Solicitation Management System
Overview
The purpose of this project is to build a system that allows funding organizations to conduct grant solicitations over the Web. The system allows organizational staff to create and manage any number of grant solicitations, and to manage a pool of expert evaluators. The system supports the following basic activities needed to conduct a grant solicitation from inception through the first round of eliminations, or first down select. The system will be extended in the future to support real-time panel review and final elimination.
- Evaluators register themselves.
- A staff member creates a solicitation.
- Applicants submit grant proposals.
- Staff print interim reports.
- Staff assign evaluators to proposals.
- Evaluators read proposals.
- Evaluators submit evaluations.
- Staff perform first down-select (elimination).
- Staff print reports.
The system will be extended by adding the following steps.
- Staff organize panels.
- Panelists read proposals.
- Applicants present to panelists; panelists evaluate and score proposals.
- Staff print reports.
- Staff perform second down-select (final elimination).
- Staff print final reports.
Funding for this project has come from the Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization at CSUSB.
Presentations
Contributors
The following individuals have been involved in the development of SMS, which began in July, 2003.
- Dr. Arturo Concepcion, project lead
- Dr. David Turner, technical lead
- Dr. Tong Yu, security consultant
- Dr. Josephine Mendoza, database consultant
- Dung Vu, OTTC system and database administrator
- Satya Prasad, graduate student
- Rajiv Sadagopan, graduate student
- Rick Pallow, graduate student
- Jonathan Wang, graduate student
- Alan Lin, graduate student
- Christina Wu, graduate student
- Robert Chen, graduate student
- Yao Lung Fan, graduate student
- Kun-Che (Brent) Chen, graduate student
- Chia-Ming (Jeremy) Chang, graduate student
Current Development Activities
- Make application questions specific to solicitations. (Jeremy)
- Make evaluation questions specific to solicitations. (Jeremy)
- For the above 2 tasks, provide a clone function that allows the officer to clone an old solicitation. (Jeremy)
- Add reports in PDF format. (Jeremy)
- Improve graphics, layout and client¡¯s interface. (Jeremy)
- Allow officer to upload solicitation instructions for each solicitation. (Jeremy)
There is a test system to look at. Go to SMS Test System, and log in with the following credentials:
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username
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password
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admin
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admin
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officer
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applicant
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evaluator
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Future Directions
- Implement the panel review process.
- Organize core functionality into a library to be used in similar projects.
- Continue to develop automated tests.
- Re-factor the document conversion server.
- Develop capacity tests.
- Have officers create evaluator accounts; remove self-registration of evaluators.
Installation Instructions