Australian Research Council Act 2001 - Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities - Funding Rules for funding commencing in 2008
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7.1 Eligibility Exemption and Eligibility Ruling Process
7.1.1 This item is not relevant to LIEF as formal eligibility exemption and eligibility ruling request processes do not operate in this scheme.
7.2 Proposals
7.2.1 A Proposal should be submitted as a mature plan ready for implementation. The Proposal must contain all the information necessary for its assessment without the need for further written or oral explanation, or reference to additional documentation, unless requested by the ARC or its College of Experts.
7.2.2 All details in the Proposal must be current at the time of submission.
7.2.3 In submitting a Proposal, the Administering Organisation and the CIs and PIs nominated in the Proposal are consenting to the Proposal’s being assessed under the ARC’s peer assessment procedures and agree to the release of the Proposal to third parties for assessment purposes.
7.3 Certification
7.3.1 The Administering Organisation must obtain the agreement of all parties necessary to allow the proposed project to proceed. These agreements must be attested to by hand-written signatures and certifications from all relevant persons and organisations involved in the Proposal. These agreements, certifications and signatures are to be retained by the Administering Organisation which must provide them if requested by the ARC. A form is available for this purpose on the ARC’s Web Site. If the Administering Organisation fails to provide this material upon request, the ARC may in its absolute discretion decide to not recommend the Proposal for approval.
7.3.2 A Proposal must be submitted through the appropriate Research Office. If a Proposal has not been submitted through the appropriate Research Office/Chief Executive Officer for certification, the Proposal will not be recommended or approved for funding.
7.4 Submission of Proposals
7.4.1 Proposals under LIEF consist of two parts:
a. an on-line form which must be completed and submitted in the ARC on-line grants application management system accessible via the ARC’s Web Site; and
b. additional text which must be submitted as part of the paper version of the Proposal:
Section A12, “Certification by Administering Organisation and, if applicable, Collaborating and/or Partner Organisations”;
Section F1 “Statement Addressing Selection Criteria”;
Section F2 “Detailed Budget Justification”;
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Section F3 “Infrastructure, Equipment or Facilities Arrangements”;
Section F4 “Role of Personnel”;
Section F6 “References”;
Section F7 “Curriculum Vitae(s)”;
Section F8 “Summary of Quotes”; and
If applicable:
(a) Section D2, “Statements on Progress of ARC-funded LIEF Projects”; and
(b) Section F5, “Additional Information for Library and Research Information Proposals”.
7.4.2 Format
7.4.2.1 All documents must be written in English and must comply strictly with the format and submission requirements. If a Proposal fails to meet any format and content requirements, the ARC may in its absolute discretion decide to not recommend the Proposal for approval.
7.4.2.2 All pages of additional text should be in black type, use a single column and 12-point font size on white A4 paper, be printed on one side only and unbound, with all margins being at least 2 cm wide. As Proposals are scanned electronically, a highly legible font type must be used, such as Arial, Courier, Palatino, Times New Roman and Helvetica. Variants such as mathematical typesetting languages may also be used. References may be reproduced in 10-point font size. Colour graphs or colour photographs may be included but they will be reproduced in black and white and the reproduction quality may not be optimal. Finely detailed graphics and grey scale may also not be precisely reproduced.
7.4.2.3 The pages of the Proposal should be numbered consecutively starting from page 1.
7.4.3 How to complete and submit a Proposal
7.4.3.1 Administering Organisations must use the form within the ARC’s on-line grants application management system accessible via the ARC’s Web Site.
7.4.3.2 A separate document, Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Instructions to Applicants for Funding commencing in 2008, will be available from the ARC’s Web Site to assist in preparing Proposals.
7.4.3.3 Administering Organisations may have internal closing dates for Proposal preparation which precede ARC closing times.
7.4.3.4 Research Offices have access to the ARC on-line grants application management system and will allocate User IDs and passwords to enable researchers at their organisations to access the system and to draft Proposals. If a researcher has previously been allocated access, her/his User ID and password should still be current. If researchers do not have a Research Office or equivalent unit, they should email gamsids@arc.gov.au for assistance.
7.4.3.5 Research Offices should submit forms in the ARC’s on-line grants application management system and forward the Proposal and a copy which must, as far as possible, identically match the contents of the submitted on-line application form. Proposals should be sent:
by mail to:
LIEF Coordinator<br>Australian Research Council<br>GPO Box 2702<br>CANBERRA ACT 2601
7.4.4.1 In addition to the on-line form, a paper version of the Proposal must be submitted in duplicate (one original and one identical copy). The paper version must be clipped, not stapled. The paper version of the Proposal must be submitted with the additional text, including supporting documentation, interleaved appropriately (see LIEF Instructions to Applicants for Funding commencing in 2008).
7.4.5 Closing time for Proposals
7.4.5.1 Subject to subsection 7.4.5.3, the paper versions of a Proposal must be received by the ARC, and the on-line form completed using the ARC’s on-line grants application management system must be submitted to the ARC, by 5.00 pm (AEST) Friday 18 May 2007.
7.4.5.2 Proposals may be withdrawn but additions, deletions and modifications will not be accepted after submission, unless invited by the ARC.
7.4.5.3 If a Proposal is received by the ARC after 5.00 pm (AEST) Friday 18 May 2007 the ARC may, in its absolute discretion, decide to not recommend the Proposal for approval. In deciding whether to recommend or not recommend such a Proposal the ARC may take into account whether:
a. in the opinion of the ARC, exceptional circumstances apply; or
b. the Administering Organisation is able to provide evidence to the satisfaction of the ARC that all the documents were despatched by the Administering Organisation sufficiently in advance of the closing time for the documents to have been delivered to the ARC by the closing time in the normal course of events.