[Plsfaculty] FW: Grants.gov...the saga continues!

[Donna-Rae Marquez]

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From: Discussion of Research Administrators' Issues
[mailto:RAMTALK at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Karen Smith
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:15 AM
To: RAMTALK at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Grants.gov...the saga continues!

 

Grants.gov has been completely unforgiving this past week.   With the NIH
March 5 deadline, we had a new lesson taught to us.    When we submit the
application, we receive a confirmation notice.   Last week, when we pressed
submit, we received an error that said timed out or nothing done.   To most
of us, this would mean that the application was not accepted by the system.
So, we would submit the application again.  In some cases, it took 12-15
times before we received a confirmation screen.   The next day, we looked
for the NIH applications in Commons to realize that the applications had
indeed been accepted by the Commons system all 12-15 times!   

 

The next day, we tried to submit another application twice.   We received
the timed out error.   We waited until the next day to see if the
application was received by Commons.  The application was not received by
the system.  

 

The advice we received from the help desk was to wait 20 minutes after the
timed out error.  If no confirmation screen appears, we were to resubmit the
application.   The error messages that we are receiving from grants.gov are
inconsistent.

 

Another Grants.gov story from last week pertains to NSF, we submitted an
application to NSF on February 25, 2009.   The application was rejected with
errors by grants.gov.  Grants.gov could not determine the origin of the
error.  I spoke to NSF, they recommended that the application be submitted
through Fastlane.   The grants.gov helpdesk explained that the application
would not move forward.   On March 4, 2009, the application that was
submitted through grants.gov entered NSF Fastlane.   This created a
duplicate submission that had to be rejected in the NSF Fastlane system.
If you intend to submit an application to the National Science Foundation,
please use the Fastlane system to submit the application.

 

Please keep the 3 day proposal policy in mind when submitting applications
to us.  The only reason we were able to submit all of the applications and
deal with the problems is because we received a bulk of the applications at
least 3 days before the deadline.  We are doing our best to work with all of
the systems, we need your help to be able to continue.    

 

Please complete the application package before sending it to us.   We will
not do preliminary review of application packages.   Please fax the PRS,
abstract, budget and budget justification for our review prior to sending
the application package.  

 

 

Karen Smith
Senior Sponsored  Projects Administrator, Preaward
Sponsored Projects Services
University of Arizona
(520)626-6127
 <http://www.sps.arizona.edu/> http://www.sps.arizona.edu



 

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