Bob,

This is a new institution for me, so I haven't gone through any
grants.gov submissions with them yet. However, at my previous
institution PI's can often avoid some of the budget details/numbers by
providing general costs and effort -- and allowing the admin staff to
compute the final numbers.

In theory (a perfect world) a PI should be focusing on the appropriate
level of effort for completion of the project and that will dictate the
salary numbers. Sometimes their level of involvement ends with Co-Invs
negotiating available/proper effort. The admins typically convert to
salary and fringe.

Peter Connor, MS
Senior Financial Analyst
ENH Research Institute

The person submitting the application -- AOR -- gets the messages.
Four messges - Application arrived at Grants.gov, Verified by
Grants.gov, Picked up by agency, Verified by agency.  Nothing goes to
PI from Grants.gov, unless the PI is also the AOR.

NIH does notify the PI that an application has arrive, with errors,
warnings or is ok.  If the latter two, the PI can view it in the eRA
Commons. Some other agencies do this, but not as strict as NIH.  NSF
applications can be viewed in FastLane.

How can you prevent a PI from knowing the salary of people in his
project?  How did the PI make up the budget?

Bob
xxxxxx@umich.edu

On Jan 17, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Connor, Peter wrote:

During the Grants.gov webcast yesterday they briefly mentioned the
series of e-mails PI's receive after an electronic submission by the
institutional signing authority (confirmation, validation, tracking
number, etc).

They didn't mention it, but I'm assuming PI's will still receive an e-
mail allowing review of the final submission package for errors
(shouldn't allow changes under most circumstances).

My question is; how do other institutions protect salary information,
which appears in the grant package? The access to a final copy of the
proposal often allows them to see salary information of co-workers
and colleagues.

Is there a way to avoid this disclosure of private information and
keep the PI from seeing salaries?

We have floated the idea of putting an administrative e-mail address
in the grants.gov submission, instead of the PI's - but we are leery
of potential consequences or ramifications.

Peter Connor, MS
Senior Financial Analyst
ENH Research Institute

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