Many years ago I attended one of NCURA's intro to sponsored projects programs.  The speaker was the head of an OSP from a university in Washington State.  At the time, he said they did $400M plus in research.

He said his office requested proposals in be in for review 10 days in advance.  Their rule was his office did not pay overnight shipping costs.   If a department brought their proposal in late, the overnight shipping charges had to be paid on department's end.  He said it was rare they had any problems.

Barb

Barb Bushnell
Coordinator, Accounting
University of South Florida
College of Business Administration, BSN  3403
4202 East Fowler Avenue
Tampa, FL  33620
Phone:  (813) 974-3270
Fax:  (813) 974-3030

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Of Andrew M. Parkerson-Gray
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:49 PM
To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
Subject: [RESADM-L] Lead Time for Your OSP?

Hello all,

This is just an informal poll to see how much lead time your sponsored
programs office requires to review a proposal. We ask for 5 business
days to allow for the proposal load, corrections, major problems, etc.
We also want the final draft, not rough drafts unless we had arranged to
help review and edit those ahead of time. What does your OSP do?

Thanks,
Andrew

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Andrew M. Parkerson-Gray, CRA
Senior Pre-Award Administrator
UAF Office of Sponsored Programs
909 N. Koyukuk Drive / P.O. Box 757270
West Ridge Research Building, Suite 212F
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7270

Phone:  (907) 474-1851
Fax:    (907) 474-5444
E-mail: xxxxxx@uaf.edu
Web:    http://www.uaf.edu/osp/
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