In accordance with VPR Policy on Late Submission of Proposals, complete and final proposals must be submitted to RAS five business days in advance of the sponsor deadline date. (Calculate the RAS due date.)
Other approvals are required before and sometimes after a proposal is submitted to RAS. After the proposal is certified, monitor its approval status to ensure it arrives at RAS before the due date.
Order of Certification and Routing of Proposals
- Principal Investigator, Co-investigators and, in some cases, Key Personnel complete certification process via link in KC.
- DLCI Approver for proposal's lead unit reviews and approves proposal.
- Additional DLCI approvers are automatically added based on key personnel. The aggregator for the proposal may remove additional approvers.
- Proposal may be routed for additional approvals as required by the Office of the Vice President for Research, Office of the Provost, or Dean's Office for units or schools reporting to them.
- RAS conducts proposal review and provides any necessary signature by MIT authorizing official. (Calculate when the proposal is due in RAS.)
- Submission to sponsor: If the proposal requires an institutional official from RAS to submit in a sponsor portal (Proposal Submission Methods), RAS will complete the submission. Otherwise, the preparing DLCI will submit. Some of the portals that require RAS to submit directly are:
- If you have questions regarding the status of submission, contact your RAS CA.
Acceptance of a resulting award is subject to the ability to negotiate acceptable terms and being compliant with MIT internal policies and procedures.
See Roles and Responsibilities for more detail about each role.