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Pre-Award Online Submission Help

To enhance pre-award research administration, the Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP) created the OSP Helpdesk as a central point of service to get assistance with pre-award submissions. As a technical resource, in addition to Pod staff support, the OSP pre-award team is able to provide guidance with online proposal submissions in key areas:

  • Sponsor- specific requirements within the funding announcement/program solicitation.
  • Online registration for sponsor portals when required.
  • Clarification about myResearch funding proposals required for internal routing and approval (pre-proposals, supplements, etc.).

Please contact the Pre-Award Specialist through the OSP Helpdesk by selecting "Pre-Award" as the "Type of question" for questions related to pre-award activities. Our goal is to reply within 1 business day.