Based on our experience as a Vendor - we prefer SRA.

Scott

At 01:15 PM 10/19/2004 -0400, you wrote:

>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
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>On Oct 19, 2004, at 11:08 AM, Pamela Miller wrote:
>
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>
>  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
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>  Remorse from power."
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>  Brutus, Act 2, Scene 1
>  Julius Caesar.
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