On Dec 7, 2006, at 4:16 PM, Tara Riemer Jones wrote:

> I must admit I had a similar problem with NOAA on a different grant
> program deadline a little over a year ago, and I got absolutely
> nowhere.  But that one was a little more "our fault."  There was a
> bug in the Grants.gov template that would not permit an
> organization name with as many characters as we have, and the error
> message was completely unhelpful in deciphering the problem.
> Grants.gov would not let me submit due to the error.  I assembled
> the package into a pdf and emailed it to them by the deadline, but
> it was not accepted.  The Grants.gov help desk was closed for the
> night when this occurred even though we were several hours before
> the deadline.  They claimed I could have mailed it (the closest
> post office open after 4:30pm is a 2 hour drive away, so that
> really wasn't feasible) and that we should have submitted it earlier.
>
> I wish I had a recommendation.  NOAA has been surprisingly hard-
> nosed with this new technology.  We had reasons not to stir the pot
> with the grant program we had problems with, so I did not escalate it.
>
> TRJ
>
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> Tara Riemer Jones, Ph.D.
> Grants and Contracts Manager
> Alaska SeaLife Center
> (800) 224-2525 ext. 6343
> (907) 224-6343 direct
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> xxxxxx@alaskasealife.org
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>
> From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On
> Behalf Of Maryellen O'Brien
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 7:52 AM
> To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
> Subject: [RESADM-L] NOAA grants.gov proposal rejection
>
> Hi,
>
> Our PI submitted a large, multi-year, multi-institutional proposal
> to the NOAA CSCOR program at about 2PMfor the 3PM deadline.  Our
> documents show that it was a full proposal and it sailed through
> all the grants.gov confirmations/validations.  A week later, I got
> a call/email from NOAA stating that the mandatory documents were
> missing, i.e. biosketches, other support, etc.  I checked our file
> as did the PI and all was in order.  NOAA’s initial comment was
> along the lines of “well, if he didn’t wait until the last day to
> submit, he could’ve resubmitted and met the deadline”.  I couldn’t
> resubmit throught grants.gov upon their notification to me and they
> couldn’t accept an email of the .xfd file because it was too
> large.  Within 24 hours we assembled the entire package into a
> single PDF file and emailed it to them I’ve spent the last month
> following up on its status.  They just notified the PI that they
> will not accept his proposal because it’s considered incomplete at
> submission.  This is the second time we’ve had an .xfd file arrive
> at NOAA in a format that was not what left our office.  In the last
> case, NOAA just asked us to provide a correct copy.
>
>
>
> I’m wondering if any of you have had a similar experience or any
> thoughts on how we might resolve this?  I’m at a total loss.  Thank
> you for your assistance.
>
>
>
> Maryellen O'Brien
>
> Acting Director
>
> Office of Research and
>
>   Sponsored Programs
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