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Grants.gov Information on Federal Grant Submissions

	For the past couple of years the federal government has been moving it's grant submission process over to electronic-based from a paper-based system. This has been due to federal directives. At this time ALL grant submissions for Federal grants (i.e. NIH and NSF) must be submitted electronically. This page will endeavor to keep up-to-date information and links to what Grants.gov requires to comply with their submission policies.
	The biggest obstacle to this transition has been how to do the submissions. The first solution developed by Grants.gov was the PureEdge Workforms. This was OK but did not meet a central requirement of the software developement contract, it must be computer platform neutral (forms should be able to be completed on ANY computer regardless of the operating system being run). PureEdge workforms only worked on computers running Microsoft Windows. Due to the time and money invested this solution was put into use as they looked for a solution that would also comply with this last requirement. Solutions to allow submitters on non-MS Windows computers were developed by others while a more permanent solution was sought out.
	They finally found a solution in Adobe's Acrobat software. Using the forms capabilites they have been able to develop a usable submission form and process which is truely platform neutral. The various federal agencies are now converting their PureEdge forms over to PDF forms. This may take some time though so keep an eye on what forms are available for your funding opportunity. As of January 1, 2009 NIH had sucessfully transitioned to the PDF forms. NSF completed conversion to PDF forms on March 1, 2009. UPDATE, As of now ALL NIH grant submissions MUST be submitted electronically using the PDF forms (except for a select few programs). You can use either Acrobat Reader/Pro versions 8.1.6 or 9.2 to complete and save for submission your funding opportunity forms.
	Note that the above test files are just examples and that any entries made into fields within the forms will not be saved.