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Researchers using SIMS
Introduction
The Award IAF approval process extends the Proposal IAF workflow. Award IAFs require a corresponding Proposal IAF. “Other” approvers may be added to the approval workflow, but the addition of investigators or re-approvals must be done at the proposal stage (see “Return IAF to Proposal”).
A sponsoring agency or submitting unit must notify the central processing office of an award receipt.
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Central Processing Office Initiation
The central processing office may acknowledge the award by matching a pending Proposal IAF. Submitting units receive a “Notification of Log Match” (see image below) email when a proposal match is made. The notification email may indicate additional steps for the submitting unit to complete. In this case, the Award IAF must be completed and submitted back to the central processing office in order for the award to be fully processed.
Note: Any place a Prime/Sponsor name displays with a sponsor issue flags the symbol will appear after the name. See Example Below:
Submitting Unit Initiation
An Award IAF can be initiated through the IAF wizard (see “Creating a New IAF”), and must be associated with a pending Proposal IAF. The submitting unit will complete any additional requirements and submit to the central processing office.
SIMBA Implementation
Upon SIMBA implementation, additional verbiage (red text in image below) has been added to the match email notification sent to the college when a pending IAF is linked to a Negotiation Manager record with a New or Additional Funds action resulting in a new log record.
For more information, please contact simsadmin@psu.edu