Have you run this idea by your faculty for comment?

Realistically, your office would have likely already heard if there had
been some type of "error" that it might have had a role in (i.e. budget,
version of grants.gov PDF form, etc.).

Most of the administrative failures of a grant proposal are dealt with
before the proposal hits peer review.   I don't want to minimize the
role that research administrators can play in supporting successful
research and the proposals that generate research funds, but most (if
not all) of what you find in reviewers' comments is a conversation
within the specific scientific community that reviewed a proposal.

Unless you have a really specific plan in place in how you review these
comments and provide guidance to your faculty, I don't think that a
typical sponsored projects/contracts and grants office has the
know-how/expertise that a PI's colleagues and mentors will provide
him/her in creating successful grant proposals in the future.
Otherwise you are setting yourself for creating a new administrative
burden of managing pieces of paper and PDFs and nagging PIs to give you
missing pieces of paper and PDF.

Michael Joseph Kusiak
Research Policy Analyst
University of California, Office of the President
Email: xxxxxx@ucop.edu
Phone: 510-987-0659

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From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On
Behalf Of Lawrence Waxler
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 5:25 AM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] Proposal Review Comments

We are planning on implementing a formal policy which will require PIs
to share reviewer comments with us. This will help us guide those who
are developing re-submissions and those who have received rejections and
are uncertain what course to pursue. To date, we have only asked that
these comments be shared with us on an informal/volunteer basis.

So, do any of you have such a policy, and how successful and useful has
it been.

Larry

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Larry Waxler, Director
Office of Sponsored Programs
University of Southern Maine
15 Baxter Boulevard
P.O. Box 9300
Portland, ME  04104-9300
Telephone: 207-780-4413
Telefax: 207-780-4927

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