Grants.gov Quarterly Stakeholder Webcast, Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 1:00 to 2:00 PM ET

Please join us tomorrow for our Grants.gov Quarterly Stakeholder Webcast, Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 1:00 to 2:00 PM ET.

You can view the webcast by accessing the following link:

http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=9446

Grants.gov System Maintenance for 7/17/2010 0001 ET

Grants.gov “Static Content” will be unavailable for approximately one hour beginning 07/17/2010 0001 (ET) due to system maintenance. After which the system will return to normal operation. A maintenance page with the information below will also be posted for your convenience. If you don't see the maintenance page, after entering http://www.grants.gov/, the system is ready for normal operations.

The following functionality IS NOT affected:

Applicants

GUI Login and S2S functions, including submissions
The following link is provided for your convenience:

https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/logincontrol.jsp?goto=./secured/ApplicantLogin.jsp&loginpage=/jsp/ApplicantLoginGetID.jsp

Grantors

GUI Login and S2S operations including retrieval
The following link is provided for your convenience:

https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/logincontrol.jsp?goto=./secured/AgencyLogin.jsp&loginpage=/jsp/GrantorGetID.jsp

Sorry for the short notice but this will allow us to update the static site with notices and other content much easier than we can now.

AT07 System Maintenance - Updated 7/16/2010 0730 ET

7/16/2010 0730 ET - The maintenance referenced below occurred as planned and was successful, the "Static Content" portion of the site was only down for 15 minutes. AT07 is back on-line and operational as of this post.

AT07 “Static Content” will be unavailable for approximately one hour tonight, 07/15/2010, beginning at 11pm (ET) due to system maintenance. After which the system will return to normal operation. A maintenance page with the information below will also be posted for your convenience. If you don't see the maintenance page, after entering http://www.grants.gov/, the system is ready for normal operations.

The following functionality IS NOT affected:

Applicants

GUI Login and S2S functions, including submissions

The following link is provided for your convenience:

https://at07apply.grants.gov/apply/logincontrol.jsp?goto=./secured/ApplicantLogin.jsp&loginpage=/jsp/ApplicantLoginGetID.jsp

Grantors

GUI Login and S2S operations including retrieval

The following link is provided for your convenience:

https://at07apply.grants.gov/apply/logincontrol.jsp?goto=./secured/AgencyLogin.jsp&loginpage=/jsp/GrantorGetID.jsp

Sorry for the short notice but this will allow us to update the static site with notices and other content much easier than we can now.

The Production Grants.gov site will be updated at 0001 on Saturday 7/17/2010, a separate post will follow.

Dun and Bradstreet Is Operational

Dun and Bradstreet services have been restored.

Dun and Bradstreet is down

Grants.gov was informed today that Dun and Bradstreet has been down since yesterday, at June 28, 2010 as of 10:00 AM ET.

Notice from their website: http://fedgov.dnb.com/webform

"Alert: D&B is experiencing widespread technical issues. US DUNS fulfillment may be delayed and US and International registration in CCR may be impacted."

Registration and issuance of DUNS numbers to organizations is effected.

Grants.gov Down-time Due to System Build

July 24 – 25, 2010: Grants.gov will be unavailable due to System Build – 2010-02.
Grants.gov will be unavailable Saturday and Sunday, July 24 and 25, 2010 from 12:01 a.m. EDT through Sunday, July 25, 2010 23:59 p.m. EDT due to System Build – 2010-02. Although the site may be visible at times, the system will be unavailable to Find and Apply for opportunities during this time. The maintenance taking place is to enhance system functionality and add new features. More information will be available on these system enhancements on the Site Features and Enhancements page.

The Grants.gov training environment, AT07, will be unavailable all day Monday, July 26, 2010 from 12:01 a.m. EDT through 23:59 a.m. EDT due to System Build – 2010-02. Although the site will be visible, the system will not be at full functionality until the notice is removed. Usage of the site during the system build is not recommended.

Taking AT07 offline at 12:00-12:30 AM ET, May 4, 2010.

All:

We will be taking AT07 offline for 30 minutes at midnight (12:00 AM ET) May 4, 2010 in order to resolve an issue experienced in accessing login pages using the latest versions of Firefox and IE8. Please note that this issue has only been experienced in the AT07 environment.

AT07 will be back up at 12:30 AM ET, May 4, 2010.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Ed