Grants.gov Planned Downtime 9/23-9/29
Dear Colleagues,
Grants.gov announced a planned system outage of grants.gov beginning September 23rd through September 29th. The grants.gov system will be unavailable during this period. Please see What to Expect During the Grants.gov Cloud Migration and Extended Downtime for September 2022 for more information.
Per NOT-OD-22-190, all NIH and AHRQ deadlines during this period will move to October 3rd. We anticipate a higher volume of submissions due October 3rd that may impact proposal review times in the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP). We highly recommend submitting proposals to our office as early as possible, but no later than five business days ahead of the deadline for all proposals due October 3rd through October 5th. ASSIST applications can still be initiated & prepared by UIC units and reviewed by OSP during the grants.gov outage (with submission occurring on 10/3 when grants.gov is back online).
Please keep in mind “the two-day application viewing window in eRA Commons will continue to function as normal for applications successfully submitted through grants.gov. Applicants are reminded to reject their application in eRA Commons, if a corrective submission is planned prior to the October 3 due date. Otherwise, it may be necessary to officially withdraw Your Application to submit a changed/corrected application prior to the due date.” Please see the email attached for more information on changed/corrected applications & additional advice from NIH/AHRQ for the grants.gov downtime.
For other federal agency deadlines during the planned system downtime, please contact the grants office listed on the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) or reach out to your assigned proposal reviewer in OSP.
If you have any questions or concerns about upcoming submissions, please contact your assigned proposal reviewer or reach out to me at kristens@uic.edu.
Kristen Scheurich, CRA
Assistant Director, Proposals
Office of Sponsored Programs
University of Illinois Chicago
1737 West Polk Street, MC 672
Chicago, Illinois 60612
(312) 996-6056
kristens@uic.edu