Agency Certificates

Agencies are required to obtain and install a digital certificate on their application server.

Obtain / Renew a Certificate

To renew or obtain a new certificate for the Grants.gov Production and Training environments:

• Certificates must use 1024 or 2048 bit RSA.
• Grants.gov recommends certificates signed by a recognized Certificate Authority. These certificates can be obtained from the following: Comodo, DigiCert, Entrust, GoDaddy, Incommon, Verisign, and Thawte.
• If the agency prefers to use self-signed certificates, it must provide Grants.gov a copy of the public certificate in Base64/ PEM format.

Request Certification Installation at Grants.gov

Provide the Grants.gov PMO with the following information using the Certificate Request Form.

• Certificate Serial Number
• Agency Enrollment Code (if not known, contact your Grants.gov Program Advisor or your System Administrator)
• Email (Certificate contact’s email)
• Expiration Date
• Environment (Production or Training (AT07))
• Self-Signed Cert? (Yes or No)
• Certificate (If Self-Signed Cert = “Yes”)
• Requestor’s Last Name
• Requestor’s First Name
• Requestor’s Email
• Requestor’s Phone Number

Submit this information by clicking the “Email Request” button in the form that will send the request to Grants.gov at support@grants.gov. Grants.gov will notify you via email once it has been installed.

Authorize the Certificate

Logon to Grants.gov as a grantor and assign roles to the certificate through the Manage Agency Users menu item.