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Grants Processing Deadline

Grant Services & Analysis
Jul 1, 2019 12:00 pm

The Medical School Grant Services & Analysis (GS&A) Office requests that all proposals be submitted to the office ten (10) business days prior to the sponsor's proposal deadline. This includes the cumulative time needed for both the Medical School GS&A Office to review the application and to meet the required ORSP Deadline Policy.

Grant Services & Analysis also provides an interactive deadline calculator to determine when the proposal should be received by GS&A office (aka the 'school deadline' to be entered on the PAF).

  • MEMORANDUM

    Steven L. Kunkel, Ph.D.
    Interim Chief Scientific Officer, Michigan Medicine
    Interim Executive Vice Dean for Research, Medical School
    Senior Associate Dean for Research, Medical School

    DATE:          July 1, 2019

    SUBJECT:   Updated Grant Submission Deadline

     

    Recently, the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP) described a new policy regarding the submission of grant proposals to take effect January, 2020. The policy requires proposals arrive at ORSP, after approval by the Dean’s office and finalization in the eRPM system by the project team, no later than 15 business hours before the sponsor’s deadline to be guaranteed submission to the sponsor on time.

    At this opportunity, we have reviewed and updated the language from our 2006 policy to be more simply stated.

    We request all proposals be submitted to the Grant Services & Analysis Office ten (10) business days prior to the sponsor’s proposal deadline. 

    This is the same date that has been in place for approximately eight years, but rephrased to be inclusive of all the time required at ORSP for submission. The Grant Services & Analysis (GS&A) Deadline Calculator is available to help you determine the exact date for your submission.

    The GS&A staff will work with you to address any compliance or resource issues that may arise. Meeting the requested timetable will give staff sufficient time to review your proposal and enough time for delivery to ORSP by their deadline date, regardless of proposal type. All faculty and departments are expected to meet the Medical School deadline.

    We will continue to review all proposals, regardless of when received. These proposals will be processed in the order received, and reviewed as quickly as possible based on staff availability. Proposals received in less than the 10 business day time period may be less likely to meet the ORSP deadline for submission and may cause the project to be considered “at risk” under ORSP policy.

    Our goal remains to ensure that every opportunity is available for faculty to complete the scientific portion of their grant application. We will continue to review and approve based on the "administrative shell" of the proposal in our office. The Medical School’s administrative shell includes all the sponsor’s form pages, as well as pages which require documentation of institutional commitments such as financial support, effort, or space on behalf of the principal investigator or co-investigators.

Topic: Pre-Award
Questions?

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A list of Grant Services & Analysis staff is available in the Personnel Directory.

Edited By: mhayward@umich.edu
Last Updated: July 3, 2019 11:00 AM