Definition: The award number is a unique, eleven-character number that identifies each award issued by a specific office to a specific grantee.
Additional Information:The award number can be found on the award notices issued to grantees by Department program offices. Grantees/payees should contact the program offices for award numbers. Below is an example of an award number:
A123B071234
A = Principal Office designator
123 = CFDA numeric suffix of the program
B = Alphabetic sub-program identifier
07 = Last two digits of the funding fiscal year
1234 = Unique identifier