ERA Steering Team approves Project Charter. The Project Management team begins taking shape soon after.

Requirements gathering team solicits feedback from campus stakeholder groups, including principal investigators, associate deans for research, college research offices and more.

Requests for Proposals (RFP) officially released. The final RFP included more than 200 requirements — which were developed according to the diverse needs of all stakeholder groups.

On-campus vendor demos take place. Of the six vendors that met all of the RFP’s critical requirements, three were selected as finalists and invited to Raleigh.

InfoEd Global selected as software vendor. InfoEd has been on the leading edge of ERA systems for over 30 years — since it released SPIN, the world’s first search engine for finding research funding opportunities.

Our ERA system gets its own name — the Research Enterprise Data (RED) system. RED will eventually consist of six modules and replace the legacy systems PINS and RADAR, as well as NC State’s homegrown research compliance software.

RED debuts its first module — Animal Care and Use (IACUC). Prior to this module’s implementation, all of the IACUC Office’s processes were managed through disparate Word documents and email.

Conflict of Interest (COI) module launches. The module, which is now known as the Conflict of Interest/Commitment (COI/COC) module, houses both the Financial Interest disclosure and External Professional Activity request forms.

Proposal Tracking (PT) and Post Award Management (PAM) modules Go Live. PT/PAM work in tandem with the Sponsored Research Activity Reporting (SRAR) viewer in place of the legacy system RADAR.

Proposal Development (PD) module phased rollout begins. PD replaces the legacy system PINS and rounds out RED’s suite of Sponsored Programs modules.

With all units successfully transitioned from PINS to RED PD, the ability to create new proposals in PINS is deactivated.