“The office in charge of building a governmentwide shared services ecosystem for grants management plans to launch a new website and marketplace by the end of 2021 and have all federal service providers onboarded by mid-year.
The Quality Service Management Office, or QSMO, idea launched in April 2019 with the goal of creating four shared services centers around key needs for all federal agencies: grants management, cybersecurity, human resources and financial accounting. At that time, leaders in the Office of Management and Budget knew which agencies would likely lead these efforts, though official designations didn’t start coming until a year later…”
“The HHS Grants Management QSMO is well on its way, according to Executive Director Chad Clifford.
‘The government spends well over $1 trillion in grants, and that’s been increasing,’ Clifford said Thursday during Nextgov’s Roadmap to Modernization event, noting agencies spend more annually on grants than procurement of goods and services. ‘We’re trying to drive shared services through a federal government marketplace that agencies can utilize where they will get guarantees about the level of quality and modernization of functionality.’…”
“One of the federal services looking to make an early entrance to the marketplace is the team at GrantSolutions.gov, an existing grants management shared services provider that serves HHS along with other federal grantors.
Julius Chang, director of strategic initiatives for GrantSolutions.gov’s System and Support Services Division, said his team has a machine learning-powered tool about to be deployed that they hope to make available through the marketplace when it launches…” Read the full article here.
Source: Grants Management Shared Services Marketplace Set to Launch by End of 2021 – By Aaron Boyd, September 24, 2021. Nextgov.
