If you are an Aggregator of the proposal, you have the ability to view the certification questions and whether they have been completed or not:
What this means is that one of the Key People who completed the proposal certification questions answered Yes to one or more of the Significant Financial Interest (SFI) screening questions (#10, 11, or 12). KC then requires the discloser to complete a proposal Conflict of Interest Disclosure, and the proposal cannot be routed until that action is complete.
The way to check if this is the case with your proposal is to click on the COI Disclosure Status button in the Personnel section. If the status is Not Disclosed, then the disclosure is yet to be completed. Not until the status is Submitted for Review can the proposal route:
If your proposal is for a Fellowship and the sponsor isn’t among the PHS hierarchy, you will need to activate the PCK flag in the Supplemental Information section of the proposal to make the Notify button active:
Please refer to the COI quick reference cards for proposal certification requirements as well as instructions for proposal preparers and proposal personnel:
Additionally, refer to the MIT RAS Guidance for Identifying PHS Investigators:
The Key Person you are trying to certify most likely did not have their Kerberos User Name established at the time they were added to the proposal. The best way to determine this is to look in the Details tab in Key Personnel for that individual. If you see their MIT ID number 9XXXXXXX in place of User Name (Figure 1), then their Kerberos had not been established yet. If it has been determined that the individual now has a Kerberos ID, then simply remove the individual from the proposal and then re-add. Their Kerberos name should have replaced their MIT ID number. Then click Notify as normal to facilitate the certification.
