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The bill increases transparency, standardization, and oversight of federal subawards—helping taxpayers, recipients, and Congress track federal grant flows—while imposing new reporting burdens, implementation costs, and potential privacy risks for awardees and agencies.
Taxpayers will have more accurate, searchable, and accessible data on federal subawards, improving transparency about how federal grant dollars flow to recipients.
State, local, and nonprofit awardees (including small businesses) will benefit from standardized reporting formats and reduced duplicative data requests, simplifying compliance across agencies.
Congress (and oversight bodies) will receive regular implementation reports and independent oversight information from the GSA IG and Administrator, strengthening accountability and enabling more informed legislative oversight.
State, local, and nonprofit awardees (including small businesses) will face new reporting requirements for first- and second-tier subawards, increasing administrative workload and compliance costs for recipients.
Federal agencies and taxpayers will incur implementation and administrative costs to expand data collection, standardize systems, and enforce compliance, requiring upgrades and ongoing enforcement resources.
Greater public availability of detailed subaward data could expose proprietary or sensitive information about awardees, raising privacy and competitive concerns for some recipients.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Introduced January 16, 2025 by Nicholas A. Langworthy · Last progress January 16, 2025
Requires the GSA and agencies to modernize and expand public reporting on federal subawards by reviewing the current system, issuing a corrective plan, standardizing first-tier subaward reporting, and collecting two-tier subaward data. It sets deadlines for an Inspector General review, agency plans and implementation, and annual progress reports to Congress. A GSA Inspector General review must be delivered within 180 days; the GSA Administrator (with OMB and the Secretary) must submit a plan within one year and update it annually; agencies must begin collecting two-tier subaward data after the Administrator’s plan and implement agency plans within two years of enactment. The Administrator must issue reporting rules and provide yearly implementation reports until requirements are met.
Mandates GSA-led review, agency plans, standardized first-tier subaward reporting and two-tier data collection, with rules, enforcement, and annual progress reports to Congress.