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Grants.gov Electronic Proposal Submission to the Federal Government Research Administration Round Table September 28, 2005 Dan Dwyer, Tammy Custer Agenda • How did we get here? – Dan Dwyer – Federal eRA & Grants.gov history • Current situation – Tammy Custer – Demo of PureEdge forms – PureEdge usage tips • Where do we go? – group discussion – Cornell support & development plans Brief Federal eRA History Regulation: • Government Performance Results Act (1993) • Government Paperwork Elimination Act (1998) • PL 106-107 (1999) • President’s Management Agenda (2001) Systems: • NSF FastLane initiated (1994) • Federal Commons concept proposed (1998) • NSF FastLane submission required (2000) • Many single agency systems (2001-2005) OMB announces E-Government Strategy (2002) Grants.gov: What is it? • Single electronic source for finding federal grant opportunities (find) and submitting proposals (apply) • Covers 900 grant programs from 26 grantmaking agencies ($350 billion annual awards) • Based on standard forms (SF424 R&R) • Forms based interface using PureEdge • Development of system-to-system interface Grants.gov: History • 2002: Established by OMB to develop “find” and “apply” functions across all federal grant making agencies • Oct 2003: First electronic proposals accepted • Sept 2005: Over 15,000 applications received to date • FY06: 75% of Find Opportunities on Apply Grants.gov: NIH Announcement 1. transition from the PHS398 application to the SF424 Research and Related (R&R) application, and 2. simultaneously transition to electronic submission via Grants.gov by the end of 2007 Notice Number: NOT-OD-05-067, August 19, 2005 http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-067.html Grants.gov: NIH Schedule • December 1, 2005 —Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer Programs (STTR) (R41, R42, R43, R44) • December 15, 2005 —Support for Conferences & Scientific Meetings (R13 & U13) • January 25, 2006 —Academic Research Enhancement Awards (AREA) (R15) • June 1, 2006 —Small Grant Programs (R03) & Exploratory/Development Research Grant Awards (R21) • October 1, 2006 —Research Project Grant Program (R01) Grants.gov: Other Agencies • NSF: Working towards accepting awards. No indication (yet) that FastLane will go away anytime soon • USDA: Slow rollout. Using for some programs. Cornell is pilot project partner • Smaller agency are generally moving more rapidly to grants.gov PureEdge Demo – Tammy Custer PureEdge Usage Tips • Do Not Register! Cornell is registered as institution. Users do not need to get DUNS number or CCR registration • No native Macintosh support • PDF manipulation skills required • Submit completed PureEdge package along with Form 10 to SPS for submission • Plan extra time for submission complications 2004 Statistics on NIH Proposals • Proposals submitted: 344 VETERINARY MED ARTS & SCIENCES CALS HUMAN ECOLOGY ENGINEERING VP/RESEARCH GENEVA CIS ILR 123 75 64 43 28 6 2 2 1 Top Departments: Biomedical Sciences Molecular Bio Microbio & Immuno Nutritional Sci Molecular Medicine Chemistry Neuro & Beh • Oct 1 deadline submissions: 27 39 44 29 26 24 23 23 Discussion points • • • • Training and awareness Early submissions System-to-system (Kuali?) Advisory group Grants.gov Resources • Applicant Training Demonstration -Complete Application Package • http://www.grants.gov/CompleteApplication#demo • Applicant System-to-System Implementation Resources • http://www.grants.gov/DoingBusinessApplicant • XML Find Database Extract http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/ • Outreach Communication Resources http://www.grants.gov/Communications • Customer Feedback Findings Reports http://www.grants.gov/MarketResearch Cornell Grants.gov Information http://www.osp.cornell.edu/grants.gov/