eRA Commons & eSubmission Items of Interest
Follow-on items to Dec. 5 Item of Interest
- I've received a number of calls and emails from folks that are taking advantage of the special submission considerations extended to PD/PIs that are also appointed members of NIH Study Sections (NOT-OD-08-026). Their PureEdge submissions are resulting in the following fatal error from Grants.gov:
"The Closing Date of the grant opportunity for which you have applied has already passed and the grantor agency is no longer accepting applications."
Although the "grant opportunity" itself (e.g., PA-07-070) may still be open, the PureEdge package attached to the opportunity has closed as a result of this transition. All applications to transitioned FOAs now must use Adobe application packages.
We have done our best to minimize the transition impact on applicants. NIH literally receives electronic applications every day. Realistically, we can only plan around our published submission dates. The need for some applicants to move their application information from the old PureEdge forms into the new Adobe forms is unavoidable.
Now that we have a proven, automated process for moving a set of FOAs from PureEdge to Adobe, we will be able to provide more specific timing information in advance of the transition of the remaining active FOAs still using PureEdge. We hope this additional communication will result in even fewer applicants needing to re-enter their application data.
- I've also received some reports of server failures when trying to download the new packages. That issue appears to have cleared. The Grants.gov's Contact Center is your best bet when you have trouble downloading FOAs from their site.
- One more item worth passing on.an applicant asked "If I open the package with Adobe 9, but then use adobe 8 (both compatible) on a different computer, will there be a problem?" I asked Grants.gov this very same question and I was assured that as long as everyone that touches the application is using a compatible version there should be no issue.
That's all for now.
Sheri
This page last reviewed: March 5, 2009
