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| advice on grant review debacle
Posted by Sue G   on 11/5/2009, 9:16 am
Our agency recently partnered in submitting a grant application to a state agency. The lead applicant agency followed the RFP directions, uploaded multiple sections of the proposal to the web portal, and met all deadlines. A month after the funding was awarded to another agency, our partner received the review committee's written comments which made little sense. In discussing the situation, the state program officer and the director of the applicant agency determined that the proposal had not been reviewed in its entirety, but that a state employee had downloaded part of their current application and parts of an unrelated application from the previous year. Thus, the review committee reviewed parts of un-related proposals, rather than the submitted application. The result was a very low score and no funding for the applicant. The program officer acknowledged that they have had problems with downloading applications correctly in the past. She further stated that the applicant wouldn't have been funded anyway because of their program model (even though the program narrative and methodology were sections that weren't reviewed). The RFP states that funding awards are final and there is no appeal process.
Does anyone have any suggestions about appropriate next steps for the applicant?
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