Very clever.  How does it get signed?  We are asking for the internal
routing form (IRF), and what we call the administrative shell 7 days
days prior to deadline but the final version of the PE file only 4
days in advance.  The shell includes paper routing form, 424, budget
with justification, and abstract.  Grants office reviews these in
advance of the PE file being uploaded.  Thus we do not want the IRF
with the final PE file.  We could ask PI's to pass an incomplete file
with just our review pieces but then how are they "signed."  Is this
pre-final PE file just sent as Email attachment?

In the mid-1980s, as part of the first project on electronic
submission, the Express Project, I did a comparison of just the Big
Ten university routing forms.  There was only about 15-20 percent
overlap, as I recall.  Better to just upload an electronic version
of  your own IRF if one wants to pursue this idea.  This would
require an already electronic IRF converted to PDF, perhaps, or the
scanning of a paper one.

Bob
xxxxxx@umich.edu

On Mar 21, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Maggie Pyle wrote:

Since Gg provides for an Other documents section, for those in the
know, has consideration been given to adding a provision that would
allow a university to attach their internal routing form in the Other
section? The Gg application would be routed electronically through
the university, the internal routing form would be signed
electronically, and then removed from the Gg application prior to
submission.

Even further, has NCURA, FDP, or SRA considered developing a standard
internal routing form that would be included in Gg applications for
university-eligible RFPs? Universities would have the option of using
the standard form or using their own form. Ideally, the standard form
would automatically be populated wtih data from the other required
forms and be provided with a button that will produce a data stream
which then can be exported to the university sponsored programs
database.

Maggie

Maggie Pyle, Ph.D.
Director, Office of  Sponsored Programs
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36688
www.southalabama.edu/osp
(251) 460-6456
(251) 460-7955 fax

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