20A - LABOR TECHNICAL SIKLLS TRAINNING GRANT

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10. Executive Order 12928: In compliance with Executive order 12928, the Grantee is strongly encouraged to provide subcontracting/ subgranting opportunities to Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other Minority Institutions such as Hispanic Serving Institutions and Tribal Colleges and Universities; and to Small Businesses Owned and Controlled by Socially and Economically Disadvahtaged Individuals, 11. Procurement: Except as specifically provided, DOL/ETA acceptance of a proposal and an award of federal funds to sponsor any program(s) does not provide a waiver of any grant requirements and /or procedures. For example, the OMB circulars require an entity's procurement procedures must require that all procurement transactions shall be conducted, as practical, to provide open and free competition. If a proposal identifies a specific entity:to provide the services, the DOL /ETA's award does not provide the justification or; basis to sole- source the procurement, i.e., avoid competition. 12. Veteran's Priority Provisions: The Jobs for Veterans Act (Public Law 107 -288) requires grantees to provide priority of service to veterans and spouses of certain veterans for the receipt.of employment, training, and placement services in any job training program directly funded, in whole or in part, by DOL. The regulations implementing this priority of service can be found at 20 CF,R part.1010. In circumstances where a grant recipient must-choose, between two qualified candidates for a service, one of whom is'a veteran or eligible spouse, the veterans priority of service provisions require that the grant recipient give the veteran or eligible spouse. priority of service by first providing him or her that service. To.obtain priority of service, a veteran or spouse must meet the program's eligibility requirements. Grantees must comply with DOL guidance on veterans' priority. ETA's Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 10 -09 (issued November 10, 2009) provides guidance on implementing priority of service for veterans and eligible spouses in all qualified job training programs funded in whole or in part by DOL.- TEGL No. 10 -09 is available at http://wdr.dol'eta.gov/directives/corr doc.cfm ?DOCN =2816. 13. Audits: The awardee agrees to comply with the required financial and compliance audits in accordance with the Single Audit Act. of 1984. 14: Salary and Bonus Limitations: Under Public Law 109 -234 and Public Law 111 -8, Section 111, none of the funds appropriated in Public Law 111 -5 or prior Acts-under the heading "Employment and Training" that are available for expenditure on or after June 15, 2006, shall be used by a recipient or sub - recipient of such funds to pay the salary and bonuses of an individual, either as.direct costs or indirect costs, at a rate in excess of Executive Level II. These limitations also apply to grants funded under this SGA. The salary and bonus limitation does not apply to vendors providing goods and services -as defined in OMB Circular A -133. See Training and Employment Guidance Letter number 5 -06 for further clarification: hftp://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/corr 'doc.cfm ?DOCN =2262. 15. Intellectual Property.Rights. The Federal.G.overnment reserves a paid -up, nonexclusive and irrevocable license to *reproduce, publish or otherwise use, and to authorize others to use for federal purposes: i) the copyright in all products developed under the grant, including a subgrant or contract under the grant or subgrant; and ii) any rights of copyright to which the grantee, subgrantee or a contractor purchases ownership under an award (including but not limited to curricula, aipiJ�g odes, technical assistance products, and any