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Administration for Children and Families

HHS ACF Memo

ARPA-E

ARPA-E Memo

CDC

Memo from Jeffrey L. Napier, MBA CPCM,Head of Contracting Activity

• Notice to contractors that possible that your contracts may be affected.  Examples of this impact could include:  not exercising an option on your contracts or negotiating lower prices or other terms via a bilateral modification to meet the constraints imposed by sequestration.  Additionally, plans for new contracts may be re-scoped, delayed, or canceled depending on the nature of the work and the availability of resources
• Budget cuts do not affect contract awards made with fiscal year 2012 resources

Department of Defense

Council on Government Relations

• New awards for CDMRP research will be delayed (email from DOD 3/1/13)
• Clear R&D contracts above $500 million with the Under Secretary of Defense
• DOD currently stands to lose more than $6.5 billion a year in R&D funding
• DOD senior research officials have estimated that DOD university research for FY13 will be cut by some $300M

 DOD Link

Department of Education

Testimony by Secretary Arne Duncan to the Senate Appropriations Committee on the Possible Impact of Sequestration

• The law specifically exempts Pell Grants from sequestration. 
• Special rule on student loans that specifies a small increase in the origination fee for loans made after the sequester order.

Testimony Dept of Education

Department of Energy

American Institute of Biological Sciences

Letter from Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, 2/1/13

Memo from Daniel B. Poneman
Deputy Secretary
U.S. Department of Energy

• Contracts: may decide not to exercise an option, negotiate lower prices or other terms via a bilateral modification to meet the constraints imposed by sequestration, may also determine it necessary to stop or suspend work, reduce the scope of work, or partially or completely terminate your contract for convenience.
• Planned contract actions for new work may be re-scoped, delayed, or canceled depending on the nature of t he work and the degree to which it directly supports the agency's mission goals.
• Grants: may decide not to issue a continuation award- including not awarding incremental funds on multi-year awards- and may require negotiation of a reduction in the scope of your award.
• To the extent that your contract or financial assistance agreement is affected due to these budget cuts, you will be contacted by the appropriate Contracting Officer

Agency Memo

HRSA

Michael J. Nelson
Associate Administrator
Office of Federal Assistance Management
Health Resources and Services Administration 3/4/13

• Possible that your grants or cooperative agreement awards may be affected. Examples of this impact could include: not issuing continuation awards, not awarding incremental funds on multi-year awards, or negotiating a reduction in the scope of your awards to meet the constraints imposed by sequestration. Additionally, plans for new grants may be re-scoped, delayed, or canceled depending on the nature of the work and the availability of resources.

NASA

• The NASA Administrator has indicated furloughs are not contemplated for employees at this time
• $726M will be cut from FY13 budget levels, affecting space exploration and other plans.
• The NASA CFO will be issuing an agency planning memo and directives on sequestration soon

NASA Agency Memo

NCI

Message to Grantees About NCI Funding and Grant Support for FY2013 May 7, 2013

• reductions in ongoing (non-competing) grants (about 6%), centers and other research programs (6.5%), and research and development contracts (8.5%)

Varmus MeNIGmo

NIDA

NIDA Funding Strategy for Fiscal Year 2013, revised May 2013

• Non-Competing Continuation Awards:  
• Consistent with overall NIH policy every effort will be made to keep the average size of awards constant at FY 2012 levels.
• Non-competing awards will be issued without cost of living/inflationary adjustments in FY 2013.
• FY 2013 awards that have already been issued will be revised to adjust the award level.
• R13 and RSDAs continuation awards will be funded at committed, including co-funds.
• Modular and Non-modular continuation awards will be funded at approximately 96% of committed levels, including co-funds.
• NSRAs (Fs and Ts) will be issued at the FY 2012 stipend levels.

NIGMS

Budget Outlook May 8, 2013

• Inflationary increases will be discontinued for all competing and noncompeting awards (both modular and nonmodular).
• All noncompeting grants will be reduced by 3.5% from the Fiscal Year 2013 committed level.
• Commitments in Fiscal Year 2014 and beyond will remain unchanged.
• Overall average costs for competing RPGs will be at approximately the Fiscal Year 2012 level. Inflationary increases for future-year commitments will be discontinued.
• Fiscal Year 2013 noncompeting awards that have already been issued at a reduced level will be revised upward to reflect the 3.5% reduction.
• New investigators on R01-equivalent awards will be supported at a success rate equivalent to that of established investigators submitting new (Type 1) R01-equivalent applications.
• We anticipate funding 758 competing RPGs, with a success rate of 18% (see comparisons for previous years).

