Be Prepared for Grants.gov's Temporary Shutdown

The date is fast approaching and one more reminder can’t hurt. The grants community should be aware — if it is not already — that Grants.gov will go offline for a full week later this month as it makes a key technological shift.

Grants.gov is slated to migrate to the cloud, an overall process it began last year, in what officials expect to be “completely seamless to applicants." The changes are intended to allow for fewer maintenance outages; better availability, performance, scalability and agility; improved security; a modern infrastructure better able to support future enhancements; and an overall improved user experience.

To ensure a smooth transition, the system will go offline Sept. 23 at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time (ET) and is slated to come back online on Sept. 29 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Please be aware of these dates and plan your award submissions accordingly.

All applications that were started before the migration will be available once Grants.gov is back online, and progress made on applications started before the migration will be saved. Progress on unsubmitted applications that are in process at the start of the migration will be saved. The Grants.gov URL will remain the same after the migration. However, IP addresses will change. All registered system-to-system (S2S) users have been notified of the technical updates that may be required to maintain S2S connectivity with Grants.gov. For further information, contact support@Grants.gov.

Grants.gov officials also note that following the migration, notification emails from Grants.gov will now come from: do_not_reply@grants.gov. Officials are encouraging users to update any email rules they have previously created and to check their spam folder if they don’t receive any Grants.gov notifications.

Starting Oct. 15, Grants.gov will conduct routine system maintenance on the third weekend of every month. For updates to the schedule regarding the outage, as well as information on other upcoming scheduled outages, visit the System Enhancements & Server Maintenance Outages Calendar.

Join us for our following Thompson Grants events:
Federal Grants Forum For Institutions of Higher Education | Sept. 28-29, 2022 | Virtual Event
Advanced Federal Grants Forum | Oct. 25-27, 2022 | Phoenix, Ariz.