To respond to Marcia Zuzolo, Indiana University....

The Texas A&M University System has similar problems to those you describe.
 Faculty can "officially" submit proposals through 3 different offices at
the College Station Campus, as well as there being 6 other campuses around
the States.

NSF is the easiest to deal with....we called Jean Feldman's office for
clarification.  They allow the specified # of proposals PER INSTITUTION
CODE.  So, if each campus has their own "institution code", each campus can
submit the full # of proposals. In our case, not only does each individual
campus have their own institution code, but so do each of the 3 offices at
the College Station Campus.
 Example: The recent OSTI Academic Research Infrastructure program
(93-172) had a limit of 2 proposals per institution.  Each institution code
was eligible to submit 2 proposals.  So the College Station Campus COULD
have submitted 6 proposals if they wanted to (2 per code) AND each of the
other 6 campuses could also sumbit 2 proposals.  The TAMU System could have
submitted a total of 18 proposals if we'd been that energetic.

For the DOE Instrumentation (Dec '93), DOE-Idaho defined this as being 4
proposals per campus location, and even gave examples.  The Univ of
California was one of their examples....indicating that UC-Irvine,
UC-Berkeley, UC-Fullerton, etc. could EACH submit 4 proposals.  We were
told that the College Station Campus (all 3 offices) could only submit 4
proposals, and each of the other 6 campuses could each submit 4 proposals.
I don't know how/if a different DOE operations office would define it
differently or a different RFP!

It would be nice if there was some consistency even within agencies, but
that would be "logical" and I don't believe we're aloowed to use the "L"
word.

We haven't had experiences with other agencies....yet!  Please say a prayer
for me, Marcia and others like us.  :)

 Jean.

Jean N. Humphries
Director, TEES Research Services
Texas Engineering Experiment Station

The Texas A&M University System
308 Wisenbaker Engineering Research Center
College Station, TX 77843-3000

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