FDP Expanded Clearinghouse
Find guidance for project teams on using the FDP Expanded Clearinghouse for accessing organizational profiles to verify information for subrecipients or pass-through entities.
The University of Michigan participates in the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) Expanded Clearinghouse. The purpose of this effort is to reduce the administrative burden associated with verifying standard information for subawards between institutions when acting as either a subrecipient or a pass-through entity (PTE).
How the FDP Expanded Clearinghouse works
Participating organizations, such as U-M, have agreed to maintain an Entity Profile with information about their organization and to review each other’s published profiles in the clearinghouse instead of sending and receiving individual subrecipient commitment forms with that information.
Organizations may need to complete forms, or request forms be completed, that gather information that is not included in the FDP Clearinghouse. This could include project-specific information, such as IRB approvals or statements of work. Per the clearinghouse guidelines, minor exchanges of data that are transaction or subaward specific may occur between the pass-through entity and the subrecipient, provided that such exchanges do not require completion of data already appearing on the entity’s published profile.
In addition, project teams still need to obtain a generic letter of commitmen, as applicable, even when a subrecipient is registered in the FDP Expanded Clearinghouse.
Guidance for project teams
- When U-M is the PTE: Subrecipients that are also participating FDP institutions only need to complete Part I (project-specific information) on the U-M Subrecipient Commitment Form. They do not need to complete Part II (entity-specific information available in the FDP Expanded Clearinghouse). If they do not participate in the FDP Expanded Clearinghouse, they must complete the entire Subrecipient Commitment Form. Visit this resource to look up the profile information for the subrecipient, if needed.
- When U-M is the subrecipient: If the PTE is a participating FDP institution, U-M only needs to complete project-specific information on their subrecipient commitment form and can point the other institution to U-M’s profile information in the FDP Expanded Clearinghouse for entity-specific information.