What is NIHs role once the applications are submitted to Grants.gov?
NIH will retrieve applications from Grants.gov in a system-to-system mode. NIH then will check the application to ensure that all agency-specific guidelines have been followed. If the application has errors that make it unacceptable, NIH will send a message to the applicant to check eRA Commons for errors. The applicant then will have the opportunity to correct the application and submit the entire application again via Grants.gov. If there are no errors, NIH will notify the Principal Investigator and Signing Official (SO) to go to eRA Commons to check the assembled application. The SO will have the option to “reject” the application if the assembled application does not correctly reflect their submission due to system issues. If no action is taken, the application will move to the referral process after two full business days.
