This is very weird. Our PI at first created his proposal using the Q1 package (agriculture). The version he created says it is for individuals only, and the DUNS is pre-populated with the "000000000INDV." When I realized that he meant to apply for Q3 (energy), I started a whole new application for him. That was two days ago. At that time, the Q3 application also said it was for individuals and had the DUNS pre-populated with the "...INDV." This morning, I pulled up all six application packages (Q1-Q6) and now all say they are for organizations and you can enter a DUNS in all of them. I just finished creating a brand new P3 application package for our PI, and I could enter our DUNS. The application looks fine now. The only thing I can think of is that someone at EPA recognized the error and fixed it sometime after I started my first Q3 application. I would think that maybe I'm losing my marbles, except that I have the two saved application files--the PI's original Q1 file and my first Q3 file--that prove that the application packages were different a couple of days ago. Hopefully now no one else will have a problem submitting for this particular program. bg Ms. Barbara H. Gray Director of Grants & Contracts Valdosta State University 1500 North Patterson Street Valdosta, GA 31698-0429 Telephone: 229-333-7837 Fax: 229-245-3853 Email: xxxxxx@valdosta.edu -----Original Message----- From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of Robert R Beattie 1 Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 8:31 PM To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] G.G Problem with EPA P3 Student Design Competition for Sustainability?? There are 6 versions of this application: EPA-G2009-P3-Q1 – Agriculture EPA-G2009-P3-Q2 – Materials and Chemicals EPA-G2009-P3-Q3 – Energy EPA-G2009-P3-Q4 – Information Technology EPA-G2009-P3-Q5 – Water EPA-G2009-P3-Q6 – Built Environment I looked at Q6 and Q1, both of these had the note "This opportunity is only open to organizations, applicants who are submitting grant applications on behalf of a company, state, local or tribal government, academia, or other type of organization" Which one did you open with the Individual Application note? Perhaps it is a mistake in formatting. Why not contact the person listed as Agency Contact "Please contact Ron Josephon at (202) 343-9643." I would like to see the one you did open. Which was it? If it is, indeed, only for an individual, then you cannot send it as your organization AOR -- the DUNS number conflict will cause a G.g error. Whomever sends it must register as an individual to submit. You, as an organization representative, could still submit as such, if it must be sent that way. You would need to do the individual registration. Sometimes, there is an option to submit as individual or organization. Is there a check box by the note you cite? Let us know what happens. Bob Robert Beattie University of Michigan .On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:50:47 -0500, Barbara Gray <xxxxxx@VALDOSTA.EDU> wrote: > We're preparing and application for the EPA's "6th Annual P3 Awards: A > National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, > Prosperity and the Planet," which is due December 23. When we download the > application package in grants.gov (CFDA 66.516), it says that "This > opportunity is open only to individuals, applicants who are submitting > grant > applications on their behalf, and not on behalf of a company, state, local > or tribal government, academia, or other type of organization." G.g > automatically populates the DUNS field with "000000000INDV," and we are > unable to modify that. However, the program announcement indicates that > Eligible Applicants are "Public and State controlled institutions of higher > education, Private institutions of higher education, Others (see text field > entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)." > Based > on the type of program, this clearly should be an institutional grant (it > supports student research), not an individual grant to a faculty member > like > a fellowship. > > > > > > Has anyone else notice this apparent contradiction? I'm concerned that, if > we can't enter our DUNS in g.g, the submission will blow up or we will > somehow get dropped from the competition. Do I need to worry about this > or > just ignore it?. If I should contact someone about this, should it be the > g.g helpdesk or the EPA program officer? Any advice welcome. > > > > > Thanks. > > Barbara > > > > > > > > Ms. Barbara H. 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