NIH Electronic Grant Applications submissions

NIH Electronic Grant Applications submissions

NIH has reduced the “error correction window” (i.e., the time allowed after the submission deadline to address NIH system-identified errors/warnings) from 5 to 2 business days for all electronically submitted grant applications with submission deadlines on or after January 8, 2008. This change means that electronic applications will be considered “on-time” if all the following criteria are met:

All required registrations must be complete prior to the initial submission.
Initial successful submission to Grants.gov must have a timestamp on/before 5:00 p.m. local time of the applicant organization on the receipt date.
Applicants must correct errors and/or warnings within the 2 business days following the receipt date (referred to as the "error correction window").
All application corrections must be in response to a system-identified error/warning (application submissions with additional changes may be refused).
If final submission is sent after the receipt date, a cover letter attachment must be included identifying the system-identified errors/warnings that have been corrected.

The error correction window allows Principal Investigators to address errors and warnings generated once the grant was in their system. It does NOT allow the Principal Investigators to correct typos and/or continue editing the proposal after the grant was submitted.

For further details please read the notice on the NIH website at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-018.html.

Source: NIH Notice number: NOT-OD-08-018, released November 30, 2007.