grants.gov electronic proposal submission to the federal government research administration round...
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Grants.govElectronic Proposal Submission to the
Federal Government
Research Administration Round Table
September 28, 2005
Dan Dwyer, Tammy Custer
Agenda
• How did we get here? – Dan Dwyer– Federal eRA & Grants.gov history
• Current situation – Tammy Custer– Demo of PureEdge forms– PureEdge usage tips
• Where do we go? – group discussion– Cornell support & development plans
Brief Federal eRA History
Regulation:• Government
Performance Results Act (1993)
• Government Paperwork Elimination Act (1998)
• PL 106-107 (1999)• President’s
Management Agenda (2001)
OMB announces E-Government Strategy (2002)
Systems:• NSF FastLane
initiated (1994)• Federal Commons
concept proposed (1998)
• NSF FastLane submission required (2000)
• Many single agency systems (2001-2005)
Grants.gov: What is it?
• Single electronic source for finding federal grant opportunities (find) and submitting proposals (apply)
• Covers 900 grant programs from 26 grant-making agencies ($350 billion annual awards)
• Based on standard forms (SF424 R&R)• Forms based interface using PureEdge• Development of system-to-system interface
Grants.gov: History
• 2002: Established by OMB to develop “find” and “apply” functions across all federal grant making agencies
• Oct 2003: First electronic proposals accepted • Sept 2005: Over 15,000 applications received
to date • FY06: 75% of Find Opportunities on Apply
Grants.gov: NIH Announcement
1. transition from the PHS398 application to the SF424 Research and Related (R&R) application, and
2. simultaneously transition to electronic submission via Grants.gov by the end of 2007
Notice Number: NOT-OD-05-067, August 19, 2005 http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-067.html
Grants.gov: NIH Schedule
• December 1, 2005 —Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer Programs (STTR) (R41, R42, R43, R44)
• December 15, 2005 —Support for Conferences & Scientific Meetings (R13 & U13)
• January 25, 2006 —Academic Research Enhancement Awards (AREA) (R15)
• June 1, 2006 —Small Grant Programs (R03) & Exploratory/Development Research Grant Awards (R21)
• October 1, 2006 —Research Project Grant Program (R01)
Grants.gov: Other Agencies
• NSF: Working towards accepting awards. No indication (yet) that FastLane will go away anytime soon
• USDA: Slow rollout. Using for some programs. Cornell is pilot project partner
• Smaller agency are generally moving more rapidly to grants.gov
PureEdge Usage Tips
• Do Not Register! Cornell is registered as institution. Users do not need to get DUNS number or CCR registration
• No native Macintosh support • PDF manipulation skills required • Submit completed PureEdge package along
with Form 10 to SPS for submission• Plan extra time for submission complications
2004 Statistics on NIH Proposals
• Proposals submitted: 344 VETERINARY MED 123 Top Departments: ARTS & SCIENCES 75 Biomedical Sciences 39 CALS 64 Molecular Bio 44 HUMAN ECOLOGY 43 Microbio & Immuno 29 ENGINEERING 28 Nutritional Sci 26 VP/RESEARCH 6 Molecular Medicine 24 GENEVA 2 Chemistry 23 CIS 2 Neuro & Beh 23 ILR 1
• Oct 1 deadline submissions: 27
Discussion points
• Training and awareness• Early submissions • System-to-system (Kuali?)• Advisory group
Grants.gov Resources
• Applicant Training Demonstration -Complete Application Package
• http://www.grants.gov/CompleteApplication#demo• Applicant System-to-System Implementation Resources• http://www.grants.gov/DoingBusinessApplicant• XML Find Database Extract
http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/• Outreach Communication Resources
http://www.grants.gov/Communications• Customer Feedback Findings Reports
http://www.grants.gov/MarketResearch