Overview
- Funding agency
- Employment and Training Administration
- Source
- Grants.gov
- Opportunity #
- ETA-UI-2026-01
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Notice type
- Cooperative Agreement
- Actionability
- Open for response
- Lifecycle
- Open
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Source: Stored live-derived Government dataEmployment and Training Administration
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Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
4 warning(s) require review.
Objective score, derived by OIP
Publication decision: Publish with warning
UI Integrity Center of Excellence Operations -- a Cooperative Agreement (Cooperative Agreement) issued by Employment and Training Administration.
Objective Government score 73 for grants-gov-363864, computed from source evidence and Government scoring configuration.
novelty (insufficient_evidence): novelty could not be scored: no current Government source provides a reliable per-record signal for whether an opportunity is genuinely novel versus long-standing.
12 evidence record(s) support this pipeline result.
Next action: Review the official Grants.gov opportunity and follow the listed application package instructions.
95/100 · Ok
evidence_quality reflects a federal-source baseline plus completeness of deadline, funding value, eligibility, and official-source fields on this specific record.
90/100 · Ok
confidence reflects OIP's confidence in its own interpretation of this record's lifecycle and funding-value status, not confidence that any applicant will qualify.
98/100 · Ok
potential_value reflects the disclosed award ceiling or floor for this specific opportunity.
78/100 · Ok
urgency reflects the number of days remaining until the disclosed application deadline.
70/100 · Ok
difficulty reflects this opportunity's cooperative-agreement funding instrument, which typically involves substantial federal involvement and negotiation.
55/100 · Ok
time_required reflects the coordination and negotiation overhead typical of a cooperative-agreement funding instrument.
55/100 · Ok
capital_required reflects that cooperative agreements often require applicant cost-sharing as a matter of federal funding-mechanism convention; confirm the exact requirement in the official notice.
40/100 · Ok
risk reflects the number of material evidence gaps on this record (undisclosed value, missing deadline, unlisted eligibility, or a stale source date), not ordinary competitive uncertainty.
UI Integrity Center of Excellence Operations
$.detail.opportunityTitle · Field Mapping · 98/100 confidence
363864 / ETA-UI-2026-01
$.detail.id · Field Mapping · 99/100 confidence
Employment and Training Administration
$.detail.synopsis.agencyName · Field Mapping · 97/100 confidence
Cooperative Agreement
$.detail.synopsis.fundingInstruments · Field Mapping · 96/100 confidence
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) intends to award a cooperative agreement to the National Association of State Workforce Agencies' Center for Employment Security Education and Research (NASWA/CESER) for continued operations of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Integrity Center of Excellence (Integrity Center). The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (Public Law 119-75) provides Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding for federal agencies and provides "... $9,000,000 for continued support of the Unemployment Insurance Integrity Center of Excellence... ." as part of the Department of Labor's appropriation for State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Operations. The UI Integrity Center has been operated by the NASWA/CESER since FY 2017. NASWA/CESER is a 501(c)(3) entity incorporated in August 1994 as an education and research arm of the NASWA, which is a national organization of state administrators of the publicly-funded state workforce system and is a leading provider of information technology, education, and research support focused exclusively on UI and workforce development initiatives and activities. The primary mission of the UI Integrity Center is to provide training and technical assistance to states to improve UI program integrity; develop and disseminate UI program integrity resources and promote innovative new tools and products that are transferable and scalable for all states to prevent UI improper payments and enhance fraud prevention solutions; and enable rapid alerts to states on new improper payment practices and fraud schemes as they are identified.
$.detail.synopsis.synopsisDesc · Field Mapping · 94/100 confidence
2026-09-15T04:00:00.000Z
$.detail.synopsis.postingDate · Field Mapping · 96/100 confidence
2026-09-25T00:00:00.000Z
$.searchHit.closeDate · Field Mapping · 92/100 confidence
Official source materials control eligibility, deadlines, amendments, attachments, and funding terms.
Open official sourceNo numeric value · Insufficient Evidence
novelty could not be scored: no current Government source provides a reliable per-record signal for whether an opportunity is genuinely novel versus long-standing.
Applicant types: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
$.detail.synopsis.applicantTypes · Field Mapping · 94/100 confidence
9000000.00
$.detail.synopsis.awardCeiling · Field Mapping · 92/100 confidence
2026-09-15T12:24:37.000Z
$.detail.synopsis.lastUpdatedDate · Field Mapping · 88/100 confidence
Notice of Intent to Award Sole Source.pdf
$.detail.synopsisAttachmentFolders[0].synopsisAttachments[0] · Field Mapping · 90/100 confidence
Review official application document: Notice of Intent to Award Sole Source.pdf.
$.detail.synopsisAttachmentFolders[0].synopsisAttachments[0] · Field Mapping · 78/100 confidence