Notice Number: NOT-OD-06-055
Key Dates
Release Date: April 7, 2006
Issued by
National Institutes of Health (NIH), (http://www.nih.gov)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) ( http://www.ahrq.gov/)
The purpose of this Notice is to inform the research community of a change in business process concerning eRA Commons verification of electronically submitted applications.
The original process for electronic submission of grant applications required that both the Signing Official (SO) and the Project Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI) access the electronic grant application in the eRA Commons , check it for completeness, and verify it via a form checkbox. This verification served as the electronic signature for the application and completed the electronic submission process.
As indicated in Guide Notice NOT-06-054, the PD/PI signature on a grant application has been replaced with an institutional compliance requirement. The application guides have been revised to reflect this business process change and to add the PD/PI assurance as an Institutional compliance requirement. This change, and the recognition of the Authorized Organization Representative's (AOR) signature at the time of application submission to Grants.gov, has allowed NIH/AHRQ to simplify the eRA Commons verification process.
Effective for applications submitted for May 10, 2006 and beyond, NIH/AHRQ will no longer require the verification of the grant application by the AOR/SO and PD/PI. The verification step will be replaced with a two business day period for checking the assembled application in eRA Commons , after which the submission process will be complete and the application will automatically move forward to the Division of Receipt and Referral, Center for Scientific Review. Within the two day period, the AOR/SO will have the ability to Reject the application and stop further processing. PD/PIs must work through the AOR/SO to Reject an application.
Although the AOR/SO and PI will no longer need to complete the verification process, NIH/AHRQ strongly encourages applicants to take advantage of the two day window to view assembled grant applications in the eRA Commons . The eRA Commons provides the only opportunity to see the grant application just as a reviewer will see it. Once the two day window has elapsed, any changes to the application must be made through and with the permission of the assigned Scientific Review Administrator and can potentially delay the processing of the application.
Please note that the following resources continue to be available for assistance in the electronic submission of grant applications to NIH/AHRQ through Grants.gov:
General Information:
http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/
http://www.ahrq.gov/path/egrants.htm
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Inquiries
Inquiries regarding this Notice should be directed to:
GrantsInfo
Office of Extramural Research
National Institutes of Health
Phone: 301-945-7573
TTY: 301-451-5936
Email: [email protected]