Concept Paper Merit Review Tool Capability - Leveraging the power of AI to provide a review of Announcement submittals

📌 Important: This Merit Review Tool is available in BETA mode.

Key Functionality Provided by the Merit Review Tool:

• The Merit Review Tool allows for the Announcement (Lab Call or NOFO) requirements document to be uploaded, which will drive the Ai-powered review criteria.  NOTE: At this time ONLY PDF files are allowed to be uploaded.  
• After the Announcement requirements, then any/all submissions for that Announcement are to be uploaded.  Again, ONLY PDFs are allowed to be uploaded..

Steps to leverage the review tool capability:

After signing in to the Merit Review Tool page, the sign-in button is replaced with your username.

1. First, Click the “Drop PDF file here” prompt under “NOFO Document” and upload the requirements documents. Ensure that the requirements document is a PDF file. 
2. Second, Click the “Drop files here” prompt under “Concept Papers/Slides” and upload all the concept papers/slides you want to review. Ensure that the documents are either PDF  files.
3. Third, Click “Start Review” to begin the review process.
   1. A loading screen should appear on the page.  A message on the page will indicate when the processing is complete = "Analysis Complete"
4. Fourth, click the “Download Report” button to download the report as a Word document. 
   1. The report will contain summary information on the percentage of encouraged and discouraged proposals as well as information on each individual proposal such as the encourage/discourage recommendation, numerical compliance score, analysis rationale, and missing elements in the paper.

See “How to Convert a Document into a PDF File” help topic for guidance on converting a document to a PDF.