Tips

As a reminder, when you receive a request for clarification for a MyRA agreement from the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP), quickly address the request by completing the following steps (both steps are required):

To grant access to an SF-424 application, click ‘Assign Editors and Readers’ on the Workspace left side menu (Figure 1).  Assign either a Project Reader or Editor to the SF-424 application by searching for the name to add and then click ‘OK’ (Figure 2).

Figure 1: SF-424 Workspace

When submitting the request form for MyFunding or MyRA Access, two signatures are required to approve the request and to ensure the appropriate level of access is provided. The first signature is from the direct supervisor of the individual needing access (Figure 1).  

In MyRA, an agreement can be withdrawn while it is in the Pre-Submission (Draft) or Review state. The “Withdraw” activity is only available to the Principal Investigator (PI) or their proxies.

Please contact myrahelp@pitt.edu to withdraw agreements if the activity is not available to you (Figure 1) or contact your specialist to discard the agreement if already submitted.

Figure 1. Withdraw Activity on Agreement Workspace

As a reminder, you do not need to wait until a contracting party is added to MyRA to complete and submit Agreements. When you select 'Pending' for the Contracting Party (Figure 1), the agreement will automatically update when the new contracting party is available. 

Figure 1.  Contracting Party Information Workspace 

To maintain clear documentation and proper approvals, bulk record access requests for MyFunding and MyRA have been updated to follow a streamlined process.

Bulk access requests must be signed by the individual’s supervisor and authorized RC before being submitted to peristeam@pitt.edu.

Follow the below steps to submit PERIS™ system bulk access requests:

As a reminder, contacting the correct person in the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) will ensure that questions related to agreement actions in MyRA are handled quickly and efficiently.

For non-technical questions related to non-financial agreements (indicated below), contact the Contract Services Team at clincorp@pitt.edu.

To ensure CITI trainings are populated in MyFunding, please confirm that your CITI profile uses your Pitt email address as either the primary or secondary email address on your account. 

Updates have been made in MyFunding so that all Funding Proposal (FP) records that are associated with a proposal or award being processed by the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) can be related (connected) to each other.

Funding Proposals

When preparing system-to system administrative supplements in MyFunding, Opportunity IDs (Figure 1) may include multiple application packages (Figure 2).  Therefore, carefully review each package description and select the appropriate package to ensure all required forms and components are included in the submission.

Figure 1. Opportunity ID