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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESOURCES
Grants, Contracts, and Auctions
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Last updated on August 29,
2018
- Catalog of
Federal Domestic Assistance
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- Describes federal programs providing funds to individuals, private organizations, and state and
local governments
- Searchable by keyword or agency
- Provides name of program, agency, laws and regulations, purpose
of grant, application process, sample grants awarded in past, and
contact name
- System for Award
Management Beta Version replaced the CFDA in 2018
- Community of
Science (UMich Only)
- Education
Department Grants
- Grants, contracts, and other funding opportunities from the U.S.
Department of Education
- Searchable by subject, applicant eligibility, type of assistance,
and level of education
- Information includes program description, legislative authority,
eligibility, appropriations, and contact information
- A subset of the larger Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance
- Federal Register
- New regulations, proposed regulations, notices of grants and agency hearings
- Can be used to updated the Catalog of Federal
Domestic Assistance
- Federal Register via
Congressional Universe (UMich Only)
- Approach by date, agency, type of information, keyword, and
CFR citation
- Covers 1980+
- Federal
Register
via GPO Access
- New regulations, proposed regulations, and notices of grants and agency hearings
- Updates the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
- Keyword searching only
- Best public source of Federal Register
- Grant
Resources by State (The Grantsmanship Center)
- Arranged by state with links to that state's top foundations,
community foundations, and corporate giving programs
- Grants
and Related Resources (MSU)
- Extensive annotated guide to print and electronic resources for
grants at the Michigan State University Libraries
- Includes grants by subject, grants for individuals, and grantsmanship
- Search MIRLYN/Web
for the location of materials at the University of Michigan
- Part 2 covers web resources, both government and non-government
- Grants.gov
- Extensive list of downloadable grant application packages
- Green
Book (GPO)
- Overview and statistics on federal government entitlement programs
- Hypertext version of annual House Ways and Means Committee Print
- Searchable only
- Guide to
Funding Resources (USDA)
- Types of grants and how to develop a proposal
- Bibliography of grant resources, including comprehensive sources and
funding targeted to different groups (elderly, disabled)
- Guidestar
(UMich Only)
- Database of 1.5 million non-profit organizations in the United
States, including 10,000 foundations
- Covers arts, the environment, communities, and health services
- Searchable by organization name, subject, place, and category
- To search for grant-providing foundations, use the IRS code:
501(c)(3)
- Provides purpose of the organization, program reports and
considerable financial information, including 990 reports from the
mid-1990s
- The Guidestar public
version is searchable but only provides the address and
phone number
- How to Locate Small
Business Grants, Government Grants, and Other Grant
Money
- Free videos illustrating searchs for the Foundation Center,
Guidestar, and grants.gov
- Non-Profit Gateway
- Search for federal grants and non-financial assistance by agency or
keyword
- Links to laws, regulations, and budgets for federal assistance
- Rural Development Grants
(USDA)
- Describes business and economic development grants from the Rural
Development Administration
- Scholarship,
Loan, Grant and Fellowship Resources (UMich)
- Annotated guide to educational financing
- Government and private sources
- Students.gov
- Sections on planning post-secondary education from freshman to
graduate level as well as study abroad
- Annotated guide to government grants and loans
- U.S.
State
and Local Gateway / Competitive Grants
- Competitive grants for state and local governments
- Government Loans
- Browse all government business, disaster, education, housing, and
veteran loans to determine eligibility
- You can also determine the loans for which you are eligibile by
answering a question
- Small Business
Administration
- Students.gov
- Sections on planning post-secondary education from freshman to
graduate level as well as study abroad
- Annotated guide to government grants and loans
- Government
Benefits
- Select your personal (homeowner, child, victim, senior, veteran, etc.)
