Limited Submission Proposals Procedure

Introduction

Increasingly, granting agencies, especially NSF and NIH, are turning to limited submission as a means of restricting the number of proposals that may be submitted by a university in response to a given program announcement. In instances when more investigators wish to submit proposals than the agency limit allows, the Office of Research and Graduate Studies has developed procedures designed to select the most competitive proposals as fairly and objectively as possible and to do this expeditiously in order to give investigators the maximum opportunity to prepare their proposal.

Procedures When the Number of Submissions Per Institution Is Limited

When Proposal Preparation Services determines that a program announcement involves a limit on the number of institutional submissions an announcement is sent out to all faculty, researchers, deans and center directors under the name of one of the associate vice provosts for research and graduate studies (AVP), along with the URL from which the full program announcement can be obtained. This announcement requests pre-proposals of about three pages along with CVs and information about present funding. A deadline for receipt of pre-proposals is set, after which the evaluation group is selected, if needed.

For a complete listing of procedures, please review the policy, "Institutional Endorsement of Proposals when Submissions are Limited by External Funding Agency" located in the KU policy library.