BURNHAM INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH submitted 6 NIH R21 applications
system-to-system via InfoEd's Proposal Development module and 1 NIH R21
application through PureEdge.

INFOED PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT - The proposals submitted system-to-system
via InfoEd went successfully and were accepted quickly by Grants.gov and
the NIH eRA Commons with no significant errors. The few warnings
(Department not matching and the Research Plan page limit reminder) were
inconsequential.

PURE EDGE - We experienced extreme difficulty in submitting the single
R21 through PureEdge. We had to hit the Submit button at least thirty
times (no exaggeration) and calls to the helpdesk were not helpful.
Their suggestion was to keep trying. Late-afternoon on the deadline
date, it finally went through. Definitely did not need the added stress
of this on the deadline date. Don't know how those with very many
PureEdge applications survived!

In addition to the ease of submission utilizing a system-to-system
approach, InfoEd runs smoothly on multiple platforms and prepopulates a
significant portion of the application with Institutional and Personnel
Profile information. Furthermore, the information input into the
Proposal Development module flows through to our Proposal Tracking
module and finally to our Financial System. No duplicate entry of grant
information!

Obviously, we highly recommend InfoEd over PureEdge.

Regards,
Joe x3998

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-----Original Message-----
From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On
Behalf Of Charlie Hathaway
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 11:45 AM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] S2S report on grants.gov

Over the past 2 weeks we have seen many navigating the NIH June 1
deadline for R21/R03 and heard about many errors, warnings, system
failures, system slowdowns, etc.  I assume that most of the people
contributing these battle stories were using PureEdge to submit.

Question: did anyone using a S2S mode of proposal prep and transmission
(on-site or via service provider) encounter problems?  I am not so much
interested in knowing which S2S product/service you used as I am very
curious about the SPECIFIC warnings and errors that you may have
encountered or avoided.

Thanks.

Charlie Hathaway

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