- You can choose to view all of the federal programs in that category or
fill in a 60-question sheet further defining your characteristics
- Search results provide a list of federal programs for which you may be
eligible with a brief description, a related web site, and application
contacts
- Michigan
Assistance and Referral Services
- Fill in a questionnaire with your personal information
- The web site will suggest programs for which you may be eligible
- In addition, there are income estimators for determining eligibility
and application assistance
- Federal Assistance
Award Data System
- Quarterly reports since 1996 on government grants and assistance programs for individuals,
organizations, and state and local governments
- Summary files available for each county in the nation
- Detailed files for entire state give information on each individual award
- Detailed tables must be downloaded by state and decompressed
- ASCII files can be manipulated by spreadsheet and include CFDA program number, recipient,
geographic codes (state, county, city, zip
code, Congressional District), starting date, ending date, amount
- A complete list of table headings appears in the FAADS
Guide
- Consolidated
Federal Funds Report
- Federal grants, contracts, and entitlements to states, states and individuals
- Viewable/Downloadable Data is arranged by state and then county
- The On Line Query System is searchable by state or county and program
- Covers 1996+
- USA
Spending
- Detailed information on federal government grants and contracts
awarded since FY 2004
- Use tabs for separate account of contracts, subcontracts,
assistance and loans
- Search by top recipients, names congressional districts,
government agency and competition or product type
- Numerous graphs and charts
- Contract
Award Types (DARPA)
- Types of contracts awarded by the Defense Department based on
price
- Federal
Government Contract Overview (FINDLAW)
- Overview of the types of contracts, aquisitions methods, bidding,
and handling disputes
- Commerce Business Daily
- Daily bid requests (RFPs) for goods and services to be purchased by the
federal government
- Covers December 2, 1996 through January 2, 2002
- Replaced by Federal Business
Opportunities
- Community of
Science (UMich Only)
- Federal
Acquisitions Jump Station (NASA)
- Lists web sites of government procurement agencies
- Federal
Acquisitions Regulations (GSA)
- Current purchasing rules for the federal government
- Web site also includes updating circulars and forms
- Federal Business
Opportunities
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- Daily publication of government contract notices over $25,000
- Browsable by agency and searchable for the past eight weeks by keyword, set-aside, broad
type of product
- Information about the contracts also includes name of awardee when available
- Replaces Commerce Business Daily
- Federal Electronic Commerce
- Web site on electronic transactions between the federal government
and business
- Links to federal and a few state agency web pages providing for
electronic transactions
- Includes monthly statistics on electronic transactions by federal
agency since January 1996
- Federal Marketplace
- Numerous free services include Federal Acquisitions
Regulations; lists of federal, state and selected foreign
acquisition web sites; SIC and FIPS codes
- Additonal subscription services assist businesses in obtaining
federal contracts
- Procurement
Laws
- Links to federal laws and public contracts
- Acquisitions regulations of the Executive Branch
- Specifications
- Consolidated
Federal Funds Report
- Federal grants, contracts, and entitlements to states, states and individuals
- Viewable/Downloadable Data is arranged by state and then county
- The On Line Query System is searchable by state or county and program
- Covers 1996+
- DOE Research and Development
Project Summaries
- Searchable index to 12,000 current energy contracts
- Includes recipient, award monies and project summaries
- Federal Procurement Data
Center (GSA)
- Statistics since 2000 on government contracting by state
- Includes the top government contractors and the top awardees (civliian
and defense contracts) per state,
- Description of special reports which can be purchased from the FPDC which describe
who bought what from whom for how much and when
- Initial registration required
- Federal R&D Project
Summaries (Dept. of Energy)
- Project summaries of contracts given by the Department of Energy,
National Science Foundation, and National Institutes of Health
- Most are dated in the 1990s
- Very brief project summary, funding, person and organization
responsible, web site if available, and project completion date
- Funded
Research/National Science Foundation (Community of Science)
- NSF research indexed since 1986 and updated weekly
- Approach by subject, institution, researcher's name or geographic
area
- Government
Contracts Won
- Searchable database of defense contracts awarded since 2000
- Search by contractor (e.g. Boeing), product, or keyword
- Data includes the amount awarded each year, name of the weapon
system, and a link to additional information
- Military
Contracts
- Describes records at the National Archives for military
contracts, FY1966-FY1975
- National Technical Information
Service
- NTIS publishes government-contracted reports
- Use pulldown menu to search NTIS Technical Reports
and type in keyword
- Search results list publication, contractor, and agency providing
funds but not the award monies
- Top 200 Government
Contractors
- Search names of top 200 defense and civilian contractors by name,
agency, contract category, and rank
- Listing provides the organization's percentage share of
contracts
- USA
Spending
- Detailed information on federal government grants and contracts
awarded since FY 2004
- Use tabs for separate account of contracts, subcontracts,
assistance and loans
- Search by top recipients, names congressional districts,
government agency and competition or product type
- Numerous graphs and charts
- GovSales
- Federal government auctions arranged by type of product (e.g.
jewelry, computers
- Provides description, number of bids, bid price, and closing
time/date
- Shopping
and Auctions (Firstgov)
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- Federal and state auctions by agency and type of good (e.g. real estate, cars)
- Federal shopping by agency for items such as souvenirs, national park guides, Census
data, posters, investments
- State and
Local Surplus Property
- Links to state web sites selling surplus property (e.g. computers,
furniture)
- Treasury
Auctions
- Government auctions for property seized by the IRS and for
criminal seizures
- Links to other federal auction pages (e.g. housing, small
business)
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Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
Ankur Mehta, Documents Assistant, May 2002
The University of Michigan Library
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