NIGMS Feedback Loop

NIMH

FY 2013 Funding Strategy for Research Grants

• Non-Competing Continuation Grants: For Research Project Grants (RPGs),Centers, and Other Research Mechanisms (excluding Research Career Development): 
• Modular Grants: Modular grant awards will be reduced -4% from their FY 2013 committed levels.
• Commitments for continuation awards in FY 2014 and beyond will remain unchanged at this time.
• Non-Modular Grants: Non-modular grant awards will be reduced -4% from their FY 2013 committed levels. Commitments for continuation awards in FY 2014 and beyond will remain unchanged at this time.

NIMH Funding

NIH

NIH Operation Plan in the Event of a Sequestration (2/21/13)

Memo from Sally Rockey, Ph.D.
Deputy Director for Extramural Research
National Institutes of Health

• Likely to reduce the final FY 2013 funding levels of non-competing continuation grants
• Fewer competing awards
• Scrutiny of unexpended balances on existing awards and requests for carryovers; scrutiny of unfilled training grant slots

NIH Operation Plan

NIH Memo March 4

NCI Memo

NIH Contracting

Diane J. Frasier
Head of the Contracting Activity, and Director of the Office of Acquisition and Logistics Management (3/4/13)

• NIH is taking every step to mitigate the effects of these cuts, but based on our initial analysis, it is possible that your contract(s) may be affected. Examples of this impact could include: not exercising an option on your contract(s); or negotiating lower prices or other terms via a bilateral modification to meet the constraints imposed by sequestration. Additionally, plans for new contract(s) may be re-scoped, delayed, or canceled depending on the nature of the work and the availability of resources.
• You will be contacted by the appropriate Contracting Officer with additional details at a later point. Please note that these budget cuts do not affect contract awards made with fiscal year 2012 resources

NIH

NIH Operates Under a Continuing Resolution(10/11/12)

• Non-competing awards at a level generally up to 90% of the previously committed level
• All legislative mandates that were in effect in FY 2012 remain in effect under the CR, including the salary limitation set at Executive Level II of the Federal Pay Scale ($179,700)

NOT-OD-13-002

NOT-OD-12-034 

NOT-OD-12-035

NIH Salary Cap

Federal Register Notices on Pay

• Potential for a pay adjustment to all Federal rates of pay.

• Suspended increases at least through 3/27/13; allowed for certain rates of pay to be adjusted after 3/27/13,(.5% increase) NIH Salary Limitation from $179,700 to $180,600 (pending)

Federal Register

NSF

Impact of FY 2013 Sequestration Order on NSF Awards (2/27/13)

• FY2013 appropriations reduced by 5 percentnew research grants will be reduced by approximately 1,000

• all continuing grant increments in FY 2013 will be awarded, as scheduled, and there will be no impact on existing NSF standard grants

NSF Memo

OMB

 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Report to the Congress on the sequestration for fiscal year (FY) 2013Deputy Director for Management (3/1/2013)

• This report provides calculations of the amounts and percentages by which various budgetary resources are required to be reduced, and a listing of the reductions required for each non-exempt budget account

 OMB March 1

OMB

Agency Responsibilities for Implementation of Potential Joint Committee Sequestration (2/27/13)

• Estimates reductions approx.. 9% nondefense and 13% defense programs
• Agencies should be actively and continuously communicating with affected stakeholders
• Determine specific actions to operate under lower level of resources.
• Identify major contracts to cancel, re-scope or delay as well as any grants to cancel, delay, or to change the payment amount.
• Identify # of employees who will be furloughed, length of expected furloughs, timing, manner
• Contracts: high-priority initiatives or where failure to do so would expose the government to significantly greater costs in the future
• Grants: delaying awarding of new obligations, reducing levels of continued funding, and renegotiating or reducing the current scope of assistance

OMB Memo

OMB

Planning for Uncertainty with Respect to Fiscal Year 2013 Budgetary Resources (OMB Deputy Director for Management, 1/14/13

• Directs federal agencies to plan for possible major budget reductions; expiration of the FY2013 Continuing Resolution through March 27th;
• Spending cuts in FY2013 alone $85 billion;

• "review grants and contracts to determine where cost savings may be achieved in a manner that is consistent with the applicable terms and conditions, remaining mindful of the manner in which individual contracts or grants advance the core mission of the agency."

OMB Memo January 2013