NIH doesn't decide who can submit an application via Grants.gov.  Grants.gov decides. And Grants.gov says you must be designated an "AOR" by your instituion.  You may also be an NIH AO, or an NIH SO, or the coach of a Little league team.  But what matters is that you are an AOR.

I have an NIH Help Desk email that says "Spaces in pdf file names should be ok."   Yeee...yah.

CH

At 04:18 PM 6/22/2006, you wrote:
>I called the Commons Help Desk again (spoke to James), presented an embellished question and received the following reply which I may very well frame and hang.  I am cutting and pasting from the email sent to me from the help desk.
>
>Carmen Silva, USF OSP
>****************************************************
>
>Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:49:40 -0400
>From: "NIH Help Desk Notifications (DO NOT REPLY)" <xxxxxx@mail.nih.gov>
>Subject: eRA Commons Help Desk: Ticket Closure Confirmation - # ST2140407
>To: xxxxxx@usfca.edu
>
>Dear Carmen Silva,
>
>The eRA Commons Help Desk has completed your service ticket requesting the following assistance:
>
>customer needed to know if the application she submitted would go thru, because AO's cannot submit to the NIH.
>
>For your convenience the technician's resolution comments are provided below:
>
>informed the caller, that when submitting to NIH as far as progress reports, and JIT information only the SO can submit, but submitting grant applications she is allowed to do so.
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>There are multiple avenues to request support from the eRA Commons Help Desk:
>Web: http://era.nih.gov
>Email: xxxxxx@od.nih.gov
>Phone: 301-402-7469
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>301-451-5939 (TTY - Hearing Impaired Individuals Only)
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