Keeping Up with the KPIs
Fixer Upper
The NeverEnding Extension
Everything Everywhere All In Scope
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America's Next Top Monitoring Activity
The Price is Right
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Mission: Permittable
* FINAL JEOPARDY *
100
This tool gives leadership a snapshot of overall TBCP program progress.
What is the Executive Leadership Dashboard?
100
The FPO must conduct this before deciding whether a corrective action is needed.
What is due diligence?
100
A 4+ year No-Cost Extension is only applicable to this type of recipient.
Who are infrastructure Deployment recipients?
100
A change in Scope Revision Request allows a change or this in specific goals, objectives, or project areas approved at award.
What is a shift?
100
While the FPOs do NOT validate Physical equipment installation, they DO validate these two items.
What are Network Performance Speed and Latency?
100
Upon completion of this AND the monitoring plan, the quarterly deliverables will be generated, along with the PARA PMA for the following calendar year.
What is the Risk Assessment Questionnaire?
100
Procurement is the process by which recipients plan, select, and manage these parties to acquire goods and services using federal funds.
Who are vendors?
100
While pre-enforcement actions are approved by the program, it is considered a best practice to work in coordination with THIS department/agency and make them aware of the identified issue of noncompliance and the recommended course of corrective action.
Who is NIST?
100
The recipient must provide documents so that this person can conduct an environmental assessment.
Who is the EPO?
200
Executive Dashboard numbers populate directly from every approved one of these reports.
What are Performance (Technical) Reports?
200
Formal documentation of a potential noncompliance issue through creation of a noncompliance finding (NF) is the first step of the Corrective Action Process, that is logged here.
What is Salesforce or NGP?
200
Extension requests are evaluated based on this.
What are the recipient's individual circumstances?
200
A change in scope may also be referred to by these two terms.
What are a rescope and a descope?
200
TBCP’s program requirements for Service Validation state that throughput must be this greater than or equal to this many mbps, while latency must be less than or equal to this many milliseconds.
What are ≥ 25/3 Mbps and ≤ 100 milliseconds
200
The Post-Award Monitoring Framework takes place in these three phases over the calendar year.
What are PARA, Monitoring Plan, and Monitoring Activities?
200
The high-level procurement process begins with this phase, when recipients define needed goods or services and develop cost estimates.
What is Planning?
200
Noncompliance findings are organized into these two severity categories.
What are non-material and material findings?
200
The NEPA review timeline follows these four stages in order.
What are Award Start, Environmental Review, Environmental Memo, and SAC Satisfaction?
300
This tracks the number of new aerial or underground miles built or underground miles built or upgraded using TBCP funds.
What is the number of new fiber miles constructed or upgraded?
300
The corrective actions process follows these five key steps.
What are discover, understand, decide, respond, and resolve?
300
To receive a 4+ year NCE, the recipient must certify that:
The eligible entity has a plan for use of the grant funds;
Extenuating circumstances require an extension of time to allow the project to be completed
Or that THIS is underway.
What is Construction or Construction Project?
300
Any changes to the original scope of federal award must be documented and approved before this.
What is implementation?
300
These are the two main types of Network Service Validation.
What are Primary Validation and Ongoing Validation?
300
Once the Monitoring Plan is approved, PMA delivery follows this three-step process.
What is Plan, Execute, Report (PER)?
300
During this phase, recipients issue RFPs or RFQs and must ensure open and fair competition unless a justified exemption applies.
What is Solicitation?
300
This pre-enforcement action is typically used for missed report deadlines, monitoring material requests, or deliverable deadlines that can be quickly resolved.
What is an Immediate Action Letter (IAL)?
300
To satisfy a Duplication SAC, the recipient submits this type of Revision Request with documentation attached.
What is a "Satisfy Specific Conditions" Revision Request?
400
PPR Question 6b reports the number of these funded by TBCP funds.
What are Positions?
400
Noncompliance findings are organized based on severity and placed into these two main categories.
What are non-material and material findings?
400
During the documentation process in eRA, for both standard NCE and 4+ NCE, the description field should include THIS date.
What is the requested period of performance end date?
400
This person must sign the justification letter on Tribal letterhead for a Change in Scope request.
Who is the Authorized Organizational Representative (AOR)?
