NASA ROSES-16 Amendment 3: Separately Uploaded Total Budget Files for ROSES-2016 proposals

ROSES-2016 was released with new budget rules barring the inclusion of any salary or indirect rate information from the proposal document to prevent this information from being seen by peer reviewers, see Section IV(b)(iii) of the ROSES-2016 Summary of Solicitation. Although ROSES-2016 already required that the full budget must be provided in the NSPIRES cover page budgets, many proposers needed a better way to provide to NASA detailed budgetary information (such as phasing by fiscal year and indirect rate information for subawards). This Amendment allows proposers to provide that additional information to NASA without it being seen by peer reviewers.

With this amendment, all ROSES program elements are set up to allow proposers to separately upload a “Total Budget” PDF to the same ROSES program element NSPIRES “response structure” to which the proposal is submitted.More information on requirements for ROSES-2016 budgets may be found at:

http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/how-to-guide/nspires-CSlabor/

No due dates for proposals have been changed. Lists of due dates ordered chronologically may be found at http://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2016table2 and by subject area at http://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2016table3.

On or about March 24, 2016, this Amendment to the NASA Research Announcement “Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2016” (NNH16ZDA001N) will be posted on the NASA research opportunity homepage at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ and will appear on the RSS feed at: http://nasascience.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/grant-solicitations/roses-2016.

The NASA point of contact for ROSES-2016 is Max Bernstein, who may be reached at max.bernstein@nasa.gov. The points of contact for individual program elements are listed at http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/program-officers-list/.