The following notice from the National Science Foundation (NSF) was issued on March 11, 2015. Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact your OSPA Pre-Award staff.
We are writing to let you know that some of the National Science Foundation (NSF) awardees and applicants may have received an email from Grants.gov stating the following:
“A grant opportunity you have previously downloaded from Grants.gov has been deleted. National Science Foundation will no longer be accepting applications for this opportunity…”
Although some funding opportunities are legitimately deleted for various reasons, it may be the case that this email was sent about funding opportunities that are actually still available on Grants.gov and FastLane. For consistency with revisions made to FastLane resulting from issuance of the FY2015 Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG), some funding packages with outdated forms needed to be deleted from Grants.gov and replaced with updated forms. Unfortunately, this deletion process created an automatic email from the Grants.gov system. NSF is working with Grants.gov to determine if this situation can be prevented in the future.
If you received this message from Grants.gov or you receive questions about this message, please direct awardees and applicants to use the same federal grants opportunity number to search for the same grant opportunity on Grants.gov to see if it is still active. If it is not, then it has likely been deleted for a legitimate reason and we are asking that applicants and awardees contact the cognizant Program Officer for more information.
For additional questions, please contact the NSF Help Desk.
7 AM to 9 PM
1-800-673-6188.
Thank you,
The National Science Foundation
