Grants and subgrants to for-profit organizations--HHS. Final rules

This announces HHS's final decision to make for-profit organizations eligible for grants in all programs in which grants to those organizations are consistent with legislative intent and program purposes. For all such programs which we have identified and which still have regulatory bars to grants to for-profit organizations, this removes the bars. This also (1) makes HHS's Department-wide grants administration regulations, 45 CFR Part 74, apply to grants and subgrants to for-profit organizations and (2) adds to those regulations additional provisions for grants and subgrants to for-profit organizations. These actions reflect a reversal of the long standing HHS policy of not making grants to for-profit organizations even in programs where they are not barred by law. The new policy is intended to increase competition. This is likely to help the affected HHS programs achieve their objectives better, because they will be able to select from among a greater number of proposed projects.