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NOFO Field: Submission Dates and Times

NOFO Location: Application and Submission Information - fourth field
- Preceding Field: Unique entity identifier and System for Award Management (SAM)
- Subsequent Field: Intergovernmental Review

OMB Guidance:
IV. Application and Submission Information
        3. Submission Dates and Times -- Required.
        Your announcement must identify due dates and times for all submissions. This includes not only the full applications but also any preliminary submissions (e.g., letters of intent, white papers, or pre-applications). It also includes any other submissions of information before award that are separate from the full application. If the funding opportunity is a general announcement that is open for a period of time with no specific due dates for applications, this section should say so. Note that the information on dates that is included in this section also must appear with other overview information in a location preceding the full text of the announcement (see ‘‘Overview Information’’ segment of this format).
        For each type of submission that you address, indicate whether the submission is encouraged or required and, if required, any deadline date for submission (or dates, if the agency plans more than one cycle of application submission, review, and award under the announcement). The announcement must state (or provide a reference to another document that states):
        - Any deadline in terms of a date and local time.
        - What the deadline means (e.g., whether it is the date and time by which the agency must receive the application, the date by which the application must be postmarked, or something else) and how that depends, if at all, on the submission method (e.g., mail, electronic, or personal/courier delivery).
        - The effect of missing a deadline (e.g., whether late applications are neither reviewed nor considered or are reviewed and considered under some circumstances).
        - How the receiving Federal office determines whether an application or pre-application has been submitted before the deadline. This includes the form of acceptable proof of mailing or system-generated documentation of receipt date and time.
        This section also may indicate whether, when, and in what form the applicant will receive an acknowledgment of receipt.
        You should consider displaying the above information in ways that will be easy to understand and use. It can be difficult to extract all needed information from narrative paragraphs, even when they are well written. A tabular form for providing a summary of the information may help applicants for some programs and give them what effectively could be a checklist to verify the completeness of their application package before submission. For example, a summary table might look like:
Note: Table not included.

Additional Guidance:

Do not enter the field name (shown in bold in the examples). The NOFO generator will enter the field name.

Submission Dates and Times is the third of 6 subsections under Application and Submission Information.

Make sure you enter the time zone for submission

Published Examples:

        C. Submission Dates and Times:

        The deadline for receipt of proposals is 4:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Savings Time, October 31, 2006. Applications submitted through Grants.gov APPLY will be accompanied by a date and time receipt indication on them. If an applicant does not have Internet access, hard copy proposals will be accepted and date and time stamped when they are received. Applications received after the deadline will not be reviewed.

        C. Submission Dates and Times:

        1. Submission Dates

        Preliminary proposals must be received by the National Sea Grant Office by 5 p.m. EDT on Thursday, September 14, 2006. Final proposals must be received by 5 p.m. EST on Tuesday, December 19, 2007. Submissions through grants.gov will have a date and time indicator on them. Hard copies will be date and time stamped upon receipt. Applications which are not received by the deadline will not be reviewed.

        2. Exceptions

        Hard copy applications arriving after the above deadlines will be accepted for review only if the applicant can document that the application was provided to a delivery service that guaranteed delivery prior to the specified closing date and time and as long as the applications are received by the NSGO no later than 5 p.m three business days following the closing date.

        C. Submission Dates and Times:

        Applications should be submitted via www.grants.gov, and must be received by grants.gov no later than 11:59 PM EST on October 30, 2006 to be considered for funding. If grants.gov cannot reasonably be used, hard copy applications must be postmarked, or provided to a delivery service and documented with a receipt, by October 30, 2006. Applications submitted via the U.S. Postal Service must have an official postmark; private metered postmarks are not acceptable. In any event, applications received later than 15 business days following the postmark closing date will not be accepted. No facsimile or electronic mail applications will be accepted.

        C. Submission Dates and Times:

        The deadline for receipt of proposals at the NOAA/NWS office is 5 p.m., EDT, October 20, 2006. For proposals submitted through grants.gov, a date and time receipt indication is included and will be the basis of determining timeliness. Hard copy proposals will be date and time stamped when they are received in the program office. Proposals received after the deadline will be rejected/returned to the sender without further consideration.