Greetings Colleagues,
Research.gov now supports separately submitted collaborative proposals from multiple organizations.
Why Prepare Proposals in Research.gov?
- Proposal Setup Wizard makes it easier
- Quickly find funding opportunities, initiate a proposal, and give access to administrative staff
- Expanded compliance checking & Immediate feedback on proposals section upload
- View Research.gov compliance checks
- Higher quality proposal submissions (e.g., PDF uploads are not altered)
- Avoid “Return without Reviews” due to formatting issues
- On-screen references to relevant sections of the Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG)
- And more reasons…
There are still a few things Research.gov does not yet support, but NSF is working on it. We urge you to give Research.gov a try for your next proposal submission.
What's New in Research.gov for Separately Submitted Collaborative Proposals?
The following from NSF details what's new.
Proposal Preparation:
Proposers can select a separately submitted collaborative proposal as an option in the Proposal Creation Wizard and identify themselves as part of a lead or non-lead organization.
Linking:
The lead organization can initiate a request to link proposals with non-lead organizations. However, all proposals in the collaboration must be prepared and submitted in Research.gov and cannot be a mix of Research.gov and FastLane proposals.
New "Submission Pending" Status:
The Research.gov submission process for separately submitted collaborative proposals is different than the submission process in FastLane.
A new Research.gov “Submission Pending” status informs the organization that their proposal submission is pending in a queue until all linked lead and non-lead proposals in the collaboration attain “Submission Pending” status and can be submitted to NSF as a set.
Submit Proposal Wizard: The proposal wizard displays the lead and non-lead organization information.
Other Related Changes:
- Postdoctoral Mentoring Plan: A Postdoctoral Mentoring Plan is only required when funds for postdoctoral scholars are requested on the budget. A proposal compliance error will block proposal submission if there is a mentoring plan but no requested funds.
- Print Concatenate: This functionality is available for lead and non-lead proposals.
- New Automated Compliance Error/Warning Messages and Business Rules for Separately Submitted Collaborative Proposals: Compliance checks triggering an error will prohibit proposal submission to NSF, whereas checks triggering a warning will allow proposal submission to NSF.
- Delete In-progress Proposals: Proposers can delete their in-progress separately submitted collaborative proposals.
- Redesigned Research.gov "About" Page with New and Updated FAQs: Check out our redesigned Research.gov About Proposal Preparation and Submission webpage with links to new and updated Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) organized by topic.
Thank you,
The Office of Sponsored Programs