Monthly Webinar | How to Get Sub-Awardees to Understand and Follow the Rules: A Lifecycle Approach to Uniform Guidance Compliance-Video Recording

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The NGMA webinar, featuring Ernst & Young consultants Joey DeSantis and William Treanor, provided an in-depth overview of managing sub-awardees under evolving federal grants regulations, focusing on uniform guidance updates and compliance. Key highlights include:<br /><br />1. Recent federal trends show increased oversight, accountability, political alignment, transparency, and efforts to reduce administrative burden while encouraging broader access to grants. Significant regulatory changes initiated in 2024, including revised uniform guidance (2 CFR Part 200) and executive orders, emphasize fraud prevention, streamlined grantmaking, and enhanced monitoring.<br /><br />2. The presenters reviewed the grant lifecycle—pre-award, award, post-award, and closeout—detailing responsibilities of federal agencies, prime recipients, and sub-awardees in compliance, reporting, and risk management.<br /><br />3. Uniform guidance clarifies distinctions between sub-awardees and contractors and reiterates sub-recipient monitoring requirements such as risk assessments, verifying audit compliance, and enforcing corrective actions.<br /><br />4. Two real-world case studies illustrated challenges in multi-agency coordination, resource constraints, and diverse compliance demands, highlighting strategies like implementing centralized monitoring tools, standardized procedures, technical assistance, and relationship building with sub-awardees.<br /><br />5. A recommended sub-awardee monitoring framework includes risk-based planning, clear communication of compliance requirements, ongoing monitoring via desk reviews and site visits, audit follow-ups, issue resolution, and continuous improvement through lessons learned.<br /><br />Attendees engaged with polling on challenges and best practices for sub-awardee oversight. The session closed with Q&A addressing specific regulatory questions and reaffirmed NGMA’s commitment to supporting grant professionals through upcoming training and events.

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