Family A · Serving people and business
Grants management
Programme design, eligibility, assessment, award, payment and acquittal, with the reasoning behind every funding decision recorded as it is made. Includes grants between governments.
Grants management (MG-02) is one of the twenty-one MeshGov services, in the "Serving people and business" family. Programme design, eligibility, assessment, award, payment and acquittal, with the reasoning behind every funding decision recorded as it is made. Includes grants between governments. It replaces grants administration suite. AI agents carry the work end to end; a named officer takes every decision with legal effect on a person, a business or public money. It is core at federal level, core at state level, core at local level.
What it replaces
- Grants administration suite
What it reacts to
- Application lodged
- Round closes
- Milestone report due
- Acquittal overdue
The agents that carry it
Eligibility agent
Tests every application against the round guidelines and verifies the entity and any co-contribution against audited sources.
Assessment agent
Scores merit against the published criteria, citing the evidence for every score, and prepares the panel pack.
Probity agent
Checks every panel member against every applicant in the interests register before scoring opens.
Acquittal agent
Reconciles milestone reports to payments, issues reminders and withholds the next milestone automatically when a report is late.
Where a person decides
No decision with legal effect on a person, a business or public money is taken by an agent alone. In Grants management, these decisions are held for a named officer, with the agent's evidence and recommendation attached.
| Decision | Who decides | Why a person |
|---|---|---|
| Every award, variation and termination | Assessment panel or delegate | Commits public money |
| Resolution of a declared conflict | Panel chair | Integrity of the round |
Records it writes
Eligibility determination · Merit assessment with citations · Panel decision with dissent · Acquittal reconciliation
Before MeshGov: the baseline this service is measured against
Median assessment
9 days
working days, by hand
Conflicts checked
by form
a declaration, not the register
Acquittals overdue
41
not chased
Panel pack
3 weeks
to assemble each round
Levels of government: core at federal level, core at state level, core at local level.
Questions buyers ask about Grants management
- What does MeshGov Grants management do?
- Programme design, eligibility, assessment, award, payment and acquittal, with the reasoning behind every funding decision recorded as it is made. Includes grants between governments. It reacts to events such as application lodged, round closes and milestone report due, and writes eligibility determination, merit assessment with citations, panel decision with dissent and acquittal reconciliation as records.
- What systems does Grants management replace?
- Grants administration suite. Because the service runs on the MeshGov platform, the licence, integration and upgrade costs of those systems retire with them.
- What do the AI agents do in Grants management?
- The eligibility agent tests every application against the round guidelines and verifies the entity and any co-contribution against audited sources. The assessment agent scores merit against the published criteria, citing the evidence for every score, and prepares the panel pack. The probity agent checks every panel member against every applicant in the interests register before scoring opens. The acquittal agent reconciles milestone reports to payments, issues reminders and withholds the next milestone automatically when a report is late.
- Which decisions does a person still take?
- Agents never take a decision with legal effect on a person, a business or public money. In Grants management, a person decides every award, variation and termination (assessment panel or delegate) and resolution of a declared conflict (panel chair). The record shows who decided, why, on what evidence and under which delegation.
- Which levels of government use Grants management?
- It is core at federal level, core at state level, core at local level. MeshGov was checked against the Australian Government Architecture, the AGA Business Reference Model, the Queensland Government Enterprise Architecture and the UK Local Government Business Model, and serves government in any country.