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Grant Management System (GMS)

One system for the entire grant lifecycle

MTW’s Grant Management System (GMS) provides complete support of the grant management process by integrating data through every workflow phase.

 

The GMS suite gives grant administrators the tools to rapidly design, deploy, and manage any grant program, whether the application is formula, competitive, or discretionary.

The MTW GMS is a comprehensive, integrated, web-based system with a set of tools that manage the end-to-end grant management process.

Any grant type

Formula, competitive, and discretionary grant programs.

Web-based and integrated

One system covering the full process, accessed through a web browser.

Proven at scale

Processing more than 26,000 grant applications across eight states.

Workflow Phases

Every phase of the grant process

GMS integrates data through all workflow phases, so nothing is managed outside the system.

The Core Tools of GMS

Six tools, one connected process

Each tool manages a distinct part of the grant process, sharing one set of data across the system.

Grant Design Tools

Grant Administrators design the forms that are published as online grant applications. They can reuse and modify existing applications or build a complete application from start to finish, using design features that define how data is collected and how individual pages function. The design process is fast and efficient, and grants can be brought online quickly with minimal assistance from technical staff.

Allocation Management Tool

Documents and controls applicant grant award amounts, including proper apportioning for grant programs that use a formula-driven allocation process. This data controls the budgeting and payment processes. Funds can be monitored and transferred between allocations, programs, or consortium applicants, and across fiscal years when carryover provisions exist within a grant program.

Online Application and Budget Submission

Grantees sign in securely from any web browser, save work in progress, and return later to complete and submit. The GMS guides them through the application, pre-populating fields where possible and displaying only the sections that require grantee completion, with document upload, spell check, and online help available throughout. The result is less data entry, fewer errors, and higher quality applications, allowing reviewers to focus on programmatic content instead of math errors or completeness checks.

Workflow Administration Tool

Routes applications through submission, approval, and optional scoring, and returns applications to the grantee for changes or corrections when required. No routes or route stops are predefined: each application can be set up with as few or as many parallel or serial steps as needed. Grantees receive email notifications about the status of their application throughout the review process.

MTW Security System

A web-based tool for entering and maintaining system user data and controlling security access to specific functions and components within GMS, for a single user or a group of users. It integrates with Workflow Administration to provide flexibility in assigning reviewers to their tasks.

Payments Administration Tool

Grant Administrators and fiscal or business managers set up and monitor scheduled payments, reimbursements, or both, and manage the interface between the GMS and a state or agency disbursement system. Agency staff can access system reports with common reporting software or use the GMS Data Warehouse to build ad hoc reports on grant application or payments data.

Architecture

A strong, adaptable architecture

The GMS manages some of the most complex grant management processes in state government. Originally designed for state education agencies, its flexible, scalable, service-oriented architecture is suited to any federal, state, or local grant.

Industry-standard technologies, including XML and Web Services, distribute system functionality across the data, application, and web tiers. This allows rapid, precise integration with other agency systems, such as single sign-on portals and state disbursement systems.

Any grant type

Formula, competitive, and discretionary grant programs.

Web-based and integrated

One system covering the full process, accessed through a web browser.

Proven at scale

Processing more than 26,000 grant applications across eight states.

GMS Fast Fact

GMS 6.5 by the numbers

What our customers are currently managing with MTW’s GMS 6.5.

26000+

Grant Applications Processsed

50+

Unique grant programs managed

8

States using GMS

$4B+

In grant awards

Adoption

The COMPAS timeline

From first release to implementations across the country.

2004

Illinois State Board of Education.

Nebraska Department of Education.

New Jersey Department of Education.

2005

Louisiana Department of Education.

2006

Montana Office of Public Instruction.

2008

Wyoming Department of Education.

2011

Oklahoma State Department of Education.

2013

Montana Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education.

Washington D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education.

2014

South Dakota Department of Education.

2018

Vermont Agency of Education.

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