Shea,

You say that Fastlane is reliable, but have they handled anywhere near the amount of volume that Grants.gov has? The idea behind Grants.gov was to streamline the federal grant application process by providing a single location where an applicant could find and apply for grants from all federal agencies.

One thing that Grants.gov provides that Fastlane does not provide is S2S integration for applicants. S2S can be very useful and efficient for some of the larger institutions that are applying for several grants from several agencies.

It seems to me that Grants.gov still has some issues that they need to hash out, but they have come a long way over the past couple of years. I look forward to seeing the success of Grants.gov as they continue to improve on their processes and performance.

Nancy Anderson

-----Original Message-----
From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of L. Shea McGovern
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 8:57 AM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] Grants.gov vs Fastlane

Hi Charlie -

I find Grants.gov and the NIH Commons workable, but in answer to your question.   FastLane is very user friendly and, in the ten years that I have used it, it has been extremely reliable.   Faculty at Dartmouth who have a choice between Grants.gov and FastLane consistently choose FastLane.   I also appreciate the ability to easily generate Collaborative Proposals for funding directly to separate institutions.

Shea

--- Research Administration Discussion List wrote:
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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Shea McGovern
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