To authorize or reject a Pre-Award Spending Request, you will need to have Pre-Award Spending Approver permissions for your unit. Contact your administration for questions regarding these permissions.
Authorizing or Rejecting a Pre-Award Spending request
- From your dashboard, click on Pre-Award Spending Inbox in the left-hand menu.
- Beneath the To Be Authorized tab, you will see a list of any Pre-Award Spending Requests within your unit that still need approving. On the right-hand side of the request, click Manage. A dialogue window will appear.
- Review a PDF of the Pre-Award Spending Request by clicking View / Print Pre-Award Spending Request.
- Return to the dialogue window. From the Status drop-down menu, select either Authorized or Rejected. You can add a note to indicate why you are rejecting the request if you select Rejected.
- Click
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The window will close and the request will move to the Previously Reviewed tab, where you can see the decision and track the status of the request.
If you reject the request, the submitter and the unit approver will be notified by email of the rejection. If you wrote a note, the email will include the note within the body.