Anyone who has access to a proposal can submit a Pre-Award Spending Request to request early funding. Usually, these requests are submitted by an investigator or unit administrator who has proposal data access in the unit.
Proposal Eligibility
In order to submit a Pre-Award Spending Request, the proposal must be in one of the following statuses:
- PS Review
- Proposal Approved
- JIT Request Received
- JIT Request Approved
- Submitted to Sponsor
- Under Award Negotiation
- Pending Award
- Funded/Preliminary
- Funded
Submitting a Pre-Award Spending Request
- Click on My Dashboard, then click on either My Proposals or Proposals In My Unit.
- Click on the Pre-Award Spending tab, and click Add Pre-Award Spending Request to Proposal.
- A new dialogue window will appear. Once you are finished willing out the information, click Submit Pre-Award Spending Request for Processing.
Pre-Award Spending Fields
- Description of Assurances: Enter any documentation you have received from the sponsor that describes a guarantee of funding. This may be a telephone conversation, email, or other document that is copied and pasted into the text box.
- Is this account associated with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009? (ARRA): as indicated in the FOA.
- Type of Account: Specify whether the preliminary funds will be distributed into a single account (new account) or multiple accounts (new account with multiple subaccounts).
- Contact Information: The Project Contact is the Research Assistant or unit administrator who will serve as the primary contact for Accounting. Both Contact Telephone and Contact Email are required fields.