RFP-I Frequently Asked Questions

In order to attract and retain high quality experts as members of our Science/Industry Advisory Board members, we would like to be able to reimburse these individuals for their travel expense to our yearly meeting. Is that an allowable expense? How about offering them honorarium? If so, what is the ceiling? Thanks.

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The need for an Advisory Board should be justified appropriately in the proposal. Travel expenses for an Advisory Board are allowable as long as these are reasonable expenses and consistent with what would be reimbursed for individuals traveling on U.S. federal (e.g. NSF) funded grants. Honoraria should be reasonable and consistent with Lead Institution Policies for such Advisory Boards. As noted in the RFP-I Section VI 9.0, the Research Board may elect to award a grant for any, all, or none of the proposed activities in any given proposal.

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We submitted an LOI for X amount. We then realized we made a mistake in interpreting the budget information. We know that we need at least twice as much to conduct the research we proposed. We have been told that the difference between the LOI budget and the Proposal budget cannot be more than 5%. Please indicate if this is correct.

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There are several institutions, such as Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System Regional Association, and the Harte Research Institute, taking on roles of data management, outreach and education, and synthesis. Is there more specific information on what they will be doing so that proposal preparers will know what is available from these groups versus what they should be proposing with their consortia under these topics?

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On page 14 of the RFP it states that we need to include costs for an initial coordination meeting and annual two-day meetings "in anticipation of selection and authorization of the following year's funded activities." This suggests two annual meetings of this type, after years 1 and 2. Will there be a further meeting at the end of the three-year period of the proposal for which we need to cover costs?

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In the discussion about the annual two day meetings, the FAQ indicates the first meeting is scheduled for 'January 2013 and each January following'. This would mean the first annual meeting would happen in the middle of year 2. Since the annual meeting is anticipation of the following year's activity - I wonder if the first meeting is actually January 2012?

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We are including information on recent collaborators in each PI’s biosketch (at the NSF style), but such lists are sometimes long and take much of the space of a 2-page biosketch. Would it be better to develop a single alphabetic list of such collaborators for all PIs to facilitate the review process and specify all reviewers that have a potential conflict of interest with the proponents? Will we be able to submit the list with the proposal?

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