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- As you are aware there has been an escalation of electronic proposal submission initiatives among both the federal and private sponsors in the last few years. Foremost among these is the federal initiative called Grants.gov. Grants.gov was conceptually developed to allow for a simple one-stop-shop proposal submission portal for multiple federal agencies. While this remains the ultimate goal, Grants.gov is not without its faults and has forced research institutions to rethink their internal submission policies. For example, for the latest June applications NIH proposals submitted via Grants.gov took an average of 1.7 application attempts per successful submission. While this is a significant improvement over the previous March submissions the system has some fundamental issues and has yet to experience a major deadline.
The biggest concern is that submitting institutions are not being notified of problems with specific proposals until a few days after submission. This is potentially catastrophic for proposals submitted the day before or the day of the deadline for if problems arise there is no time to correct and resubmit. For your protection and assurance we are strongly encouraging all investigators to submit early (as much as 4 business days in advance of the deadline) to allow for sufficient time in the event the proposal must be resubmitted.Thank you for your consideration of this request and we look forward to assisting you with your proposal submissions.
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NIH announces change in business pratices replacing principal investigator signature on grant applications, progress reports, and prior approval requests with an institutional compliance requirement. (see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-06-054.html) To comply Virginia Tech has created a signature page for all investiagators to certify the following:
- that the information submitted within the application is true, complete and accurate to the best of the PI's knowledge;
- that any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements or claims may subject the PI to criminal, civil, or administrative penalties; and
- that the PI agrees to accept responsibility for the scientific conduct of the project and to provide the required progress reports if a grant is awarded as a result of the application.
OSP new NIH Assurance Form is located at: www.osp.vt.edu/forms.html
NIH
Announces Initial Plans
to Transition to the
SF424(R&R) Application
and Electronic Submission
through Grants.gov (NOT-OD-05-067)
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The
federal government
has initiated grants.gov
with the goal of consolidating
and standardizing
electronic proposal
submissions and funding
requests. Several
agencies are particpating
in this initial effort
including NIH and
USDA. In fact, USDA
has declared that
all FY 05 proposals
(due on or after Oct
1st 2004) will need
to be sumbmitted via
grants.gov. Virginia
Tech is registered
with grants.gov and
anticipates more electronic
submissions through
this system. Please
work with your assigned
OSP pre-award administrator
if you are to submit
via grants.gov. Check
back frequently as
we become more familair
with the new system
and provide updates
as to how it is going
to work.
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The
Office of Sponsored
Programs is developing
an automated budget
template.
The goal of the template
to provide a budgeting
tool for the creation
of draft budgets that
will correctly account
for the esclations
of salaries, tuition,
and supplies. In addtion,
automatically calculate
and adjust indirect
charges based upon
the sponsor. The template
is currently in excel
format but we are
investigating the
development of a web-based
template that can
be used to upload
approved budgets into
electronic medians
such as NSF's Fastlane
and the newly initiated
grants.gov.
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