My one suggestion is that you must start early to get registered!  We had to
scramble to assist a PI (not at our institution) but, cooperating with our
institution, in getting a submission made.  It finally ended up he rewrote a
bit and made our school the submitter and the fiscal signatory!  It takes at
least a week, but possibly more, to get all the registering and the proper
numbers in place with grants.gov!

Also, our financial office did the initial application for the correct
classification, codes, etc., which makes sense when you read the fine print
but then we had a bit of a dust-up in getting the MPIN from them - and you
must have that before you can do the actual first time submission.  It all
worked out in a flurry of intensity, but it was, to say the least, very
tense for about 2 hours.  Add to that the interesting fact that our entire
system had failed and until 3 pm of the day we needed to submit we had NO
internet access at all.  I was getting ready to pack up, go home, and submit
from there!  All part of the joy of electronic submissions.

That said, the actual process of getting the material into readiness for
submission was really very straightforward and much simpler than e-grants,
for example.  So, there is a bright side.

Mary H. Watson, Ph.D.
Director
Grants and Contracts
Valdosta State University
Valdosta, Georgia  31698

Phone:  229-333-7837
FAX:    229-245-3853

-----Original Message-----
From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG] On Behalf Of
Terri Hall
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 6:03 PM
To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] Grants.gov instructions

Bob,
I put together this 2-pager after help from the good folks here so I'm happy
to share if it'll help.
http://www.nd.edu/~research/Grants-GovQuickReference.pdf
Terri

Terri M. Hall
Associate Director of Sponsored Programs (eRA)
Office of Research * University of Notre Dame
511 Main Building * Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Phn: (574) 631-7378  Fax: (574) 631-6630
http://www.nd.edu/~research/
Notre Dame is an FDP institution

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Beattie" <xxxxxx@UMICH.EDU>
To: <xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG>
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 4:48 PM
Subject: [RESADM-L] Grants.gov instructions

> Does anyone have a web site or e-text that explains the Grants.gov
> submission process.  All the stuff from the government starts with "Get a
> DUNS number."
>
> I was going to write some instructions for our Grants office staff on how
> to do a submission but thought someone has probably already done this (and

> better than I could!).
>
> I see this starting with
> 1. Get the file from the PI and put it on your hard drive.
>
> but maybe there are prior steps.
>
> Thanks much for you help on this
>
> Bob Beattie
> The University of Michigan
>
>
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