In reponse to Bob and Ellen I would like to add that the Office of Naval Research has had a system in place to submit proposals electronically and we will be at a boot at SRA and NCURA. Though we have a system that is an agency stand-alone we are working with Grants.Gov to so that we are full compatible and will be able to shut this portion of ProposalWeb down when Grants.Gov is fully on-line. I have also done some work with Adobe Acrobat version 7.0 beta release 4 (comoing out in December) and I have mapped the entire Grants.Gov Joe Bass, JSB Consulting, LLC Managing Member xxxxxx@JSB-Consulting.com Mobile: 240-305-8056 -----Original Message----- From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG] On Behalf Of Beck, Ellen Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 12:43 PM To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG Subject: [RESADM-L] eRA As a confirmation of what Bob Beattie, Univ of Mich, wrote on NIH, eRA, and vendors, several institutions have successfully partnered with vendors or used their own internal systems for pilot submissions to NIH. (We partnered with InfoEd for a successful transmission of a new competitive grant submission this past June.) There are differences among the various vendors, so it is worthwhile to check out information contained in the NIH eRA web pages: Submitting Grants Electronically to the NIH (contains an NIH questionnaire where vendors provide information on their services/product) -- http://era.nih.gov/Projectmgmt/SBIR/sbir_grants.htm NIH eRA Partnership Information (general and technical info for service providers, also contains links for what can be expected from the PI and SPO during a pilot) -- http://era.nih.gov/Projectmgmt/SBIR/ NIH has also reported that the end-to-end processing for eCGAP soon will be available at the Commons demo site. This will provide PIs and other staff who submit applications to try out the new electronic system and to practice using it before attempting to submit their application. -- Ellen Beck ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:15:37 -0400 From: Robert Beattie <xxxxxx@UMICH.EDU> Subject: Re: eRA 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. 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