NSPIRES SMD e-mail

NASA is making a change to the NSPIRES proposal submission process to ensure that a minimum set of required proposal cover page fields have been completed. Effective Friday, September 28, 2007 at approximately 8am ET,  provision of the proposal summary and business data elements of the cover page will be necessary in order for the AOR to submit the proposal to NASA. If either of these two proposal elements are not completed,  the “View Proposal/ Check Elements” function of NSPIRES will display red “error” flags and messages to alert the user to the information that is required but missing,  and the “Submit Proposal” button will not be available.  The proposal cannot be submitted to NASA until these required fields are complete.   Any additional information that is missing will be identified by yellow “warning” flags.   In addition, please check the solicitation instructions to ensure that you comply with all instructions,  as adherence to these two element validation checks alone is insufficient to guarantee a compliant proposal.