The best way, currently to  check the proposal, is to send it to NIH
in advance of the deadline.  Get the errors and correct them until
the application is viewable in the Commons.  Then accept or reject.
If reject, then fix and resubmit.  One could push through the system
an application with draft text as long as all the sections of the
scientific portion had pages.  This could be done while the science
parts were being completed.  There would need to be a week or so lead
time.  Then once the draft proposal were viewable on the Commons,
reject it.  Then, still within the final deadline, add the final
science to the now error free administrative sections and submit "for
real."  This is certainly not a process I would want to use from a
Grants Office perspective if there were to be dozens of
applications.   Just a possible answer to the question.

Bob
xxxxxx@umich.edu

On Jan 30, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Reynolds, Craig A. wrote:

Hi All,

This may be wishful thinking, but does anyone know if there is a way
to first check whether an NIH proposal to be submitted via Grants.gov
will pass NIH’s eRA business rule validation process BEFORE the
proposal is actually submitted?

Sorry if I missed an obvious answer somewhere.

Craig

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