ICF International—an SEI
CMMi Level 2 organization and member of the National
Grants Management Association—offers
information technology and business process solutions
to grants management challenges for U.S. federal
and state governments. CMMI is the worldwide
standard of excellence for software
engineering using methodology developed
by the Software Engineering Institutes
methodology.
Our 25 years of experience gives us a firm grasp
of the technology and business process challenges
you’re facing—from improving customer
service and security to
decreasing time to award and administrative costs.
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Through our experience in implementing grant management
solutions (GMS), we have developed support capabilities
to assist organizations in efficiently automating their
grants management process. These include:
- Grants system review,
architecture, planning, design, and development
- Business
process analysis and improvement
- Grants management readiness
reviews and assessments
- Post-award program management and
performance evaluation
- Organizational change management
and communications
- Training and technical assistance
- Workforce planning and
management
OUR SOLUTION
ICF International's award-winning
grants management solution encompasses
a portfolio of strategies that can improve your grants
processes while leveraging a proven information technology
architecture. GMS offers an end-to-end solution designed
with the flexibility to meet your agency’s
specific needs. It is a full life cycle grants
management solution enabling your grants application
and management processes to seamlessly integrate
with your back office information systems and processes.
The
system is currently used at two major federal agencies—the U.S.
Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice
Programs (OJP),
and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of
Domestic Preparedness. For
the GMS developed for DOJ
OJP, ICF International was
awarded the E-Gov
2003 Explorer Award for outstanding innovations
in E-Government and was
a Finalist as part of a team for the Excellence in Government Awards in
2002.
ICF International can help your agency
through:
- Application development and maintenance
- Grants management
business process analysis and improvement
- Implementation
and customization
- Organizational change management and
communications
- Grants management program and performance
evaluation
- Grants management readiness reviews and assessments
- Training
and technical assistance
- Workforce planning and management
The ICF International GMS is Web services
enabled to integrate with your rules, procedures, and
systems. It automates grants processing
and provides a standardized comprehensive system to
support grants management, saving time in the application,
review, approval and notification processes. It can
also track post award activities and support post award
reporting requirements. Benefits of the system include:
- Reducing the burden on applicants
- Decreasing the time to award
- Reducing administrative costs
- Increasing information security
- Providing the ability to manage grants from various
agencies
- Measuring the effectiveness of grant programs
- Managing staff and grant resources more efficiently
Core
or base functionality include application generation/presentation,
award generation, search, and audit trail. Using our
role-based system, a grant-making agency can define
a customized life cycle through a set of administrative
functions that allow an agency to customize the process
flow for each grant solicitation. Grant management
processing includes:
- Peer review
- Sub-grant management
- Grant close-out
- Progress reporting
- Grant monitoring
- Award notification
The system has been in production since 1999, is
highly reliable and secure, and supports Federal Enterprise
Architecture standards. It has been used to process
thousands of grant applications, submitted by hundreds
of users—more than $7 billion in grants in Fiscal
Year 2005. It is being considered as one of the U.S.
Federal Government’s
Grants Management Line of Business back-office solutions
for the Office of Management and Budget
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