My advice would be, if there’s time, for the faculty member/PI to call the program officer for each announcement and speak with them/ask the question.  We’ve had this situation before and the program officers have requested that our faculty send a one-page summary of the project to both.  Between them, they decided which funding opportunity best suited the proposed research and the faculty member submitted to that announcement.  Even though the faculty thought that their proposed research fit the one announcement, it turned out that it did not.  In the long run, this saved PI time and OSP time.  I would imagine that program officers w/could also verify if it is appropriate for the faculty to submit their proposal to both announcements, maybe with some tweaks.  I always encourage the faculty/PI to call as they are best suited to answer any questions a program officer may have.  It’s always good to have email verification of conversations/recommendations from program officers.  Therefore, if they do recommend submitting to both and afterwards the action is questioned, the PI does have those emails to fall back on.

Good Luck,

 

A faculty member at my university wants to do some simultaneous submissions of a grant proposal, tailored to the RFP of course, to federal funding agencies.  How do I go about finding out if this acceptable to the funding agency?  Here is the situation…. IES has one grant  with an education technology “topic”  and the agency has just released a new one for reading comprehension.  Her project could possibly work within either funding opportunity.  Advice please.

 

 

 

 

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