Looks like we are in the lead on submission attempts - we're up to 8!

We're still getting the Indirect Costs calculation error.

I think that we have tried every combination and permutation (for you
statistics fans) of rounding up, down, and around. We've changed the IC
base so that when multiplied by the rate it comes out to an even number,
etc., etc.,etc................

Fortunately, we all have nothing else to do, so sitting around waiting
for the error messages is a great way to pass the time - yeh, right.

Larry Waxler, Director
Office of Sponsored Programs
University of Southern Maine
P.O. Box 9300
Portland, ME 04104-9300
Telephone: 207-780-4413
Telefax: 207-780-4927

Chesnut, Bob wrote:

>
>
> We (Eastern Illinois University) succeeded on our fourth attempt to
> submit an AREA proposal.  We had to overcome two errors:
>
> 1. Like several other institutions, our F&A amount generated an
> error.  We solved this problem by two methods:  trial and error (with

> emphasis on the trial).
>
>       On the first attempt, we rounded down to the nearest dollar.
>       On the second attempt, we rounded up to the nearest dollar.
>       On the third attempt, we truncated to the nearest cent (since
> the real number had half a cent in it).
>       On the fourth attempt, we, ahem, rebudgeted so that the F&A
> total came out to an integer value.  That solved the F&A problem.
>
>
> 2. Invalid email address of the "person to be contacted" on form SF
424
>
>       I kept getting the statement that my email address was
> invalid.   It turns out that in the 424 field, I had entered a space

> after my email address without realizing it.
>
>       Of course, you can't see a space at the end by looking at what

> you have entered. So Commons was holding a six-figure proposal
hostage
> to an invisible space
>
>       after the end of my email address.  As Dave Barry says, I am
not
> making this up.  I never would have found this problem on my own.  It

> was found by the very
>
>       helpful NIH support person who cheerfully cussed the Commons
> software.
>
>
> Bob Chesnut (not Chestnut)
> Eastern Illinois University
>
>
>
>
>
>
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