Service Providers
A Service Provider is a commercial company that assists applicants, for a fee, in submitting grant applications electronically to NIH and other federal agencies. Service Providers offer a wide range of platform independent services—from low-cost, single transaction options through full scale, end-to-end grants management solutions.
Why consider choosing a Service Provider?
Here are some advantages they offer [benefits vary among Service Providers]:
- All are platform independent and work with Macintosh, Linux, Unix, etc.
- Choice of an entire grants administration system or individual submissions of applications, depending on your needs and budget.
- The ability to print and view a generated PDF version of the entire application prior to submission.
- The ability to check applications against NIH and Grants.gov validations before submission, so applicants do not need to deal with error corrections after the fact.
- Some integrate their system with other institutional systems (i.e. Human Resources, Administration etc.) to allow data such as actual salaries to be pulled into the application.
- Some convert text documents to PDF for the applicant.
- Some allow a single document to be uploaded for the research plan and then they will split the document into all the required attachments and convert to PDFs.
- Most offer Institutional routing, review and approval with multiple levels of authority prior to the submission.
- Offer the ability for an Authorized Organizational Representative (AOR) to lock down all parts of the application except for the research plan so the Principal Investigator can tweak the Research Plan as needed.
- Most assist users by “auto filling” repeated fields such as Institutional profile.
- Most offer data storage that can help institutions in reporting.
- Most can handle a large number of submissions efficiently.
Service Providers Submitting via Grants.gov to NIH
For more up-to-date information on their readiness, please contact them directly.
Service Providers at a Glance
Name of Service Provider | Services for a single submission | Standalone software that is part of a larger suite of software systems | Software solution that integrates with existing IT systems | Assistance navigating the grants process | Help with registration | Proposal data entry | Internal routing and approval of application before submission | Check for compliance with agency business rules before submission | Ability to view and print application image before submission |
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Click Commerce |
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Coeus |
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GAMS |
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Heath Proposal.net |
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InfoEd |
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ML Weekes & Co., PC |
Provider Name | Company Website | Questionnaire Responses |
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Cayuse Inc. | www.cayuse.com | Product Questionnaire |
Click Commerce | Research.clickcommerce.com | Product Questionnaire |
Clinical Tools | www.healthproposal.net | Product Questionnaire |
Coeus Consortium | coeus.org | Product Questionnaire |
eRA Software Systems | www.gams.org | Product Questionnaire |
iMedris | www.imedris.com | Product Questionnaire |
InfoEd International | www.infoed.org | Product Questionnaire |
ML Weekes & Company, PC | www.ramsgrantsera.com | Product Questionnaire |
Note: NIH posed the same questions to the Service Providers on the services they offer. Their responses are detailed in the product questionnaires above.
Note: Organizations not listed above that have established a system-to-system interface with Grants.gov and plan to submit grant applications electronically can request to be listed on this site by contacting:
Sheri Cummins
Customer Relationship Manager
NIH Electronic Submission of Grant Applications
cumminss@mail.nih.gov