We have discussed the Demo tutorial on Grants.gov.  But does anyone know of plans for a dummy proposal Pure Edge practice submission process?

Charlie

At 10:03 AM 11/8/2005, you wrote:
>Note that the Grants.gov Director said at the September FDP meeting
>that they would be offering a temporary Citrix solution by December
>1, 2005.  This is being done with help from NIH eRA staff.  Moreover,
>she said that PureEdge would have a native Mac (and other non- windows) solution by November of 2006.  Too bad that is a month after
>the Big R01 deadline.
>
>Also, are you really planning to have PI "submit applications from
>their own computers?"  Perhaps you might want to have the grants
>office staff submit the applications.
>
>Nevertheless, the PI's and their support staff will need to be able
>to download the application files with PureEdge in order to complete
>them.
>
>Bob
>xxxxxx@umich.edu
>
>
>
>
>On Nov 8, 2005, at 9:32 AM, Jon Hart wrote:
>
>Our biggest problem is that 50% of our investigators use the MAC
>platform,
>and grants.gov (specifically the PureEdge software) is designed to be
>used
>with a Windows PC.  The MAC "fix" doesn't really work, and we are
>looking
>into buying a Citrix server (approx. $40K), buying everyone a PC, and
>other
>ways to allow MAC users to submit applications from their own computers.
>Major, major problem for us.
>
>Joni.
>
>
>Jon Hart, M.P.A., C.I.P.
>Senior Director
>Office of Sponsored Programs Administration
>Human Subjects Protections Program
>The Rockefeller University
>email:  xxxxxx@mail.rockefeller.edu
>Tel:  (212) 327-8054; fax:  (212) 327-8400
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG] On
>Behalf Of
>Rochelle R Athey
>Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 6:04 PM
>To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
>Subject: [RESADM-L] Grants.gov issues and problems
>
>Dear all:
>
>The State of Texas has been offered the opportunity to meet with GAO to
>discuss implementation issues related to PL106-107 and the Governor's
>Office
>graciously invited UT Austin to participate in the opportunity to share
>information with GAO.
>
>This is a great opportunity to be heard by an organization that might be
>able to help us with Grants.gov implementation.
>
>I have collected information about Grants.gov issues from the FDP
>website
>and NCURA (and I have scoured resadm-l archives).
>
>Nevertheless, I would like to obtain more data from you, the people
>who most
>often work with Grants.gov and ponder its usefulness or lack thereof.
>
>Do any of you have a summary list of Grants.gov problems available?
>
>I have already noted in my written materials for GAO that there are
>issues
>with bandwidth, difficulties with the SF424 R&R, CCR registration
>problems,
>and communication problems between federal agencies and Grants.gov on
>what
>is needed to move forward on the project.
>
>What else should I communicate?  GAO seems particularly interested in
>the
>following problems (not exclusively focused on Grants.gov):  the
>proliferation of agency electronic systems, system-to-system
>interfaces with
>Grants.gov, and lack of coordination among federal agencies re
>information
>to be submitted.
>
>Please forward comments and concerns to me prior to November 11th so
>I can
>include them in the discussion with GAO.
>
>Thanks in advance for your help!
>
>Rochelle R. Athey
>The University of Texas at Austin
>Associate Director, Sponsored Projects
>PO Box 7726
>Austin, TX 78713-7726
>512-471-6448
>512-471-6564 fax
>
>
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