Congressional Award Notice System. Effective Date: 02/20/2009 The Congressional Award Notice System requires the AO to notify the Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs (LPA) when they make certain awards to U.S. organizations. a. AOs must follow the notice procedures in ADS 302man, Congressional Award Notice. This requires the AO to provide notice to LPA AFTER signing but BEFORE releasing, or allowing to be released, an announcement of the awards listed below. This restriction on announcing the award applies to notifying the awardee that the award has been signed. For further details, see Section II, Other Considerations of that same document. b. Types of awards that require notice include the following: (1) Awards of any value to an organization that has not previously received an award from USAID. (2) Any award with which there was Congressional correspondence during the pre-award stage. The Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs (LPA) will alert the AO that such correspondence has occurred, and the AO will flag the award as falling under these notice criteria and procedures. (3) Any award for a particular program or geographic region that the operating unit or LPA identifies as being of particular interest to Congress, the Agency, or the general public; for example, earthquake relief in Haiti or the international HIV/AIDS program. LPA will coordinate with its liaison in the operating unit to identify these awards and will alert the operating unit, the AO, or both of them at the earliest opportunity before the award decision. (4) Grants, cooperative agreements, and any amendment to them with a total estimated amount or increase in the total estimated amount of US
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Samples: Grants and Cooperative Agreements, Grants and Cooperative Agreements, Grants and Cooperative Agreements
Congressional Award Notice System. Effective Date: 02/20/2009 The Congressional Award Notice System requires the AO to notify the Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs (LPA) when they make certain awards to U.S. organizations.
a. AOs must follow the notice procedures in ADS 302man, Congressional Award Notice. This requires the AO to provide notice to LPA AFTER signing but BEFORE releasing, or allowing to be released, an announcement of the awards listed below. This restriction on announcing the award applies to notifying the awardee that the award has been signed. For further details, see Section II, Other Considerations of that same document.
b. Types of awards that require notice include the following:
(1) Awards of any value to an organization that has not previously received an award from USAID.
(2) Any award with which there was Congressional correspondence during the pre-award stage. The Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs (LPA) will alert the AO that such correspondence has occurred, and the AO will flag the award as falling under these notice criteria and procedures.
(3) Any award for a particular program or geographic region that the operating unit or LPA identifies as being of particular interest to Congress, the Agency, or the general public; for example, earthquake relief in Haiti or the international HIV/AIDS program. LPA will coordinate with its liaison in the operating unit to identify these awards and will alert the operating unit, the AO, or both of them at the earliest opportunity before the award decision.the
(4) Grants, cooperative agreements, and any amendment to them with a total estimated amount or increase in the total estimated amount of US
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Samples: Grants and Cooperative Agreements
