Grants Module (Proposal And Award)

Grants Compliance Review Page Overview

  • Contains questions related to regulatory, institutional, and Sponsor compliance requirements.

  • Completed by the Principle Investigator (PI) and reviewed by the Department & Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP).

  • Compliance Page Actions:

    • Ancillary Review (Proposal or Award)

    • Award Deliverable (Award)

    • Reports provided to the compliance department.

  • The Compliance Review Page responses are carried over to the Award automatically.

Grants Ancillary Review (AR) Process

  • Ensure compliance requirements are met.

  • A manual ancillary review can be added by anyone with edit access to the submission.

  • An open or unapproved ancillary review does not stop submission to the Sponsor, but departmental/college business processes can.

  • Open reviews are revisited if the Proposal is awarded.

Grants Ancillary Review

Automatic Reviews:

  • Triggered by select questions on the Proposal Compliance Review page. (e.g., data management, IBC, Radiation, EH&S).

  • Only available during the Draft state of a Proposal

  • Automated reviews are sent immediately to the compliance offices for review and approval. As soon as the item is checked.

Manual Reviews:

  • Initiated by OSP, PI, department/college, or compliance department as needed, especially when approval is required to address compliance matters.

  • All Ancillary reviews during the Award stage are manual.

Grants Module Ancillary Reviews (AR) Standard Operating Procedures

  • An open or unapproved ancillary review does not stop the proposal submission to the Sponsor.

  • Reviews with REQUIRED selected do not stop the submission workflow. (this occurs only in Agreements)

  • OSP will submit proposals to the Sponsor regardless of AR status.

  • Department/college business processes can stop a proposal from submission.

  • Open reviews are revisited if the Proposal is awarded and must be completed before the budget is released (in most cases).

Guidance For Compliance Offices

  • Proposal Phase – If sufficient time is not provided to complete the review, state this in the comments.  The Department Reviewers, OSP and others can easily see the status. 

  • WVU has a 30% award rate for proposals. Use your judgment if sufficient time was not provided. Budgets can be adjusted at Award.

  • Award Phase  – SLAs of 3-5 business days will be important during this phase as, in most cases, the budget cannot be released until the AR is complete.​

  • Agreements – SLAs of 3-5 business days are important during the negotiation phase to ensure contracts are signed in a timely manner.

Grants - Award Deliverables

  • Provide a way to add and track a required action for an Award.

  • The action is either required by the Sponsor, a regulation, or an institutional policy.

  • Added by OSP AIM during award initiation and setup.

  • Reminders sent to required parties listed on the Deliverable.