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| NIH Extending Correction Error Window from 2 days to 5 days for All February Grants.Gov Submissions |
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NIH announced today that because of the long submission times for Grants.Gov submissions, they are extending the error correction window from 2 days to 5 days for all proposals due in February 2009. The title of the guide notice might be misconstrued, so please make sure your investigators understand that the error correction window isn't extending through the end of February, but rather that all proposals due in February will be allowed to have 5 business days for corrections rather than 2 days. NIH hopes that this will reduce traffic due to rapid-fire correction submissions on the Grants.Gov server during these first hectic submissions of Adobe packages for major deadlines. The full text of the notice can be found at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-045.html.
Note that this only applies to proposals that have already successfully passed validation and acceptance on the Grants.Gov server. This means that we still must make sure that all proposals are successfully submitted and accepted (validated) by the Grants.Gov server by the published deadlines. The Grants.Gov validation process can take a full 24 hours after we submit the proposal. Grants.Gov validation looks for things like making sure there is a valid DUNS number; that the files are virus-free; making sure the application package used is current and the proposal window is still open for that solicitation; and that the files are not "corrupt" because of use of the wrong versions of Adobe.
SPA is currently experiencing (even this far in advance of the February 5th deadline) very long submission times on the Grants.Gov server, so please do your very best to ensure that all Grants.Gov submissions are turned in to SPA with the full five day lead time. To be considered on-time, a Grants.Gov application must be submitted to SPA 5 business days in advance, be complete (ready for submission) and have a fully-signed PRF. For February 5th submissions, this translates to 9:00 a.m. tomorrow (January 30th.)
-- Pamela
Posted 1/29/09
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