To best align with the university's Sponsored Programs Administration proposal policy, the Beckman Institute's proposal policy has two main components:

Proposal Initiation Form

Proposal Initiation Forms are required to start the proposal process and must be received 8 full business days before the sponsor deadline, or the form will not open. Please do not send proposal details by email before the form is submitted.

Internal Beckman deadline

All final documents* are due to the Beckman Proposal Office 3 full business days prior to the SPA deadline. This will ensure that our staff can complete all their work to meet the SPA deadline. If all final documents are not received 3 full business days before Beckman’s deadline, the proposal will not be submitted to SPA.

Exceptions to this policy will be rare and will require extreme circumstances to be reviewed by the Beckman director.  Additional campus approvals will also be required.

*If using SPA’s option for draft documents, all final versions must be submitted to Beckman by 4 p.m. the day before the sponsor deadline. Beckman Proposal Office working hours end at 5 p.m. daily.

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