Intent to Submit a Proposal- OSP Notification Requirements
Effective December 1, 2022, OSP will require 10 business days for review and approval of all proposal submissions. This timeline provides at minimum five (5) business days to assist in creating the internal business-related elements and five (5) business days for internal routing and approvals.
Proposals with subrecipients or cost share require 15 business days to gather documentation from outside entities, review, and approval. Subrecipients may have their own internal deadlines, if we cannot get documentation from the subrecipient within the OSP required timeline, the proposal will be considered late.
Due to capacity constraints, any notification of proposals not meeting the required internal timeline will not be submitted. If applicable, the proposal will be added to the queue and submitted during the next cycle.
NEW - Awards Packet
To help PIs better understand their responsibilities, the Awards Team has developed an awards packet. The awards packet is intended to outline and highlight specific aspects of the award, including the form of the payment, OSP contacts, important terms and conditions, and compliance requirements.
Each sponsored project award comes with a unique set of terms and conditions, which may range from entirely flexible to quite restrictive. The OSP Awards Team is responsible for reviewing the award documents and negotiating the terms and conditions attached to an award as needed. The goals in negotiation are to protect the project and principal investigator's (PI) publication and intellectual property rights; to protect the institution against harmful or unmanageable stipulations; and to ensure the terms and conditions of the agreement are consistent with state and federal regulations as well as university requirements.
Once an award has been finalized and signed by the university, there are many award-specific duties for which the PI is responsible. These include:
- submitting scientific or programmatic reports
- properly acknowledging the sponsor and funding source in publications
- maintaining training credentials and certifications
- reporting issues of non-compliance and
- monitoring the performance of any subrecipients and contractors on the award.
To help PIs better understand their responsibilities, the Awards Team has developed an awards packet. The awards packet is intended to outline and highlight specific aspects of the award, including the form of the payment, OSP contacts, important terms and conditions, and compliance requirements. Compliance sections will include obligations, resource links, and page numbers of the outlined section within the attached award document. This will allow the PIs to navigate the award document and read the applicable required sections. Beginning October 1, 2022, OSP will issue awards packets on new awards or heavily amended awards.
While the award packet is intended to provide an overview of the important award details, PIs should still review the entire award agreement or award document. PIs must sign their award packet prior to UNO’s institutional signature to acknowledge that they understand their responsibilities as directors of the sponsored project award. The signed awards packet will be uploaded into MavGrants for the project team to download and review throughout the lifecycle of the project as a reference.
The awards packet will also help to streamline the award agreement execution process by eliminating multiple emails, phone calls, and spread-out resources. We are excited to provide more readily information for the PI’s and project staff in support of sponsored project management.
If you have any specific questions, please email the Awards Team at unoawards@unomaha.edu.