Frequently Asked Questions about Limited Submissions
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A “ticket” is the terminology RDS and Sponsored Projects & Contracting Services use to designate an approved institutional submission for a limited submission opportunity. The “ticket” will be sent to the approved PI/Team via email from Resdev@email.arizona.edu.
An “Upcoming” limited submission is currently accepting pre-proposals through a campus-wide competition with an established internal deadline. An “Open” limited submission means that the internal deadline has passed without any pre-proposals submitted for review: thus, the first expression of interest that RDS receives will be accepted as the institutional submission. A “Completed” limited submission means that the external deadline has passed, and no further proposals are accepted by the funder. “Completed” limited submissions on the Limited Submission Table record the names of the UA institutional selections that received the ticket to submit to the opportunity.
RDS publishes the name of the PI selected for each Limited Submission opportunity on the Limited Submission Table on the Research Gateway.
Visit the Limited Submissions page on the UA Research Gateway to download guidelines and for a complete and searchable table of all upcoming, open, and completed Limited Submissions.
The RDS Limited Submissions Table page on the UA Research Gateway or Arizona Cultivate are regularly updated with all current funding opportunities, deadlines and updates.
The applicant must first appoint a proxy from their account. The applicant will need to login to establish the account, and then indicate that a proxy will submit. Visit UA Arizona Cultivate for more details.
Many large and/or complex proposals require significant preparation time for development and coordination. To provide the submitting PI or team the maximum amount of time to focus on the external application, internal Limited Submission contests are run well in advance of the external deadline.
While every effort is made to adhere to our preferred Limited Submissions timeline, there are instances when the interval between becoming aware of a limited submission and the sponsor’s deadline makes it impractical to follow our process. In those cases, broad announcements may not be made, expedited reviews with limited or no feedback comments may be performed, and/or submission slots may be awarded on a first-identified basis. Generally, if there are less than six weeks between the identification of the opportunity and the sponsor’s deadline, a competition will not be run, and the competition will be listed as Open or submission permission will be awarded on a first-identified basis.
The pre-proposal requirements are designed to give a sufficient representation of a prospective project or proposal without over-burdening faculty/applicants. Think of the pre-proposal as an “elevator pitch.”
No. RDS does not publicly identify the members of the internal funding review panels or the specific members assigned to individual proposals or ad hoc reviewers.