Re: eRA Robert Beattie 19 Oct 2004 12:15 EST
A couple of years ago NIH put out an RFP for an SBIR to obtain vendors to help with development of the NIH Commons. There were a number of tasks for the vendors, all of which were part of CGAP. Now eCGAP -- electronic Competing Grant Application Project. THere were a 6 vendors selected. See here for more details http://era.nih.gov/Projectmgmt/SBIR/sbir_grants.htm Some are, and may be in the future, a service provider. You send them your grant and they submit it to NIH. Others provide, or say they will provide in the future, a program for you to use at your own institution to create an electronic proposal that you can send to NIH. At the University of Michigan we have been working with the Cayuse company to use their GrantSlam program to prepare the proposals locally and then send to NIH. They reconfigured their long standing paper application producing program to create a data stream for the electronic submission. The NIH plans to put the eCGAP into production in January 2005 for R01 R03 and R21 new and competing modular applications. If you want to participate you will need to find a vendor to work with. Don't panic, however, like the early days of FastLane, this is not mandatory. Purely voluntary. Moreover, there is always Grants.gov to use for electronic submission. Put your NIH 398 data into the 424R&R format. I think there will be NIH and G.g people the forthcoming SRA and NCURA national meetings to explain what's going on. Also vendors will be there too, I think. Is it true that SRA is more friendly to vendors than is NCURA? By the way, if you do not want to hook up with a vendor, you can build your own links to the NIH Commons for the various applications like you can do for the System to System version of Grants.gov. Bob __________________________________ Robert Beattie Managing Senior Project Representative for Electronic Research Administration Division of Research Development and Administration University of Michigan 3003 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1274 office: 734 936-1283 mobile: 734 717-6281 xxxxxx@umich.edu On Oct 19, 2004, at 11:08 AM, Pamela Miller wrote: <image.tiff> I received this--Anyone using their stuff? Feedback? "The NIH electronic Research Administration (eRA) has selected Formatta Corporation as a partner in the development of products that facilitate the electronic submission of grant applications." Pam Pamela F. Miller, Ph.D. Director, Office of Sponsored Projects The University of San Francisco 2130 Fulton Street San Francisco, CA 94117-1080 TEL 415-422-5368 FAX 415-422-6222 EMAIL xxxxxx@usfca.edu "The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins Remorse from power." Brutus, Act 2, Scene 1 Julius Caesar. ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================