Grants.gov Electronic Proposal Submission to the Federal Government

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Grants.govElectronic Proposal Submission to the
Federal Government

• Research Administration Round Table
• September 28, 2005
• Dan Dwyer, Tammy Custer

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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

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Brief Federal eRA History

• Regulation
• Government Performance Results Act (1993)
• Government Paperwork Elimination Act (1998)
• PL 106-107 (1999)
• Presidents 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)
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Grants.gov What is it?

• Single electronic source for finding federal
  grant opportunities (find) and submitting
  proposals (apply)
• Covers 900 grant programs from 26 grant-making
  agencies (350 billion annual awards)
• Based on standard forms (SF424 RR)
• Forms based interface using PureEdge
• Development of system-to-system interface

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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

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Grants.gov NIH Announcement

• transition from the PHS398 application to the
  SF424 Research and Related (RR) application, and
• 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/NO
T-OD-05-067.html
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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)

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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

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PureEdge Demo Tammy Custer
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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

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2004 Statistics on NIH Proposals

• Proposals submitted 344
• VETERINARY MED 123 Top Departments
• ARTS SCIENCES 75 Biomedical Sciences
  39
• CALS 64 Molecular Bio 44
• HUMAN ECOLOGY 43 Microbio Immuno 29
• ENGINEERING 28 Nutritional Sci 26
• VP/RESEARCH 6 Molecular Medicine 24
• GENEVA 2 Chemistry 23
• CIS 2 Neuro Beh 23
• ILR 1
• Oct 1 deadline submissions 27

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Discussion points

• Training and awareness
• Early submissions
• System-to-system (Kuali?)
• Advisory group

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Grants.gov Resources

• Applicant Training Demonstration -Complete
  Application Package
• http//www.grants.gov/CompleteApplicationdemo
• 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

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Cornell Grants.gov Information

• http//www.osp.cornell.edu/grants.gov/

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