System Status Update

Our technical team continues to make progress in restoring the system. Our next update will be at approximately 7:00 PM ET. At that time we will be able to provide you with a concrete time for when the still up and operational.

For guidance on submissions that are due today: you can contact the Agency Contact in your application package/instructions or the Grants.gov Contact Center at 1-800-518-4726 or support@grants.gov.

System Status Update

The Grants.gov system issues have been identified and repaired. Our technical team is in process of restoring the system which may take several hours. There is no indication of data loss at this time.

For guidance on submissions that are due today: you can contact the Agency Contact in your application package/instructions or the Grants.gov Contact Center at 1-800-518-4726 or support@grants.gov.

Our next update will be at approximately 5:00 PM ET.

System Status Update

We have isolated the issue and have made progress with repairing and restoring Grants.gov.

Please continue to monitor the blog for updates. The next update is planned for 2:00 PM ET.

We thank you for your patience.

The Grants.gov PMO

Grants.gov System Down Friday October 15, 2010

Grants.gov experienced a hardware failure during the night that has resulted in the entire system being down. Vendor technicians have been on site since before 6 am to diagnose and repair the failure. Additional time will be required to restore the database and restart the system. We expect that Grants.gov will be down for most of today, October 15. We plan to provide a further update no later than 11 am ET this morning. We will work with the agencies throughout the day to minimize the impact of this outage and to identify further guidance that application submitters may require. For now, please do not attempt to submit applications or otherwise access the Grants.gov web site until further notice. Our apologies for any inconvenience.

Grants.gov PMO

New Security Features Implemented

Grants.gov has successfully implemented the Security Build. Our system is back online and available. We appreciate your patience during this important system upgrade.

For more details and to view the WebEx session that explain the changes to the system please visit http://www.grants.gov/securitybuild/.

If you are an E-Business Point of Contact please visit http://www.grants.gov/securitycommebiz/ for more details.

Regards,

Grants.gov PMO

System Outage: October 9 - 10, 2010

In order to implement the Security Build to the Grants.gov system into production, it is necessary to bring Grants.gov off-line from 12:01 A.M. ET on October 9, 2010 until 11:59 P.M. ET on October 10, 2010. The entire Grants.gov system will be unavailable during that time.

We apologize for any inconvenience this outage period may cause.

For more details and to view the WebEx session that explain the changes to the system and what to expect once the security build is in place, please visit http://www.grants.gov/securitybuild/.

If you are an E-Business Point of Contact please visit http://www.grants.gov/securitycommebiz/ for more details.

Regards,

Grants.gov PMO

Upcoming System Performance Evaluation

All:

Grants.gov will be undergoing performance evaluation on the weekend of September 18th at 2:01 A.M. through September 19th at 11:59 P.M. The system will remain available; however, users may experience slow responses for general functions such as opportunity search, applicant registration, application submission and application tracking.

Regards,
Grants.gov PMO Staff