Don: Please post the results of your conversation with NSF.

Thanks

At 04:09 PM 2/17/99 -0600, you wrote:
>        Thanks to those of you who responded to my inquiry regarding where
I might
>find the NSF Proposal Classification Form (PCF).  Indeed, as each of you
>pointed out the PCF will be made available through a form selector screen
>once a division, cluster or program within the Directorate for Biological
>Sciences has been selected as the organizational review unit for the cover
>page . However (as I've since learned from reading the Fastlane FAQs !),
>this will only happen when the Bio Science unit is the first or only
>organizational unit to review the proposal. In our case we were attempting
>to submit a proposal to the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program.
>As we understood the MRI instructions we were to identify both the MRI
>program and an appropriate organizational unit on the cover page. Under
>this condition, ie, the Bio Science unit was not the first or only
>organizational unit, we were not presented with a form selector screen that
>included the PCF, we were simply returned (time and again!!) to the Cover
>Page.
>        Needless to say, we submitted the proposal without the PCF and I
have a
>call into NSF to see how to proceed with sending them the PCF.
>        Hopefully, this info may save some of you from the frustration
that we
>encountered.
>        Again, thanks to those of you who responded to my SOS!
>
>Donald A. Weber
>Director, Office of Grants
>University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
>Oshkosh, WI 54901
>Telephone: 920/424-1415
>Fax Number: 920/424-7317
>E-Mail: xxxxxx@uwosh.edu
>
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