Is this commercial product development?  market research?

I see some value in the info you seek.  But I'd be more comfortable if this was not part of work on a specific product OR if the Visa gift cards were being sent to all of us.

Charlie Hathaway

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From: Research Administration List [xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org] on behalf of Chris Thompson [xxxxxx@MODERAS.ORG]
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 10:03 AM
To: xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] Proposal Complexity

Good morning.  I've got another question for the list and another opportunity to win a $100 Visa gift card for those who can help out.  Speaking of which Troy Boni from Lehigh University is the winner of the last gift card.  Congratulations Troy! 

On to the question. I've been involved in quite a few discussions and round tables were the subject of proposal complexity was a hot topic.  I'd like to get as many opinions on this as possible off list and I will happily summarize the results and pass them back to everyone.  What we're trying to do is come up with a standard measure of how complicated a proposal is, sounds simple eh?  The ultimate purpose of this would be to be able to quickly identify proposals that need research administration attention, to separate the wheat from the chaff so staff can focus on those that will be the hardest to get through the process.  I hazard to say they could be identified so you could request more lead time since we know that's a hot button issue.  Having said that our hope is to include this score for a PI to see when they're developing a proposal in Kuali Coeus and pop up an alert that lets them know they should get this to you as soon as possible if the score is above X.

Here's the list we've compiled so far, if you can share any more factors we may have missed we would welcome that and if you could score te ones below from 1 to 10 (10 being the greatest impact, 1 being the least,  and 0 being ones you feel we should remove) that would be GREAT!

Once we have the responses we will develop a calculation that will provide a score and share that too.

Here's our list so far;

1. Type (Grant / Contract / Etc.) - Score = (  )
   
2. # Staff - Score = (  )
3. Staff Experience with same sponsor - Score = (  )
4. Non-Federal Sponsor - Score = (  )
5. Sponsor Size - Score = (  )
6. Export Control - Score = (  )
7. Intellectual Property - Score = (  )
8. Human Subjects - Score = (  )
9. Lab Animals - Score = (  )
10. Biosafety - Score = (  )
11. Space Change - Score = (  )
12. Radioactive Safety - Score = (  )
13. Length of budget in years - Score = (  )
14. Subaward - Score = (  )
15. Dollar Amount - Score = (  )
16. Cost Share - Score = (  )
17. IDC Waiver - Score = (  )
18. Off Campus - Score = (  )
19. International - Score = (  )

Thanks in advance for your help!

-Chris

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