I just received some additional explanation from the Grants.gov Customer
Support. (The term "authorized organization representative" is apparently
not necessariliy intended to be understood to be synonymous with "authorized
official" ...?) Anyway, I'm passing along the response in case others can
benefit.

Molly

Hi Molly ...

I'd like to provide further clarification on your question:

Before submitting an application, your organization must complete the Get
Started steps. The registrations need only to be completed once.

Your organization will need to complete the CCR registration. In this
registration, you will be required to designate a Point of Contact. This
person (the Grants.gov EBiz POC) will be the person who needs to approve the
people who register to be able to submit applications on behalf of their
organization.

Only Authorized Organization Representatives (AORs) will be able to submit
an application on behalf of your organization. Your organization can
designate anyone it chooses as an AOR. AORs will need to complete two
registrations (the Credential Provider and Grants.gov registrations) and
then be approved by the EBiz POC before they will be able to submit
applications. Once an AOR completes both registrations, the EBiz POC will
receive an email stating that someone has signed up to submit applications
on behalf of their organization. The EBiz POC will then need to log into the
EBiz section of Grants.gov using their DUNS number and MPIN and assign the
"Authorized Applicant" role to the AOR. After an AOR is assigned the
"Authorized Applicant" role, they will be able to submit applications.

Again, your organization will only need to register with CCR once and each
AOR will only need to complete the Credential Provider and Grants.gov
registrations once.

While waiting for the registrations to become active, anyone at your
organization can find a grant, download the application package and complete
the application. Once the application is complete, the AOR will then need to
submit it. During the submission process, the AOR will be required to log
into Grants.gov to verify that they are authorized to submit applications on
behalf of their organization.

Your organization can choose whomever it wants as the Point of Contact in
the CCR registration. This person's only responsibility will be to assign
the "Authorized Applicant" role to each of your AORs after they complete
their registrations. You can also designate anyone as an AOR and may have
numerous AORs for your agency.

I hope that this answers your question better. If you have any additional
questions, please call me at 1-800-518-4726.

Thank you.

Kristina

Customer Support
www.grants.gov

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