Re: NSF Grants.gov submissions Amy Cuhel-Schuckers 04 Apr 2007 10:31 EST
Error messages: Before submission to Grants.gov, you have the opportunity to click on the button titled 'Check Package for Errors' located at the upper right of the main page of the Pure Edge Grant Application package. If you have failed to input items in any of the fill-in-able boxes, this will count as an error that you must correct before the 'Submit' button becomes active. I don't know what happens if you have failed to upload a required document, but I think if there was no upload document that you would be given an error message. You will NOT get an error message, however, if you submitted a 31 page document instead of, for example, a required 30 page narrative. Disappearing proposals: We recently had a proposal stuck in never-never land between Grants.gov and US Ed. Grants.gov assigned its number to our proposal, and ostensibly transferred it to US Ed listing a date/time stamp of when our proposal had been received by the agency. However, US Ed hadn't assigned a tracking number (we could see this by checking the 'Check Application Status' chart when we logged in). So we first e-mailed Grants.gov, got an auto reply but no follow up. So we e-mailed the agency explaining the situation and were told that without a tracking number they could not access our proposal. Then we called Grants.gov, whereupon we were told that since the proposal had been passed to the agency it was out of their hands, but they assigned a case number. [Talk about a catch 22!] We then e-mailed the agency contact again, and attached a print screen showing the Grants.gov 'Check Application Status' window. Finally, we got a reply stating that that particular US Ed department does not send a receipt, but that they had our proposal for $xxxxx and gave us the tracking number for that proposal. TO THIS DAY, the 'Check Application Status' window at Grants.gov does NOT indicate this tracking number for the proposal in question.... Amy Cuhel-Schuckers SUNY Fredonia -----Original Message----- From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of Jennifer Donais Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:01 AM To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org Subject: [RESADM-L] NSF Grants.gov submissions We have only done a small number of these & none has gone smoothly. We are wondering if anyone with more experience knows whether or not a proposal submitted via Grants.gov to NSF will generate error messages for missing pieces, similar to the error messages that FastLane generates in such cases (and similar to NIH's G.g submission process)? We had a proposal simply disappear between Grants.gov & FastLane (that is, we submitted it via G.g but it never showed up in FastLane apparently), and we are wondering if there should have been some feedback message to us. Thanks for the help, as always. -- Jennifer Donais, CRA Associate Director Office of Grant & Contract Administration Research Administration Building 70 Butterfield Terrace University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-5888 FAX (413) 577-1595 http:://www.umass.edu/research/ogca Please Note: My email address has changed. I am now at xxxxxx@research.umass.edu Please make a note of this. Thank you! ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================