400
When calculating THIS during Service Validation; you will always use whichever is GREATER: 10 endpoints or 10% total - minimum 10 endpoints; maximum 50 endpoints (10% of total for 100-499).
What is the Required Sample Size?
400
These two categories divide monitoring activities in a PMA.
What are Foundational and Discretionary monitoring activities?
400
In the selection and award phase, recipients must perform this analysis to ensure the selected bid is reasonable.
What is cost or price analysis?
400
This pre-enforcement action is used to address programmatic concerns with project schedules, report revisions, implementation issues, and performance or benefits.
What is Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)?
400
Once the EA is complete, the FPO updates this tracker, which generates the Baseline Report due date.
What is the Expenditure Plan Tracker?
500
PPR Question 6d asks how many of this type of training event(s) were held with TBCP funds.
What are workforce development training events?
500
This corrective action type is used for minor or non-material issues as a pre-enforcement action.
What is an Immediate Action Letter or IAL?
500
This NCE document advises: why the extension is needed, issues, remaining activities, remaining unobligated funds; and will need to be on tribal letterhead, signed by the AOR.
What is the Justification Document?
500
If a recipient proposes a descope, the FPO should alert their Team Lead and this additional lead.
Who is the Rescope Team Lead?
500
During a Site Visit, while confirming Infrastructure Validation, you will observe and take this action, to ensure to document that the installed CPE equipment was deployed as proposed in the grant application.
What is a photograph?
500
This type of monitoring activity is required by OICG or specific program rules and must be included in Monitoring Plans.
What is a Foundational Monitoring Activity?
500
Materials purchased with federal funds should meet these three standards.
What are reasonable, allocable, and allowable?
500
If one finalized IAL addresses multiple noncompliance findings these must still be logged separately in NGP.
What are separate corrective actions?
500
After CATEX or FONSI is issued, this process is triggered.
What is the Revised Expenditure Plan (REP) process?
600
PPR Question 9b reports the number of these knowledge-sharing events held with TBCP funds.
What are digital literacy training events?
600
Before an IAL is uploaded to NGP, it must be approved by this person.
Who is Isabel?
600
This budget form must show the remaining funds from the approved budget.
What is the SF-424C?
600
In the rescope process, this team member manages SharePoint files and documents and conducts the initial review of the checklist and support documents.
Who is CST?
600
Widespread failures affecting more than this percentage of endpoints trigger non-compliant status and CAP/PIP procedures.
What is 20%?
600
Aged PMAs are monitoring activities that remain incomplete for this amount of time past their scheduled date.
What is one full quarter?
600
During site visits, FPOs are really evaluating whether the recipient has these three things needed to spend funds responsibly.
What are systems, controls, and judgement?
600
An Initial Notice should be logged in NGP as this type of entry, not as a corrective action type.
What is due diligence log entry within the NF?
600
Recipients have this many calendar days to complete the Baseline Report after environmental clearance is received.
What is 30 calendar days?
600
CATEGORY: Conditions Apply
QUESTION: Following completion of the Environmental Review Process, an EPO emails this memo to the FPO advising that one of these THREE determinations has been issued.
What are:
- Categorical Exclusion (CATEX)
- Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI)
- Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
700
Accurate PPR data matters because it affects future funding decisions, accountability, credibility, and this broad measure.
What is program impact?
700
This is who the FPO sends enforcement action materials to, within 30 days of confirmation of material noncompliance.
Who is the GO or Grants Office?
700
If the recipient has cleared environmental review, this revised document in .XLSX format must also be submitted.
What is the revised Baseline Report?
700
Any change in scope that results in a decrease in federal funding (descope) must be accompanied by these three documents.
What are the DBJ, SF-424 (A or C) and a Budget Narrative?
700
Infrastructure Validation confirms that TBCP grant recipients have deployed THIS in compliance with their grant-approved network design.
What is a Customer Premises Equipment?
700
If Plan and Report submissions show complete but the status does not move to Complete, contact this team.
What is the NGP Helpdesk?
700
This TBCP II requirement during Procurement, ensures the recipient is complying with domestic sourcing requirements.
What is BABA?
700
This Enforcement Action is used to address material EHP findings deemed to have immediate threat to the environment.
What is a Stop-Work Order Notice?
700
This document is uploaded on the backend under "Additions for Program" for to satisfy the Duplication SAC on the internal side.
What is the Deduplication of Efforts Document?