ORA Restricts Accelerated Review

The Office of Research Administration (ORA) regrets that we can no longer accommodate requests for accelerated review of proposals that arrive at the ORA less than three full business days prior to the sponsor due date. Proposals received by ORA later than three full business days prior to the sponsor due date will no longer be reviewed by ORA for submission prior to the due date.

Effective for all proposals due on or after June 1, 2003, the administrative portions of grant or contract proposals, supplements and amendments, including electronic proposals*, must be received by the Office of Research Administration (ORA) not less than three full business days prior to the sponsor due date. We have experienced a continual expansion of the number of late proposals seeking exception to our internal deadline and can no longer make any exceptions.

For example, if your proposal is due June 1st, which falls on a Sunday, it will be considered due on June 2nd. Therefore, proposals with a June 1st deadline must be received by ORA by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 27th.

*For any electronic proposal requiring an ORA official to electronically submit or authorize the full, final proposal (e.g., Department of Defense, National Science Foundation), investigators must have all portions of the electronic application -- including the final scientific narrative -- complete and uploaded to the sponsor's server at the same time the routed paper copy is submitted to ORA. Therefore, both the routed paper copy and full electronic proposal must be available to ORA at least three full business days before the sponsor's deadline to permit timely ORA review and submission of the final application. Finally, either the PI (or someone provided access to the electronic proposal by the PI) must be available during the 3-day ORA review period in case changes must be made prior to approval/submission.

Please check your deadlines and plan accordingly. Thank you for your cooperation.

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