eSubmission News and Updates
NIH eSubmission Items of Interest — June 29, 2007
Grants.gov Extends Transition Time for Agencies
Although originally targeting the end of FY2007 to have all agencies transitioned to the new Adobe-based forms, Grants.gov has extended the time provided to agencies to fully transition to the new format into 2008. This is great news for both agencies and applicants. The additional time allows Grants.gov to complete their development and testing of the new forms and provides agencies with greater flexibility in how they approach the transition. Our shared goal is the smoothest transition possible for our applicants.
NIH’s transition to the Adobe forms remains on hold while we wait for Grants.gov to finalize the SF424 (R&R) form set. We do not expect to be positioned to post new application packages with the Adobe-based forms this summer. So, just keep using the current Grants.gov forms until you hear otherwise from us. We’ll continue to keep you posted on our progress through our electronic submission listservs. Once our transition plans are finalized, formal announcements also will be posted in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts and in the NIH Extramural Nexus.
eRA Service Outage - Sunday, July 1
The NIH Data Center experienced a power outage the evening of Thursday, June 28, affecting all services. We are scheduling downtime on Sunday, July 1, beginning at 6:00 a.m. Eastern Time and continuing for up to three hours to address residual issues arising from the outage. We apologize for any inconvenience, but want to ensure all systems are running at 100% going into next week’s R01 submission date.
eSubmission Application Viewing Window & Federal Holidays
As noted in a previous Item of Interest, NIH has reevaluated its policy of including Federal holidays in the two weekday window provided to applicants to view their assembled application prior to it moving forward for review and funding consideration. Effective immediately (thus including July 4, 2007), Federal holidays will be excluded from the two weekday application viewing window. See NIH/AHRQ/NIOSH Announce Change in Electronic Submission Process – Federal Holidays Excluded from Application Viewing Window for additional information.
Have a fun and safe July 4th holiday!
Sheri Cummins
Communications
Coordinator
NIH Electronic Submission of Grant Applications
Contractor, LTS
