ALERT: Grants.gov February 6 – 9, 2010 Maintenance Outage

In order to bring a major upgrade to the Grants.gov system (referred to as the “boost”) into production, it is necessary to bring Grants.gov off-line from 00:01 AM ET on February 6, 2010 until 11:59 PM on February 9, 2010. The entire Grants.gov system will be unavailable during that time.

The upgrade will further increase the capacity of Grants.gov, along with the system’s reliability and its ability to sustain continuous high volume activity. We have done our best to minimize the length of the maintenance outage necessary to bring these improvements into production.

We are working closely with agencies that previously posted closing deadlines during the outage period to minimize any impact on the agencies or their applicants. Agencies with previously posted closing deadlines on February 6 – 9, 2010 are taking appropriate steps to ensure applicants are able to apply for these posted opportunities. Please note the outage period, and any agency instructions for particular grant opportunities, and plan accordingly when applying for grants in the early February time period.

We apologize for any inconvenience this outage period may cause.

Regards,
Grants.gov PMO

ALERT: Grants.gov January 9, 2010 Maintenance Outage

It is necessary to bring Grants.gov off-line for fifty nine minutes January 9, 2010 from 00:01 until 1:00 AM ET to implement the forms production build. The entire Grants.gov system will be unavailable during this time.

This build will implement fourteen new forms and update thirty-nine forms that are associated with SF 424 Family. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Grants.gov PMO staff.

Regards,
Grants.gov PMO

Implementing a Maintenance process for the Testing Environment (AT07)

We are implementing a maintenance process for the Testing Environment (AT07) where we will be taking AT07 offline weekly on Monday and Thursday evenings from midnight through 2:00 AM EST.

This regular maintenance will ensure AT07 (our testing environment only)has sufficient memory to meet the needs of our customer base. No enhancements will occur in this process.



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Grants.gov PMO

Grants.gov Fiscal Year 2009 Annual Report

Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 was a year of great growth for Grants.gov. In FY 2009 Grants.gov processed 309,771 applications which was a 53% increase over the 202,133 applications processed in FY 2008.

There were 64,409 applications processed for Recovery Act specific opportunities posted on the site. This represents 21% of the total applications processed in FY 2009. For more detailed information on FY 2009 please see the Grants.gov FY2009 Annual Report:

-- http://www.grants.gov/assets/AnnualReport2009.pdf

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Grants.gov PMO