| The Sponsored Projects Office (SPO)
has announced the debut of the Research Administration Proposal
Information Database (RAPID). RAPID replaces a 15-year-old system
and is the Laboratory’s implementation of PeopleSoft’s
Grants Management. It covers the administrative aspects of creating
and managing non-DOE research proposals along with award authorization,
project creation, and post-award administrative management.
RAPID is an integrated part of the Laboratory’s enterprise
business system, FMS (Financial Management System), and is
accessed through that system. This integration will allow
the Laboratory administrative and management community to
access important administrative, financial, and management
sponsored research data, which was previously unavailable.
Division Directors and Principal Investigators will not notice
a change in the review and approval of sponsored project proposals
for the first month, but after that they’ll have the
opportunity to use a web-based proposal approval system, which
is currently being developed and tested. A Berkeley Lab community
meeting will be held regarding this proposal approval system
later this month.
Laboratory cross-functional teams from Administrative Services,
Financial Services, Life Sciences and Environmental Energy
Technologies divisions, as well as Information Systems and
Services, have worked for over two years to document, model,
and implement this new system. The effort was lead by Project
Manager Steve Bakaley from ISS and Associate Project Director
Phyllis Gale from SPO. The Project Director is Bill Wasson
and the Application Owner is Jeff Weiner.
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