Helpful Links
Public Sector Contracts, Grants and Agreements, Intellectual Property:
Laws, Regulations and Guidance
Legislative Tracking and Public Laws http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php See also GovTrak (third party) site http://www.govtrack.us/#
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) https://www.acquisition.gov/far/
DFARs (DoD FAR Supplement)
http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/dars/index.html
General Services Administration Acquisition Manual (GSA FAR Supplement – including Schedule Contracts) https://www.acquisition.gov/gsam/gsam.html
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circulars (direction to federal agencies from the Executive Office of the President, including cost principles for contracts and grants) http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars_default
U.S. Government Portal for Grants http://www.grants.gov/
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Grant Policy Statement (large pdf file) http://www.hhs.gov/asfr/ogapa/grantinformation/hhsgps107.pdf
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of External Research Grants page http://grants.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm
For terms and conditions of NIH grants see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/nihgps_2003/NIHGPS_Part7.htm
For NIH implementation of Bayh-Dole Intellectual Property Regulations see
https://s-edison.info.nih.gov/iEdison/
Department of Defense Grant and Agreement Regulations (DodGARs) http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&rgn=div6&view=text&node=32:1.1.1.3.16.3&idno=32
DOE Grants/IP policies
Federal Labs Consortium (all federal labs including DoD, DOE, NIH, CDC, DHS) http://www.federallabs.org/home/
General Services Administration Travel Regulations Table of Contents (including rules on acceptance of reimbursement from non-federal sources) http://www.gsa.gov/portal/ext/public/site/FTR/file/FTRTOC.html/category/21865/hostUri/portal
Other Useful sites for Research
U.S. Government Central Contractor Registration (CCR) https://www.bpn.gov/ccr/ which is being replaced by the System for Award Management (SAM) as of July 2012 http://sam.gov
Federal Business Opportunities (official site for posting U.S. Government purchases and related notices) https://www.fbo.gov/
Pubklaw (subscription) created by a retired procurement lawyer http://www.pubklaw.com/http://www.gsa.gov/portal/ext/public/site/FTR/file/FTRTOC.html/category/21865/hostUri/portal
“Where in Federal Contracting” (this site is used by agency counsel, law firm and in-house procurement lawyers as well as acquisition professionals – the discussions can sometimes be helpful for questions where there is no clear answer) http://www.wifcon.com/