DUNS and 2 C.F.R. Part 200 Compliance Page

Potential Traffic Safety Program subgrantees must complete the Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) and the 2 C.F.R. Part 200 Compliance Page in eGrants when applying for grants with TRF-BTS.
DUNS assigns a unique nine-digit number recognized as the universal standard for identifying and tracking businesses worldwide. The Federal Spending Transparency Directive and the previous Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) require grantees and subgrantees to have a DUNS number. Most agencies and organizations have DUNS numbers established. Agency personnel that submit proposals through eGrants should check with their agency’s accounting staff. To obtain a DUNS number, applicants should go to the
Dun and Bradstreet Website
.
Traffic Safety subgrantees are also required to comply with the audit requirements in 2 C.F.R. Part 200 and/or the State of Texas Uniform Grant Management Standards; therefore, all potential subgrantees must check one of the following on the eGrants DUNS and 2 C.F.R. Part 200 Proposal Compliance page to indicate if their federal or state expenditures were more or less than $750,000, and follow the instructions below to carry out the appropriate action.
  • If federal or state expenditures of $750,000 or more are met during the agency’s fiscal year, the agency must submit a Single Audit Report and Management Letter (if applicable) to TxDOT’s Compliance Division, 125 East 11th Street, Austin, Texas 78701, or contact TxDOT’s Compliance Division at
    singleaudits@txdot.gov
    .
  • If federal expenditures are less than $750,000 during the agency’s fiscal year, the agency must submit a statement to TxDOT’s Compliance Division as follows: “We did not meet the $750,000 expenditure threshold, and therefore we are not required to have a single audit performed for FY ####.” A single audit of state expenditures is still required if state expenditures exceed $750,000, even if federal expenditures do not.
TRF-BTS creates a list of subgrantees who received reimbursements from TxDOT that are required to submit a single audit report and subgrantees that are not required to submit a single audit report, but must submit statements that they do not meet the expenditure threshold, and therefore, are not required to submit a single audit report. This list is compiled annually (on October 1) by TRF-BTS from information captured on the DUNS and 2 C.F.R. Part 200 Compliance Page of eGrants after the grant award process has been completed for the year. The subgrantee list is then forwarded to the TxDOT Compliance Division (CMP) so that CMP can determine which agencies have submitted their single audit report or a statement that a single audit report is not required, within nine months after the end of their fiscal year.
As per the requirements of 2 C.F.R. §200.332 on requirements for pass-through entities, the following is required in every subaward: (ii) Subrecipients unique identifier. By April of 2022, the federal government will stop using the DUNS number to uniquely identify entities registered in the System for Award Management (SAM). At that point, entities doing business with the federal government will use a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) created in SAM.gov.