UCSF Link is a campus-wide initiative to improve administrative operations by leveraging technology and streamlining business processes in order to provide quality customer service, contain and reduce administrative costs and improve compliance.

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Research Administration System

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Date of Rollout: February 14, 2005

This was the first component of the research administration system to be rolled out to the campus. Proposal Express is a custom pre-award module that Departments use to generate the UCSF OSR Approval Form for each proposal that they submit to either the Contracts & Grants or the Industry Contracts Divisions of the Office of Sponsored Research (OSR). In turn, staff in OSR record the receipt, review assignment and ultimate disposition of the proposal in the new system, allowing departments to track the status of the proposal and know when/how it was shipped to the sponsoring agency.

This was a significant step toward integration, and began preparing the campus for the transition to PeopleSoft Grants. Proposal Express represents the first time that Departments and OSR are working together in an on-line system to record and track proposals.

Specific information related to implementation timeline, training, and other issues can be found in our Campus Communications.

Basic information about the design and function of Proposal Express can be found in the presentation that was delivered to the campus at town hall meetings in December of 2004.