Policy Requirements
Grant Management policy requirements are as follows:
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Publish on GrantConnect.
Grant opportunity guidelines and grant awards must be made publicly available on GrantConnect, except where there is a specific policy reason to not publicise the grant opportunity guidelines, or grants are provided on a one-off or ad hoc basis.
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Reuse existing designs, patterns, and investments.
Consideration must be given to minimising risk, improving consistency, accelerating delivery, and lowering total cost of Grants Management. This includes leveraging existing standards and designs prior to considering alternative new developments.
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Build for reuse.
Where reuse is not possible, provide evidence of which systems across government have been investigated (specifically the usage, users, scale, and security classification of the system), demonstrate how any new investment may be extensible and operationalised for reuse, and highlight potential benefits to agencies seeking similar capabilities.
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Engage the Department of Finance.
When developing a Grant Management platform, Non-corporate Commonwealth Entities (NCEs) should contact the Department of Finance in the first instance.