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Hi All - <br>
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We had a learning experience yesterday. An NSF proposal on which we
were a collaborator did not even make it out of administrative
review and was declined because the overall budget exceeded the
limit listed in the call. You may be saying "Duh...", and it makes
complete sense. I mention it only because we didn't pay close
enough attention to that aspect of the call since <i>we </i><i>were
not expecting a hard limit to be given</i>. We have seen
statements in the calls such as "we have 15 million dollars and
expect to make 8 awards"; however, we have never seen a strict
dollar limit given by NSF before. Maybe you have, and this is old
news, but I just thought I'd mention it. While it is the lead's
responsibility to monitor this, we are kicking ourselves a bit that
we didn't read the call more closely and raise a red flag earlier.
However, we can't remember if the lead's budget and other
collaborator budgets were entered early enough for us to even
question the total bottom line.<br>
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Anyway, just another bit of info to tuck away.<br>
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Best Regards,<br>
Sheila<br>
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