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Once proposal review has been completed by OSR—and the Proposal Routing Sheet and any required certification forms are duly signed (by the principal investigator and co-principal investigators, with approval signoffs by the department/laboratory director and dean) and filed with OSR—a proposal may be signed on behalf of the Institute and submitted to a sponsor.
Only the Executive Director of Sponsor Research (as the authorized institutional official) or someone designated by the Executive Director may sign proposals on behalf of the Institute.
With greater frequency proposals are being submitted electronically. For example, the federal government increasingly is mandating use of Grants.gov for proposal submission processing. Investigators should be sensitive to the fact that many of the associated submission deadlines have hard time cut-offs, past which the proposal will not be accepted. Therefore it is essential that proposals be finalized in a timely manner, with enough advance time-flexibility to allow OSR staff to proceed with the submission steps associated with electronic submission and still meet the strict deadlines imposed by sponsors.
OSR keeps the Institute’s official copy of record for all proposals submitted in its files. Proposal information is entered into the ORS database for tracking, record keeping, reporting, and Institute management planning purposes. From time to time OSR staff will contact investigators to ascertain the status of outstanding proposals in order to keep its database as accurate as possible.
Announcement of OSR Website and Required Use of Proposal Routing Sheet – June 30, 2006
Deans Council Memorandum Regarding Approval of Proposals and Acceptance of Awards from External Sponsors – June 20, 2006
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NSF FASTLANE (Reminder: Registration in FastLane requires coordination through OSR)
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