Updating Grant and Contract Databases Arnie Aronoff 19 Jul 1994 11:52 EST

I am interested in learning how often institutions with proposal and award
databases automatically remove from their systems the following types of
records:

Pending proposals in which the proposed project begin dates have passed but
notification of declination/rejection/withdrawal has not reached the grant
and contract office

Do offices which automatically purge such records from their databases do
so at fixed intervals--one year after the proposed project begin date?  two
years after the proposed project begin date?