Routing Steps In Cayuse

All proposal materials will be entered into the Cayuse Sponsored Projects grants management system. Once submitted, the proposal and relevant documents are uploaded, Cayuse will electronically route the proposal and collect the required approvals. 

 

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Step 1: Certification 

Principal investigator and key personnel (Co-PI, Co-I, etc.) will be tasked with reviewing and certifying their proposal is complete and ready for routing. Once all key personnel on the team have certified the project proposal, the proposal will be routed to the second step. 

Step 2: Compliance Review 

The Compliance Review teams will review the proposal. In the event that additional oversight is deemed applicable, OSP will contact the PI with next steps to assure compliance with all federal guidelines and regulations (including export controls). 

Step 2.1: Notifications

Notifications will be sent out to the following teams: as deemed applicable to the scope of work of the proposal:  

      • Budget Review (Finance) 
      • Human Ethics (Institutional Review Board) 
      • IACUC (Animal welfare) 

*These notifications are not part of the review queue but will take place in the background. 

Step 3: College Review  

Deans will review proposals to ensure that scope of work, faculty effort and departmental commitments, budget, and other proposal elements are in order and comply with college and university policy. 

Step 4: Academic Affairs  

Provost & Associate Provost will review proposals to ensure that scope of work, faculty effort and departmental commitments, budget, and other proposal documentation are in order and comply with college and university policy. 

Step 5: OSP Executive Director Review 

The OSP Executive Director will review proposals to ensure that scope of work, faculty effort commitments, budget, and that all relevant documents are in order and comply with college and university policy. 

Step 6: Final Pre-Award Review 

Final holistic review by Pre-award team prior to submission.  

 



 

*Note #1: If a proposal element is updated after the initial certification OR if the proposal is sent back at any stage of the routing queue, it will require the routing process to restart from step 1. This is a system-side requirement. 

 

*Note #2: OSP will only submit proposals and documents that have been reviewed and approved during the routing process. If a proposal that has completed routing review requires updates, it must be re-enter the routing queue.