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Dear All - <br>
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Sorry if you have already seen this, or if it isn't relevant to
you. Just thought I would pass it along.<br>
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Best Regards,<br>
Sheila<br>
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<td>Take Note: Important New Automated Proposal Submission
Compliance Checks Coming to FastLane on July 25</td>
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<td>Mon, 18 Jul 2016 14:37:31 +0000</td>
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<td>NSF Business Applications
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<td>NSF eBusiness Outreach
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">You are
receiving this email because you have been identified as
having an in-progress proposal in FastLane.
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NSF continues to focus on the automated compliance checks of
proposals in order to decrease the burden on both the research
community and NSF staff. Effective July 25, 2016, all
proposals will be subject to a new series of automated
compliance validation checks to ensure proposals comply with
requirements outlined in Chapter II.C.2. of the <i>
Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide </i>(PAPPG).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>The new set of automated compliance
checks will trigger error messages for each of the following
rules:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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and Current and Pending Support files are required for each
Senior Personnel associated with a proposal; and
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can only be uploaded as a file, must not exceed two pages and
can no longer be entered as text.
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<b>Note About Proposal File Update (PFU):</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
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Proposers should be aware should that if a proposal was
received prior to July 25 and contained only one Biographical
Sketch
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">and/</span>or Current &
Pending Support file (rather than individual files for each
senior personnel), a PFU addressing any section of the
proposal will result in the proposal not being accepted if it
does not comply with these new compliance checks. The checks
will be run on all sections of the proposal regardless of
which section was updated during the PFU.
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<b>Note About Grants.gov:</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
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Proposers should also be aware that Grants.gov will allow a
proposal to be submitted, even if it does not comply with
these proposal preparation requirements. Should NSF receive a
proposal from Grants.gov that is not compliant, it will be
returned without review.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">Please note that
the new set of compliance checks
<b>are in addition to</b> the compliance checks that currently
exist in FastLane. You can view a complete list of FastLane
auto-compliance checks,
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">including these checks</span>,
by clicking <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/autocheck/compliancechecks_july16.pdf">here</a>
. The list specifies which checks are run depending on funding
opportunity type (GPG, Program Description, Program
Announcement, or Program Solicitation) and type of proposal
(Research, RAPID, EAGER, Ideas Lab, Conference, Equipment,
International Travel, Facility/Center, or Fellowship). It also
specifies whether the check triggers a “warning” or “error”
message for non-compliant proposals.
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