Instructions to download NSF’s Program Announcements and Organizational Unit codes with the related divisions and program element codes.
When a Grant Request (proposal) is sent in EDI format as a transaction set 194 NSF requires that the program announcement number be entered in the data element BGN06 of the BGN segment in the position number 020. ( http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/d2/guide.html#BGN06 ) .
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010 |
ST |
Transaction Set Header |
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020 |
BGN |
Beginning Segment |
Further to ensure that the proposal is directed to the correct divisions within NSF, valid division names are required in the EDI transaction. One or more division name should be entered in the data element N903 which is a part of a segment N9 ( position number 130) , that could occur multiple times. (http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/d2/guide.html#N90102-DIV).
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090 |
NM1 |
Individual or Organization name |
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100 |
N2 |
Additional name |
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110 |
N3 |
Address |
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120 |
N4 |
Geographic location |
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130 |
N9 |
Reference Identification |
Finally to ensure that the proposal is directed to the correct programs within divisions within NSF, valid program element names are required in the EDI transaction. One or more NSF organizational units, consisting of a division code concatenated to a program element code should be entered in the data element N902 which is a part of a segment N9 (position number 060), that could occur multiple times. (http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/d2/guide.html#N90102-PID).
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060 |
N9 |
Reference Identification |
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080 |
MTX |
Text |
The program announcements, the related division names, and related program element codes could change in the NSF's database on a daily basis. The end-user who prepares and sends EDI transaction to NSF have two options to extract this data. They can either download using an NSF supplied extract program or click on a hyper-link to download this data interactively through a browser.
Option-1- Use an extract program supplied by NSF to download this data
This option is meant for users who prepare proposals to NSF in EDI format using EDI generation software (such as the one GAMS uses...). They users could add the runing of this "data exract" program as a part of their EDI generation process. Here the user should first download an extract program provided by NSF and then run it with specified input parameters. The extract program is a JAVA class file that requires for running, the use of a JAVA interpreter provided for free with the Java Development Kit JDK. Download the extract program first from the URL http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/GetUrlContents.class. Then run the extract program with two parameters-
java GetUrlContents "http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/gov.nsf.fastlane.edi.GetPgmAnnc" "<Your File Name>"
The output will be created in a file name specified in the second parameter <Your File Name>. Each record in this file contains a program announcement, a division associated with it, and a program element code. The exact format of this file is defined as follows-
The character position of the data items in each record is shown below-
1-10-----------Progam Announcement id Related to EDI BGN06
12-111---------Program Announcement Description
113-122--------Effective date of this program announcement
124-133--------Expiration date of this program announcement
135-142--------Division code
144-183--------Division name Related to N903
185-188--------Program element code
190-219--------Program name Related to N903
221-228--------Organizational Unit Code Related to N903