Retrieving Unstitched Forms from Grants.gov
Open an internet browser and navigate to Grants.gov: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/forms.html
Forms listed with an asterisk (*) in the PDF column are “unstitched” and available for use with the upload tool.
Note: the comment at the top of the table – that the forms are “not submittable” – means that they are not intended to be submitted individually to Grants.gov. These special forms have been ‘unstitched’ to be included in our S2S submissions as part of a full submission that includes the other forms in the posted opportunity.
1. Unstitched forms do not have a validation tool on the form page. If you are using an unstitched form, you may wish to also download your submission’s Grants.gov opportunity to use as a reference. If you upload an incomplete unstitched form to the User Attached Forms tool, it will not translate, which means it did not validate and cannot be included in the Grants.gov submission until it validates. You will receive the grants.gov form schema –level error message. (The error message may not provide specific faults, but will confirm that the form is incomplete and does not meet the validation requirement.) You must update the form and repeat the upload.
2. Adobe Opportunity Packages: If you want to use an Optional form in an Adobe Opportunity, click in the box beside the form name to select it for inclusion. You may then click on the form name to navigate directly to it, or scroll down until you get to the form. Follow sponsor-specific instructions for your submission to complete the data requirements. The minimum form-level data requirements can be verified by using the “Check Package for Errors” button on the cover page. I you receive the “Complete” mark; the form has met the minimum validation. (This may not meet the sponsor’s requirement.) You must provide at least the minimum requirement to successfully translate the form.
3. The tool does not have the ability to support Mandatory forms in an Adobe Opportunity, due to the “stitched” nature of data flow between forms. If the form is mandatory, you will need to locate and use the unstitched form from Grants.gov
4. If the forms you will be uploading using the User Attached Forms tool are Optional, you can connect to the opportunity either before or after you upload the form:
a. If you connect before uploading the forms with the tool, the Grants.gov Forms section will show those optional forms as “unavailable”.
b. If you connect to the Grants.gov opportunity after uploading the forms and saving your proposal, when you complete the connection to the opportunity, the Grants.gov Forms Description column will note ‘User Attached Form” in those form rows and allow you click the box to include that optional form in the submission.
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