We came up against this problem a cycle or two ago. All that is to be in the federal identifier field is the 2-letter (IC) code and the 6-digit core grant number (they don't need the R01 in the front or the year code at the end).
 
Here is the "tip" I learned in this grant round....previously went doing a resubmission, the grant is changed to a changed/corrected application and the Federal Identifier is listed as the previous Grants.gov number. That, however, has changed and doing it this way caused an error in the Commons. For those resubmitting a changed/corrected application, mark it as such but leave the Federal Identifier as the grant number in the Commons, e.g., MH123456.
 
Good luck to all of you that are submitting today!
 
Sherie
 

Sherie Donahue, MS
Executive Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Research Affairs
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, CA 92350
909/558-8544
909/558-0244 (fax)

 

From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of Vicki Krell
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:32 AM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] FW: [RESADM-L] Proposal rejection on NIH Commons

Speaking of rejections on the Commons, after submitting an R01 3 times on Tuesday and getting the same error message (federal identifier format) each time even after I tried formatting the current NIH number differently (with spaces, without spaces, without dashes, with dashes, with the “5 R01” in front of the MH and number, and then without it) each time, I called the help desk this morning. After gently explaining to the woman who was “helping me” that I should not be selecting “new” for a competing continuation for #8 on the SF 424, and explaining to her that a new grant is not a R01 while a competing continuation is a R02 (sigh), and explaining to her the NIH numbering system, she finally put me on hold, presumably spoke with someone there who did know the system, and came back to tell me that the lack of a zero after the “MH” (IC) and before the first number was causing the problem. I had typed in MH68…. Instead of MH068….

 

So my advice to all is to make sure that you include each and every zero at the beginning or end of the grant number just to be safe. J

 

Enjoy.

 

Vicki

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of Terri Hall
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 10:45 AM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] FW: [RESADM-L] Proposal rejection on NIH Commons

 

Sometimes the Reject link is there and sometimes not. When I checked the

application I submitted this morning, it wasn't there....but now it is.

 

I can tell you that it was NOT there on the last couple I've re-submitted.

The Commons labeled them "ESubmission Errors" and they never went beyond the

number beginning with GRANT. Once accepted w/o errors, the app gets a number

beginning with AN and shows as pending ...and then once the submission is

marked complete it receives the NIH numbers we all know and love such as

1R01EY1647.

 

Hope that helps,

Terri

 

Terri Hall

Director

Electronic Research Administration (eRA)

University of Notre Dame

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of

Bloomberg, Robert

Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 1:06 PM

To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org

Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] Proposal rejection on NIH Commons

 

Charlie,

 

I can't answer your questions, but I agree--I've never seen it faster.

 

Bob

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org]On Behalf

Of Charlie Hathaway

Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 12:54 PM

To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org

Subject: [RESADM-L] Proposal rejection on NIH Commons

 

 

NIH Commons is working at superluminal speed today.  But it seems that

formal rejection of error-free applications prior to resubmission of a

changed/corrected to deal with warnings or system errors is no longer

necessary.  An old proposal just disappeared when the new one came in.  Do

we still need to reject?

 

Charlie

 

 

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