Funding Opportunities with DHHS: No Longer a Mystery

The Division of Budget and Analysis is working on a new website that will be useful to grant coordinators and to agencies and nonprofits looking for grant opportunities.

Many divisions and offices field calls from vendors and other customers of
DHHS who wish to locate funding opportunities. The process, called a Request for Application (RFA) may be used when the funding source--an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services--is acting as a flow-through for grant funding, and there are no true deliverables. Currently, the notices for these opportunities are issued by the various divisions and offices in the department with little consistency.

Unlike the process for purchasing with Requests For Proposals (RFPs) where potential contractors submit sealed technical proposals and bids, RFA notices are not consolidated centrally for those who wish to do business with the State. Posting these notices centrally on a website will afford our customers one stop shopping.

Divisions and offices with RFAs to post are requested to submit them to Budget and Analysis for posting to the website. Jim Slate, acting director of Budget and Analysis, will send a letter to division directors about these submissions early in December. Contact Andy Watry at 919-733-6396 for more information.

Look for the site to be up and running early in 2006. Eventually this site will ease the process of answering public inquiries about funding opportunities in the department. That can lower the administrative burden for maintaining mailing lists of those who wish to be notified of these opportunities. Most of all, service to the public is improved.

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Last Modified: December 2, 2005