For competition details, please view our online limited submission portal (InfoReady): https://msstate.infoready4.com/#
External funding agencies often limit the number of proposal submissions that a university may submit. This information is always provided in the agency announcement. The following process will be used to determine which proposal(s) may be submitted to any limited submission call for proposals:
- Limited submission opportunities identified by ORED are circulated to the Associate Deans for Research, with details about the pre-proposal application and screening process, however, it is the responsibility of the MSU employee (faculty, researcher, center director, etc.) to notify ORD if they identify a proposal announcement that has a limit on the number of proposals that can be submitted. In this case, at the time of notification, ORD will undertake a series of assessments to determine whether to disseminate the opportunity via the standard channels to the broad university community (examples of measures include time until the deadline, proposal complexity, history of applications, etc) or will administer an ORED approval number for that individual to move forward with a full application.
- If the opportunity is pushed out broadly and multiple pre-proposals are received, ORD will convene a panel of faculty and administrators to review the pre-proposals to determine which proposal has the best opportunity for funding.
- Once a decision is made, the principal investigator (PI) of the pre-proposal is notified that they will represent MSU for the submission and an ORED approval number is provided.
- The ORED approval number must be provided to the Office of Sponsored Projects for the proposal to be submitted to the funding agency
- A PI of a pre-proposal that has been approved to represent the university should notify ORD if for some reason they decide not to submit a proposal for the limited submission. This will allow ORD to notify the next highest-scoring preproposal applicant to submit on behalf of MSU.
For additional information, please contact: Kristen Sendelweck @ development@ord.msstate.edu