Re: grants.gov-god bless them (no one else will) Charlie Hathaway 01 Oct 2008 16:15 EST
Yes...and I was furious because Gg initially sent an email saying there were "unidentified errors", which was not true. What WAS true was that Gg had lost the application for a while. So, we had 2 people going over the application trying to find the mistakes, and for 2 days (!!) Gg clings to this story of errors. Eventually we submit a new application that flied thru to NIH Commons without errors. Within 30 min of this, the original submission popped out of the Gg dungeons and also lands on Commons. Of course, this one has the NIH error that there is already a similar one there. Solution? Remove the 2nd one, obviously. UNFORTUNATELY...the original submission (arriving 2nd) corrupted the later submission (arriving 1st) and we had to submit a 3rd. This required compassionate NIH Commons people assisting with the removal of the 2 corrupted ones. The part of this story I will always remember is how the Gg person, after hearing my venom, asked if I wished to file a "complaint". I said ok and she asked me for my complaint. So I tried to repeat my hysteria. THEN...she read back to me what I had said! She'd been typing it all! I think she even edited out the bad grammar and bad words. I hung up laughing and crying. Charlie > Yesterday I received an error message for a proposal we submitted -- > needed to be corrected and the proposal resubmitted. While I was working > with grant.gov to figure out the error (what a debacle that was ..) an > email > came in saying the proposal had been received and validated. Has this > happened to anyone else? Just curious. > > > > Thanks to everyone who responded regarding their confirmation response > time > yesterday. > > > > -gwen > > > > > > Gwendolyn Logan Gennaro > > Director > > Office of Sponsored Programs > > University of Colorado at Colorado Springs > > 1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway > > Colorado Springs, CO 80918 > > (p) 719-262-3153 > > (f) 719-262-3706 > > http://web.uccs.edu/osp/ > > > > > > ====================================================================== > 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") ======================================================================