Broad Agency Announcement for a cooperative agreement to evaluate and compare Federal formula grant programs.

The recipient of this cooperative agreement will select a sample of Federal grant programs whose uses and restrictions, eligibility requirements, application and award procedures, funding levels, and Federal management policy directives are similar to the formula grant programs administered by FTA. For each program, researchers would examine the process and performance measures used by the agencies to award and manage their grants and the methods these agencies employ to evaluate the effectiveness of the programs that they fund. On the basis of this information, researchers will make recommendations on how FTA might incorporate effective practices employed by other agencies.