Proposal Processing and Preaward Services

What We Do

  • Review, approve and submit all proposal to external sponsors, including federal grants.gov submissions and non-federal proposal central submissions;

  • Review, comment, correct and submit all research related documents to external sponsors;

  • Negotiate research agreements, contracts, non-disclosure agreements, clinical trial agreements, and any other document that is related to research with external sponsors and subrecipient organizations, including agreements where no money is changing hands;

  • Is the University of Florida’s designated office responsible for the acceptance of all grants, contracts, or other awards;

  • Provides University of Florida Authorized Official signature on documents related to research and training activities;

  • Is a campus resource for guidance and answers to questions relating to your proposal, budgeting, contract negotiations and more;

Office Information

DSR Contact page for phone, address, staff, and location information.

Mail Log

The Mail Log provides easy access to information concerning internal or external proposals, contracts and other mail received that is being processed by Proposal Processing staff.

Policies, Procedures and General Information

The Researcher’s Handbook published and maintained by DSR contains the policies, procedures and general information for conducting research at the University of Florida.

Below is a Quick Guide to Frequently Needed information for Proposal Preparation and Budget Development. If you require detailed information please refer to the Researcher’s Handbook sections Proposal Development, Preparing a Budget, Proposal Processing and the Sponsor’s Guidelines.

Proposal Preparation Information

Budget Preparation Information

Getting Human Subjects and Animal Approvals

National Institutes of Health

National Science Foundation

Clinical Trials

This website is designed to provide guidance and information about DSR’s Clinical Trial Procedures, including but not limited to, CTA Processing Guide, Clinical Trial set-up, Industry funded Clinical Trial Fund 214 Procedures, Clinicaltrials.gov, and the Closeout Process. HSC faculty and staff must also follow the procedures of the HSC Clinical Trial Compliance Office.

MyUFL Grants System Information

Miscellaneous Information