Do you often find your organization with a stack of proposals or research projects to evaluate and no availability to review them?
Do you need an independent review by experts who understand the underlying science or technologies?
Do you need quick results from a transparent process that meets your changing needs?
You are not alone. Many grant-awarding organizations need a transparent process to secure qualified recommendations before making a decision on where to allocate funding. You need access to the best advice in order to make the best decision. Through a proven and respected peer and merit review process, ORAU helps its customers make informed decisions on how best to invest their research dollars.
Your organization can benefit from our experience in managing highly competitive peer and merit reviews of research proposals submitted in a number of scientific fields, including the physical sciences, medical and health research, and multiple disciplines related to homeland security. Top scientific and technical experts will offer independent and objective evaluation of scientific information related to:
- research applications and proposals.
- status reports of ongoing research projects or programs.
- scientific or technical reports or assessments.
You can choose from a variety of options to tailor the review process to meet your changing needs. You make the decisions that work for you, but we do the leg work to start the review process, planning, reviewer recruitment, and other logistics related to executing an effective peer review.
Access to our award-winning PeerNet scoring database can streamline your review while ensuring process integrity. PeerNet offers reviewers easy access to electronic copies of documents for review and allows reviewers flexibility in time and location for conducting their individual review.
PeerNet offers you immediate results through real-time access to ongoing evaluations, as well as documentation and reporting capabilities to meet your requirements.
Reap the rewards from our planning, organizing, and conducting these independent scientific evaluations, which include:
- facilitating collaboration between your organization, academia, and federal and state agencies to advance scientific research and education.
- focusing research efforts where most needed.
- promoting and improving the quality of the research you fund.
Learn more about our process and capabilities:
Plan the Review
Your specific needs and criteria are at the forefront of developing a custom peer review process.
Identify the Experts
Your requirements and preferences are used to identify qualified reviewers in our established professional networks.
Conduct the Peer Review
You tell us what you need and we’ll manage the logistics of the peer review to meet those needs.
Manage the Information
No matter how large or small your review may be, you’ll have access to PeerNet, our benchmark software program dedicated to smoothly and efficiently managing and expediting the peer review process.
Coordinate Workshops
We manage and facilitate workshops and other meetings as another means for research discussions.
Implement Improvements
You deserve a system that takes advantage of opportunities for continuous improvement to keep making things better and easier for you.