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Grants.gov, one of 24 President’s Management Agenda E-Government Initiatives, is the “one-stop shop” for locating funding opportunities and applying for grants from 26 Federal agencies. From this one consolidated website, researchers can search for grant opportunities, sign up for automatic email notifications of grant opportunities and apply for Federal grants. Though the opportunities currently listed on Grants.gov are from Federal sponsors, Grants.gov is also working on incorporating find and apply opportunities for several large non-Federal sponsors.
Currently, funding applications are submitted to Grants.gov using PureEdge forms, a format developed by Grants.gov.
Note: Development and implementation of this functionality is currently on hold until the EFS project work has been completed.
The Application System-to-System (AS2S) Integration is a new initiative of Grants.gov in which applicant organizations will be able to locate funding opportunities and submit proposals directly from the applicant’s system to Grants.gov electronically via an interface between the two systems using XML files instead of the PureEdge forms. The XML application file (and attachments) will be sent electronically from the applicant’s system to Grants.gov, and then routed electronically from Grants.gov to the Federal sponsoring agency.
What is the Bridge?
Note: Development and implementation of this functionality is currently on hold until the EFS project work has been completed.
EGMS will assist Users during the roll out of Grants.gov. System-to-system functionality will soon be available in EGMS Proposal Prep, but until then a “bridge” system will be in place. What that means to Users is that they will continue to go to Proposal Prep and complete their proposals in the same fashion they do now.
In the Bridge transition, EGMS will help the Users by offering individually generated PDF copies of attachments they will need as they pull together their Pure Edge forms. EGMS also goes a step further by offering individually rendered PDF copies of R&R 424 forms that the User can use as a guide, much like NSF Users access EGMS forms as models to completing their online forms.
During the Bridge transition, Grants.gov proposals (i.e., “424 R&R Family” form style proposals) will be subject to the same Proposal Prep audits that are currently run against “398 Kit” form style proposals. The few new data fields added to capture all the elements of the new form style will not fall under the current audit checks, and will be reviewed by grant administrators at time of submission.
This Bridge functionality will continue to be available to Users after EGMS handles most proposals by system-to-system transmission, much like a drawbridge. There will be a small subset of proposals that still must use the Pure Edge functionality of Grants.gov because of unique characteristics; EGMS can still assist those Users too.
The EGMS Bridge will offer valuable assistance to Users in ways that just completing the Pure Edge forms with Word and Excel packages could never do:
- EGMS will do all of the complex budget calculations for the User. Pure Edge is only a vessel for data; it can't handle calculations of multiple fringe benefits or indirect cost calculations.
- In EGMS, Users can clone proposals for use multiple times. Pure Edge forms cannot be reused.
- With EGMS, multiple people can work on a proposal at the same time. Pure Edge is only available for entry by one person at a time.
- EGMS will create individual PDF attachments for Users to upload into Pure Edge.
- EGMS will generate PDF versions of 424 R&R forms (populated with User entered data) to use as guides while working in Pure Edge.
- With EGMS, Users can create their proposals online, and access them via the internet at any time or place that’s convenient for them. Pure Edge forms cannot be accessed via the internet – they sit on a User’s desktop.
- Users can cut and paste from EGMS-generated PDFs into Pure Edge form fields.
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