Re: Question re: Proposal submission confimation e-mails Connor, Peter 17 Jan 2008 17:23 EST
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 ====================================================================== I nstructions 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") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== 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") ======================================================================