I second what Lynn Rollins said.

Being able to develop the proposal as a series of files on a remote
server, accessible for review or editing by as many people as needed, is
a tremendous advantage of Fastlane.  Easy printing of the whole thing is
another.

I will add that the Fastlane system is much better because it allows SRO
maintenance of institutional data. IOW, it makes no sense that for each
grants.gov submission the institutions have to repeat the DUNS and other
institutional data that could be maintained by SROs for their
institution on the recipient server.

Rick Francis, Ph.D., C.R.A.
Director, RSP (Health Science Campus) & Research Info. Svcs.
-----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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