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Overview

ePAWs 2.0 brings electronic Pre- and Post-award transactions to Northeastern! After your proposal has been submitted, use ePAWs Transactions to request Just-In-Time (JIT), Award Acceptance, and other Post-Award transactions (e.g. No Cost Extensions, etc.).

Each transaction can be initiated 2 different ways:

Option 1

From the “I’d Like To” menu, select the Transaction type; from the resulting Pop-Up window, find the related record, select the checkbox, and then “Select”

Option 2

• Use the “Search for ePAWs Proposals” widget, OR scroll to the “My Proposals” widget on your dashboard and find the related proposal
• Open the related record, then select your transaction from the “I’d Like To” menu

JIT

• Log into ePAWs, and select your ePAWs role (e.g. College Administrator, Principal / Investigator)
• Using one of the 2 options above, search/find the related proposal
• Open the Proposal; while on the “General Information” tab, from the ‘I’d like to …’ menu, select “Pre-Award Management” and “Just-In-Time”
  • The “Request a Transaction: Pre Award Management - JIT: Just In Time” pop up opens
• In the popup, Administering Unit and Project Start-End Dates are populated from the proposal
• Answer the Type-Specific Questions
• Add Attachments if required
• Add Comment
• Select Submit

Award Acceptance

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The preferred method to initiate an award acceptance is for the award notices to be forwarded to the NU-RES@northeastern inbox ; however, users may intiate an Award Acceptance Request in ePAWs 2.0.

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• Log into ePAWs, and select your ePAWs role (e.g. College Administrator, Principal / Investigator)
• Using one of the 2 options above, search/find the related proposal
• Open the Proposal; while on the “General Information” tab, from the ‘I’d like to …’ menu, select “Award Acceptance” and “Request Award Acceptance”
  • The “Request Award Acceptance” pop up opens
  • Add the Notice of Award as an attachment
  • Answer the questions related to the Notice of Award
  • Add Comment
  • Select Submit

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When an Award Acceptance transaction is initiated on a Submitted Proposal, the record number changes from xx-P-xxxxx to xx-AP-xxxxx to indicate that an Award is in Process.

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No Cost Extension