Proposal Routing and Submission FAQs

1. Why is routing necessary?
All sponsored project 建议s, awards, fellowships, and sub-contracts and contractual agreements linked to sponsored projects must be reviewed by 菠菜网lol正规平台’s authorized signers to ensure institutional eligibility, conformity to sponsor guidelines, accuracy of budget, applicability of cost sharing, compliance 批准s, etc. 对提案进行审查 to ensure that any commitments included are consistent with federal, state and university policies, as well as to ascertain 批准 of the 建议 by department chairs and 院长. It also serves to indemnify the faculty member should the agency dispute the quality or quantity of the award’s deliverable.

2. Does preliminary 建议 and letter of intent require routing?
If university resources (i.e. release time, cost-share, facilities usage) are being proposed, then the preliminary 建议 must be routed for 菠菜网lol正规平台’s authorized signers’ 批准.

3. Why does the routing process take at least seven days to complete?
There are at least seven signers for each submitted 建议. 每个签名者请求 at least 一个 working day in order to review a 建议. Each signer approves different 建议的范畴:

• 教师 Member (Principal Investigator) - acknowledges that they are committing to the work as written in the narrative and as specified in the budget; ensures that the project will comply with sponsor’s requirements.

• Department Chairs - acknowledge they can accommo日期 the faculty's proposed release and overload time, work load, teaching requests, curriculum impact, departmental resources, and financial 需求(我.e. 成本分享).

• Deans - acknowledge they can accommo日期 the faculty's proposed release and overload time work load/teaching requests, curriculum impact, college resources, and financial 需求(我.e. cost-share、空间). Because budget constraints or commitments fall directly to them and their colleges, the 院长 have to be vigilant about the potential impact of the 建议 on their colleges’ resources.

• 研究基金会 Personnel - the OSP manager of the 建议 and director of OSP of 菠菜网lol正规平台RF has to ensure that all funder guidelines are met and consistent with all rules and regulations since 菠菜网lol正规平台RF is the legal entity that is responsible for all the compliance requirements that are required by federal, state, local laws and 赞助商要求.

• VP for 政府 and Finance- ensures that all CSU regulations are followed, the financial obligations is sensible and are possible for 菠菜网lol正规平台, and ensures all facility 问题已解决(1).e. additional space, modification of facility).

• Chief Research Officer, who is the president's designee for 批准 of all 建议s that are being submitted by 菠菜网lol正规平台. The current designee is the AVP of Research - ensures that all rules and regulations are followed, including human and animal subjects. The AVP for Research also will not approve of the 建议 unless all of the above signers have approved the submission.

4. What documents are required 进行路由?
Final budget and justification, and a “close to final” scope of work are required 进行路由. 请 note that the AVP for Research requires all final documents for final review and submission three days prior to the sponsor’s man日期d submission 日期. Chairs and 院长 may also have specific routing requirements. 在某些情况下 院长 and chairs may require the full 建议 for the routing. 我们需要坚持下去 to their requirements if different from those of 菠菜网lol正规平台RF.

5. Why do I have to certify compliance issues on routing?
The certifying questions are there to ensure that the principal investigator is aware of various issues that may not be included in the 建议 narrative, but are presented 在项目中. If any of the compliance questions are answered “yes”, then additional actions or documentation maybe required prior to completing the routing process (i.e. cost share, IRB, IACUC).

6. Can I make changes to the 建议 once the routing process started?
The budget and justification must be finalized prior to routing. 小修复如下 as grammar, formatting, are permitted as long as overall scope of work does not change.

7. My 建议 is due in two days, and I haven’t started the 建议 process, will my 建议 be submitted?
When notifying your sponsored programs manager with less than 7-10 working days prior to the sponsor 的最后期限, your 建议 will be considered a RUSH 建议.

这 will affect the timeline significantly. Prior to proceeding with your 建议, you will need to talk with your chair and dean regarding the situation and your intent 提交.

While the 研究基金会 will do their best to work with you on the 建议 process, it is not guaranteed that the 建议 will be submitted by the sponsor’s 的最后期限. All factors of the timeline will need to be executed in just two days. 请 note that when entering a RUSH situation, your sponsored programs manager will need to put existing 建议s/projects on hold, in order to meet the 的最后期限 for your 建议. All 建议 documents and budgets will need to be provided to your sponsored programs manager no later than 12:00 p.m. on the day they are notified of the 建议. Documents received later than this time, are not guaranteed submission and 批准 提交.

It is recommended that you consider submitting during the next 建议 cycle. 这 will allow sufficient time to obtain required 批准s and will help to produce a higher quality 建议.