: COFAR and the Extension of the Procurement Standards Grace Period On September 9, 2015 the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) and the Council on Financial Assistance Reform (“COFAR”) released new [...]
September 16, 2015
On Tuesday, September 15, Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP, responded to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) published on June 19, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 35430). FTLF’s comments are not indented to be [...]
July 16, 2015
On June 19, 2015, The Office of Head Start (OHS) issued the long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the Head Start Performance Standards. OHS last revised the Performance Standards in 1998 and [...]
June 10, 2015
On February 10, 2015, the Office of Head Start (“OHS”) issued new eligibility regulations as a Final Rule. Just in case you missed the last page of the new regulations, we want to [...]
December 22, 2014
12/19/2014 On December 19, 2014, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) along with all federal award-making agencies published the implementing regulations for the Supercircular (aka Omnicircular) in the Federal Register [...]
December 15, 2014
Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP is pleased to announce that it has named Carrie Bill Riley as partner. “Carrie is an all-around superstar, not only going the extra mile for her clients with [...]
November 10, 2014
In recent policy guidance, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has included “civil legal aid services” as an example of eligibility assistance and additional [...]
September 15, 2014
The Supercircular, 2 CFR Part 200, creates a critical new step for grantees that enter into arrangements with Subrecipients (also known as “delegates” in HS/EHS terminology). Prior to awarding funds to a delegate, [...]
August 29, 2014
The Office of Head Start (“OHS”) recently released a new Information Memorandum (IM), “ACF-IM-HS-14-04,” addressing bus transportation and safety. Child safety and active supervision have been hot button issues in Head Start/EHS. In fact, [...]