Hello All.
UMass would like to pick your collective brains...   Like many of you, I am sure, we
are stuggling with limited resources and growing demand for our services.  One area
that we are exploring is a firm internal receipt deadline for proposals to our
sponsored research office.  I would appreciate knowing how many of you set a firm
deadline for your faculty to submit proposals to your office for review & submission
to the sponsor.

If you do set an internal deadline, what is it?  Do you have a separate policy for
NSF Fastlane or other electronic proposals?  If you have a firm deadline, do you not
accept proposals from faculty members if they don't give you the requisite lead
time, or do you have an exception handling policy?  If so, what is it?

Also, what level of review do you provide on your proposals:  institutional
compliance, sponsor compliance, or both?  Is the level of review you give a proposal
related in any way to the amount of time your faculty gives your office to review it
before it is due to the sponsor?

Are there other "value added" services you provide, such as copying and mailing?
Again, are these related to how long you are given to review & process a proposal
before it is due to a sponsor?

If others would like me to share the information I receive, just drop me an email &
I'll be happy to do so....  Thanks so much for your help and information!
-jennifer
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Jennifer Donais, CRA
Assistant Director
Office of Grant & Contract Administration
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
(413) 545-5888 FAX (413) 577-1595
http://www.umass.edu/research/ogca

"If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something."

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