It's happened with an Engineering proposal and a Computer Science proposal.

The offices are simply looking for the signed cover sheet (and supporting
materials, if appropriate) that is mailed in after we do the electronic
submission.   I would guess they are receiving the copy of the proposals
separately from the cover sheets and they aren't getting matched up
properly.   Or maybe they are receiving the proposals in advance of the
cover sheets, and are hesitant to do anything until the signature is
"in-hand."

If some of the program announcements are now including instructions to send
the signed cover sheets in separately as one list participant mentioned),
it's going to be awfully easy to miss that.  PI's and SRO's are generally
just referring to the program guidelines for content instructions.  If
you're doing a FastLane submission, you don't expect to have to look at the
individual program guidelines for submission instructions, too.

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Nancy Kay Peterson
Director of Grants & Sponsored Projects
Somsen Hall Room 202-C
Winona State University
Winona, MN  55987

Phone:  507.457.5519
Fax:       507.457.2415
xxxxxx@winona.msus.edu
http://www.winona.msus.edu/grants/

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Hi All,
I'd like to try and work this out.  Nancy, can you send me more detail on
the kind of "signed materials" that the NSF Divisio is asking for?

Thanks
Florence Rabanal
National Science Foundation
Directorate for Mathematical and PHysical Sciences
FastLane Project Coordinator

-----Original Message-----
From: Nancy Peterson [mailto:xxxxxx@WINONA.MSUS.EDU]
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 11:32 AM
To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
Subject: FastLane question

This is the second time this has come up.  We follow the FastLane
instructions and send in the signed materials to FastLane,, then we get a
call from the NSF Division demanding copies of the signed materials before
they will consider reviewing our application.  Apparently FastLane isn't
processing the signed stuff fast enough to satisfy the Divisions.

Is this happening to anyone else?  Should we be sending copies of the
signed materials to the program office, too, just in case?

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Nancy Kay Peterson
Director of Grants & Sponsored Projects
Somsen Hall Room 202-C
Winona State University
Winona, MN  55987

Phone:  507.457.5519
Fax:       507.457.2415
xxxxxx@winona.msus.edu
http://www.winona.msus.edu/grants/

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