What is a TIMELY NIH Proposal?
Since submission of NIH proposals via Grants.Gov is a 2-step process, i.e., the proposal is submitted to Grants.Gov, which then “hands off” the proposal to NIH eRA Commons, what constitutes “meeting the deadline?” The short answer is that the “Receipt Time” for the application is assigned by Grants.Gov when it receives the proposal….BUT, if flaws in the application are detected during the “NIH Business Rules Review” in NIH eRA Commons, and the application must be corrected or revised, a NEW “Receipt Time” is assigned upon submission of the corrected/revised proposal. In short, the “Receipt Time” associated with the FIRST ERROR-FREE version of the proposal. So you ask “If my initial submission to Grants.Gov is at 4PM on the deadline date, but it takes NIH eRA Commons a day or two to notify me about errors, would my proposal still be considered “Timely” if the correction and resubmission were made two days AFTER the deadline?” NIH is very clear on this issue: If errors found during the
