I am emailing the ListServe to see if anyone else is having the problems I had yesterday with a HRSA submission via Grants.gov  I submitted the grant before lunch and received the following email:

Your submission was received on 10-Dec-08 03:31:12 PM, ET
.
However, it contained the following errors and cannot be forwarded to the granting agency. The following errors were detected:
Error:Schema validation failed
DefaultValidationHandler found 3 problems:
 1 Warnings:
 1: (line 21 column 150) src-import.0: Failed to read imported schema document 'http://apply07.grants.gov/apply/system/schemas/Header-V1.0.xsd'.
 2 Errors:
 1: (line 38 column 54) src-resolve: Cannot resolve the name 'header:GrantSubmissionHeader' to a(n) element declaration component.
 2: (line 2 column 555) cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content starting with element 'header:GrantSubmissionHeader'. One of '{"http://apply.grants.gov/system/MetaGrantApplication":Forms}' is expected.

The document is NOT valid!

I called Grants.gov and was told I had the wrong Adobe software which I knew I did not and I knew the PI was using the right software.  I resubmitted the grant and got an email that it had been received and was being validated.  I got to work this morning and found that I had several emails on both submissions.

There were two more emails on the first submission advising there were errors and then there was emails that it had been validated and retrieved by the agency.  I also received validation and retrieval emails on the second submission.  I called Grants.gov and was told the system was kicking out the Schema Validation Errors and they were unsure why.  I was told that If I got an email even if the email showed errors that I should not worry about it and know that it went through the system.

How do you not worry about an email you receive that shows you have errors.  And because it is taking so long to get these emails how would you know that it went through.  This makes the average person think that the grant should be resubmitted.  Now the application has been submitted twice and I am having to email HRSA to explain what happened.

Is this happening to anyone else?  This is a little irritating.  Robert Beattie can you do something about this?

Ashley W. Turbeville

Ashley W. Turbeville, Director
Office of Health Systems Grants Administration and Development
University of South Alabama
CSAB 118
Mobile, AL  36688
Telephone:  251/460-6307
FAX: 251/461-1595
email: xxxxxx@usouthal.edu

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