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Administrative requirements

"General Conditions" for OJP Awards in FY 2023

OJP expects that all (or virtually all) awards made in FY 2023 will include all of the award conditions set out below.

Individual awards typically also will include additional award conditions. Those additional conditions may relate to the particular statute, program, or solicitation under which the award is made; to the substance of the funded application; to the recipient's performance under other federal awards; to...

"General Conditions" for OJP Awards in FY 2022

OJP expects that all (or virtually all) awards made in FY 2022 will include all of the award conditions set out below.

Individual awards typically also will include additional award conditions. Those additional conditions may relate to the particular statute, program, or solicitation under which the award is made; to the substance of the funded application; to the recipient's performance under other federal awards; to...

Grantee Update #3: Updated Guidance on Short Term Administrative Relief for Grantees Impacted by COVID-19

June 22, 2020

Dear OJP Award Recipients—

On June 18, 2020, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued OMB memorandum M-20-26, “Extension of Administrative Relief for Recipients and Applicants of Federal Financial Assistance Directly Impacted by the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) due to Loss of Operations,” extending certain flexibilities for administrative relief to funding recipients affected by the loss of operational capacity due to...

2019 OJP Grant Application Resource Guide

Archival Notice

This is an archive page that is no longer being updated, it is provided for reference purposes only.  It was current when produced, but is no longer being maintained, the content may be outdated and may contain links that no longer function as originally intended.  Please visit the current OJP Grant Application Resource Guide for the latest updates and resources.

The 2019 Office of...

Grantee Update #2: Guidance on Short Term Administrative Relief for Grantees Impacted by COVID-19

March 21, 2020

Dear OJP Award Recipients—

On March 19, 2020, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued OMB memorandum M-20-17, “Administrative Relief for Recipients and Applicants of Federal Financial Assistance Directly Impacted by the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) due to Loss of Operations,” affording Federal awarding agencies with additional flexibilities to provide administrative relief to funding recipients affected by the loss of...

What the New OMB Uniform Guidance Means

The Office of Management and Budget's Uniform Guidance combines previous guidance and circulars on Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles and Audit Requirements for Federal awards into one streamlined government wide framework for grants management. The new Uniform Guidance is effective for grants and cooperative agreements awarded on or after December 26, 2014. The Uniform Guidance will...

Award Condition: Reporting Subawards and Executive Compensation (Updated as of December 2023)

The following award condition is incorporated by reference into certain OJP awards made on or after October 1, 2010. (To determine whether this condition applies to a particular OJP award, refer to the conditions that accompany the award document.)

Award Term and Condition:

Reporting Subawards ("Subgrants") and Executive Compensation

Section A. Reporting of first-tier subawards

  1. Applicability. Unless the recipient is exempt as provided in...

Award Condition: Specific post-award approval required to use a noncompetitive approach in a procurement contract (if contract would exceed $250,000)

The following award condition is specifically incorporated by reference in many OJP awards made during or after 2016.

Important Note: This condition concerns agreements that -- for purposes of federal grants administrative requirements -- OJP considers procurement "contracts." It does not apply to agreements that (for purposes of federal grants administrative requirements) OJP considers "subawards" (also sometimes referred to as "subgrants"). For information on the...

Award Condition: System for Award Management (SAM) and Universal Identifier Requirements

The following award condition is incorporated by reference into most OJP awards made on or after July 15, 2013. This award term and condition is not incorporated in awards to individuals who received the award as a natural person (i.e., unrelated to any business or non-profit organization that he or she may own or operate in his or her name).

Award Condition:

System for Award...

Part 200 Uniform Requirements

Background

  • On December 26, 2014, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published the Uniform Guidance: Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards in the Federal Register.
  • Uniform Guidance, sometimes referred to as the “Supercircular” or “Omnicircular” provides a streamlined government-wide framework for grants administration and management that consolidates requirements from eight OMB Circulars.
  • The Uniform Guidance was the result of...

"General Conditions" for OJP Awards in FY 2020

May 2020

OJP expects that all (or virtually all) awards made in FY 2020 will include all of the award conditions set out below.

Individual awards typically also will include additional award conditions. Those additional conditions may relate to the particular statute, program, or solicitation under which the award is made; to the substance of the funded application; to the recipient's performance under other federal...