Grants.govElectronic 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)

OMB announces E-Government Strategy (2002)

Systems:• NSF FastLane

initiated (1994)• Federal Commons

concept proposed (1998)

• NSF FastLane submission required (2000)

• Many single agency systems (2001-2005)

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 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 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

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/