Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute Cooperative Agreement Notice-5 (SSERVI CAN-5)

Summary field in the NSPIRES cover pages. No budget is required. Submission of the Step-1 proposal does not obligate the proposer to submit a Step-2 (full) proposal later; however, Step-2s can only be submitted if a Step-1 proposal was submitted. Step-1 proposals will be treated as competition-sensitive material. Step-1 proposals are to be submitted electronically by clicking the create button on the row that says “Step-1 Proposals Due” on the NSPIRES web page on which this CAN is posted and entering the requested information. To generate a Step-1 Proposal, the system will request the following information: • Principal Investigator's name, institution, mailing address, phone number, and email address • Name(s) and institution(s) of any Co-Investigator(s) and other known Team members • Descriptive title of the intended investigation • Brief description of the investigation to be proposed

SSERVI CAN-5 17 A separate Step-1 proposal should be submitted for each intended proposal. Note that this Step-1 proposal is also the preliminary version of the Proposal Cover Page/Proposal Summary; some of the information will carry over into the final Step-2 proposal cover pages for your convenience. Additional details regarding the Proposal Cover Page/Proposal Summary can be found in Section D.1.4.1.1. See Section F.1.1 for details about how Step-1 proposals will be reviewed. Since Step1 proposals may be shared with reviewers as part of the review assignment process, both the proposal summary and the attached PDF file must be anonymous.
To submit a Step-1 proposal, including the required Proposal Cover Page/Proposal Summary, all organizations proposing to this CAN and all participating investigators must be preregistered in NSPIRES and have received a User ID and password. This includes the PI, Deputy PI(s), CoInvestigators, and Collaborators. NSPIRES registration can be done at the website http://nspires.nasaprs.com. Early registration is advised; organizations must first be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM; https://www.sam.gov), which can take up to 30 days to complete. For questions about SAM, please see the FAQs at https://sam.gov/content/help. The NSPIRES Help Desk is available at (202) 479-9376 or by email at nspires-help@nasaprs.com. 1.3. Data and Evaluation Costs Per 2 CFR 200.455 costs related to data and evaluation are allowable grant expenditures. Data costs include (but are not limited to) the expenditures needed to gather, store, track, manage, analyze, disaggregate, secure, share, publish, or otherwise use data to administer or improve the program, such as data systems, personnel, data dashboards, cybersecurity, and related items. 1.4. Step-2 Proposal Content Step-2 proposals are the full proposal and should clearly address the scope of this CAN as discussed in Section D.1.4 and the requirements outlined below. Full (Step-2) proposals must broadly contain the same scientific goals pro