You can fill in the first year.  The only two required items for the
first year are for the PI and the budget justification.  Is there no
PI for the first year, no effort? That is difficult to fix.  You will
need a justification in any event.  You will also need to put in the
sub-award/ contractual /consortium totals in the first year also.

You can put in a nominal amount of effort for the PI and in the
budget justification note that this is just a place holder.  Strange
that you can have a project with no PI effort in a year. Who is
managing the sub-awards?

Bob
xxxxxx@umich.edu

On Nov 7, 2007, at 8:20 AM, Maldonis, Joanne wrote:

 Our office has just run into a situation in which there are no
costs to the
prime for the first year of a 5 year budget, but there are costs for
years 2-5.
How does one get around this situation, because the system won't let
you go
forward without filling in the first year budget.  Has anyone else
run into this
situation?

Joanne Maldonis
Grants Administrator II
Research Management
Brigham and Women's Hospital
75 Francis Street, Boston, MA  02115
Tel: 617-954-9646
Fax: 617-954-9680
Email: xxxxxx@partners.org

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