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Pre-Awards Office Updates Doris W. Nyaga November 6, 2012. Fort Valley State University Office of Sponsored Programs. Funding Opportunity Dissemination . Group / Mailing lists Customized prospect research NSF agency email updates. Proposal Submission Process. Pre-Awards Process
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Pre-Awards Office UpdatesDoris W. NyagaNovember 6, 2012 Fort Valley State University Office of Sponsored Programs
Funding Opportunity Dissemination • Group / Mailing lists • Customized prospect research • NSF agency email updates
Proposal Submission Process • Pre-Awards Process • Proposal submission policy • NSF fastlane registration
Pre-Awards Review • University Compliance • Human or Animal Subjects Committees (HSC and ASC) • Departmental/College Approval (Capacity/ capability, release time, shared instrumentation) • Labor and financial appropriation for labor • Budget compliance – Direct and indirect cost.
Pre-Awards Review • NSF Compliance • Chapter II.C.2.a - Cover Sheet - revised for consistency with the requirements of the Federal Funding & Accountability Act • Chapter II.C.2.j - Special Information and Supplementary Documentation - All proposals must describe plans for data management and sharing of the products of research, or assert the absence of the need for such plans
Pre-Awards Review • Chapter II.C.2.g(xi) – Cost Sharing - Revised to implement the National Science Board’s recommendations regarding cost sharing. Inclusion of voluntary committed cost sharing is prohibited. Awardees remain subject to the OMB A-21 Clarification memo regarding committing and tracking faculty effort .
Pre-Awards Review • Chapter II.C.2 - Sections of the Proposal • Chapter II.C.2.b - Project Summary • Chapter II.C.2.j - Special Information and Supplementary Documentation (post doctoral researchers listed as senior personnel)
Pre-Awards Review • Chapter II.D.4.b - Collaborative Proposals • Chapter III.C - Proposal File Updates Module - not valid for revised budgets - UseRevised Proposal Budget Module
Pre-Awards Review • Scope of Work – NSF does not support • Technical assistance, pilot plant efforts, research requiring security classification, the development of products for commercial marketing, or market research for a particular project or invention. • Research with disease-related goals - including work on the etiology, diagnosis or treatment of physical or mental disease, abnormality, or malfunction in human beings or animals. (models, development or testing of drugs)
Pre-Awards Review • Scope of Work – NSF Supports research in bioengineeringwith diagnosis- or treatment-related goals, that applies engineering principles to problems in biology and medicine while advancing engineering knowledge. Bioengineering research to aid persons with disabilities is also eligible.
NSF Merit Review Process • Effective January 13, 2013.
Questions Doris Nyaga Pre-Awards Coordinator (478) 822 – 1063nyagad@fvsu.edu