I usually address the cover letter to the agency. To NIH specifically, I address it to the Center for Scientific Review.

Vicki
480-965-2171
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From: Research Administration List [xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of Deborah Hofer [xxxxxx@SOU.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 5:23 PM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] Help with a grants.gov error

Same problem here. Even though I had the correct version of Adobe, I uninstalled and reinstalled, deleted the original application, restarted re-did the whole thing and resubmitted. I went through the whole process twice before it went through.

Question: to whom do you address the cover letter? My submission was to NIH and I included all pertinent info (a billion tracking and service ticket numbers) on the cover letter they require. Do you address a cover letter to g.g or the retrieving agency? If to g.g, where do you attach it?

Deborah d'Este Hofer MM
Grants & Sponsored Programs
Institutional Review Board Administrator
Southern Oregon University
1250 Siskiyou Blvd
Ashland, OR 97520
Churchill #205
541.552.8662
xxxxxx@sou.edu<mailto:xxxxxx@sou.edu>

>>> "Hudobenko,Paul F." <xxxxxx@ADP.UCHC.EDU> 3/17/2009 11:35 AM >>>
We have had this error and were told that it was because the incorrect
version of Adobe was used somewhere in the application creation stream.
That was not the case however. The grants.gov help desk was going to
look into it and get back to me. It has been over a month and no one has
ever gotten back to me. We resubmitted the same package with a cover
letter (that included the g.g case number as it was late by then) a few
days later and it made it through fine.

If you are certain that a correct version of Adobe was used to create
the package then I would suggest that you get a case number from
grants.gov and attempt to resubmit.

Paul Hudobenko
University of Connecticut Health Center

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Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:17 PM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] Help with a grants.gov error

I just received the same rejection on a resubmission.  There is nothing
wrong with my application file, and I suspect nothing is wrong with
yours either.  This looks like a glitch with the G.g system, so I will
just try to submit again.

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From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org]On Behalf
Of Dimmitt, Robert
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 8:56 AM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] Help with a grants.gov error

Hello my fellow research admins.... I was hoping I could tap into some
knowledge out there on a string of errors we received from grants.gov on
an application we submitted yesterday.  I have been on hold with g.g for
a while and not getting anywhere.

From what I can tell, it looks like it does not like something in the
detailed budgets, however, this is a modular submission so no detailed
budgets were submitted.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

Rob Dimmitt
Indiana University

______________________________________
Dear Applicant:

Your submission was received on 16-Mar-09 07:05:15 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 20 problems:
20 Errors:
1: (line 2 column 12955) cvc-enumeration-valid: Value '' is not
facet-valid with respect to enumeration '[Project,
Subaward/Consortium]'. It must be a value from the enumeration.
2: (line 2 column 12955) cvc-type.3.1.3: The value '' of element
'RR_Budget:BudgetType' is not valid.
3: (line 2 column 13052) cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content
was found starting with element 'RR_Budget:BudgetYear'. One of
'{"http://apply.grants.gov/forms/RR_Budget-V1.1":BudgetYear1}' is
expected.
4: (line 2 column 13211) cvc-id.3: A field of identity
constraint 'BudgetPeriodUnique' matched element 'RR_Budget', but this
element does not have a simple type.
5: (line 2 column 22561) cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1: '' is not a
valid value for 'decimal'.
6: (line 2 column 22561) cvc-type.3.1.3: The value '' of element
'RR_Budget:CumulativeTotalFundsRequestedSeniorKeyPerson' is not valid.
7: (line 2 column 22612) cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1: '' is not a
valid value for 'decimal'.
8: (line 2 column 22612) cvc-type.3.1.3: The value '' of element
'RR_Budget:CumulativeTotalFundsRequestedPersonnel' is not valid.
9: (line 2 column 22695) cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1: '' is not a
valid value for 'decimal'.
10: (line 2 column 22695) cvc-type.3.1.3: The value '' of
element 'RR_Budget:CumulativeTotalFundsRequestedEquipment' is not valid.
11: (line 2 column 22805) cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1: '' is not a
valid value for 'decimal'.
12: (line 2 column 22805) cvc-type.3.1.3: The value '' of
element 'RR_Budget:CumulativeTotalFundsRequestedTravel' is not valid.
13: (line 2 column 22918) cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1: '' is not a
valid value for 'decimal'.
14: (line 2 column 22918) cvc-type.3.1.3: The value '' of
element 'RR_Budget:CumulativeTotalFundsRequestedTraineeCosts' is not
valid.
15: (line 2 column 23039) cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1: '' is not a
valid value for 'decimal'.
16: (line 2 column 23039) cvc-type.3.1.3: The value '' of
element 'RR_Budget:CumulativeTotalFundsRequestedOtherDirectCosts' is not
valid.
17: (line 2 column 23126) cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1: '' is not a
valid value for 'decimal'.
18: (line 2 column 23126) cvc-type.3.1.3: The value '' of
element 'RR_Budget:CumulativeTotalFundsRequestedDirectCosts' is not
valid.
19: (line 2 column 23187) cvc-datatype-valid.1.2.1: '' is not a
valid value for 'decimal'.
20: (line 2 column 23187) cvc-type.3.1.3: The value '' of
element 'RR_Budget:CumulativeTotalFundsRequestedDirectIndirectCosts' is
not valid.

The document is NOT valid!

Please correct the above error(s) and resubmit your application to
Grants.gov.

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