When I submitted my proposal to the NSF, I received the following email in return: "The cumulative totals for all budget periods: $(x) does not equal the cumulative totals: $(y) Submitted for field: Section F, Other Direct Costs"
This email is sent to you due to a validation error in Fastlane. In Fastlane, if a proposal is submitted with any "skipped" user-defined Costs in Section F (specifically, field 8 or 9), then the agency system does not properly validate the cost data in the adjacent fields. We have learned a work-around within Cayuse Proposals which will allow you to properly resubmit.
If you return to the proposal in question within Cayuse Proposals, and refer to page 3 of the RR Budget, you will need to look at the data in Section F for each budget period. If you see any instances in which rows 8 or 9 of that section were skipped in order to fill data in the following row, then you will need to move the data in the following rows up one row. So if you have data in rows 9 and 10 but none in row 8, you will need to move the data from row 9 into row 8, and then from row 10 into row 9.
This will still calculate correctly in Cayuse Proposals, and will allow the NSF systems to properly validate the budget.