SOME TIPS ON LATE AND CORRECTED APPLICATIONS:
The NIH will bend over backwards to accept your late application for up to two weeks beyond the deadline. As long as you can give a plausible reason, they will accept the application. The closer to the original deadline, the more likely they are to accept the application.
Always try to be on time because the NIH is under no obligation to accept your late application. If you are late for some reason, by all means submit anyways and include a letter of explanation. The reviewers will not know that the application was late. Basically, only Receipt and Referral will know this.
You can also change your application up to two weeks after the submission deadline. Simply resubmit it with your corrections and include a letter of explanation. This letter will not go to reviewers; it will only be seen by Receipt and Referral. Make sure the reason is sound.
You can change just about anything in the application, including the Title. Such changes are not unusual, so do not be shy about taking advantage of this opportunity; but remember that your best bet for success in any endeavor is to plan ahead and be on time.
Just as a point of clarification, there is a two day window for correcting an application before the deadline. If you use this two day window, you do not have to provide an explanation. However, you can send in corrections after this two day window for up to two weeks beyond the submission deadline as long as you provide a letter with a plausible reason for why you were late.
In some cases you can make corrections even later than this. Check with your program officer and SRO for help in this matter. Sometimes you can also make changes as part of a Supplementary Material package. But here, you will have to put the change in the context of new information, so it will not be possible to change a title for example (You would be surprised how often this type of change is requested!), but you could send in new preliminary data and as part of that in order to correct errors in the previous preliminary data, just do not put it in terms of a correction.
Most SROs will not allow you to actually correct information in your Supplementary Material package so be careful how you present corrective material, although some SROs will allow corrective material. If you already know the SRO you will already know what kind of Supplementary data will be allowed.
For more tips, click on this link : High Level SBIR/STTR Grant Writing Techniques.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or go to SBIR-STTRgrantshelp.com.
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