Charlie,
Here are a few features of FastLane that come to mind that are not currently in Grants.gov:

1) you can copy a budget from year to year and new budget is eligible if only salaries change; Personnel info is also copied so need not be re-entered
2) adding collaborators is a matter of selecting their institution from a drop-down list - no DUNS needed
3) ability to link collaborative proposals - they enter their info and you do yours - each submits and FastLane "magically" links them into one proposal for reviewers
4) one-click opens form needed ... no moving it anywhere first
5) Helpdesk staff actually has experience with system

If others occur to me, I'll forward them.
Terri

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-----Original Message-----
From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Hathaway
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 11:19 AM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] Grants.gov vs Fastlane

I am giving a talk next week and anticipate being asked the question that
was so common several years ago:
"Why didn't they just use a system like Fastlane?"

I know some of the reasons why Fastlane was not a good model for doing ALL
federal grants.  However, being less familiar with Fastlane than I am with
Grants.gov and NIH Commons, could someone tell me some reasons why
Fastlane is currently better or worse to use than S2S to Gg to NIH
Commons?

thanks

Charlie

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