AOR and E-Biz POC: What's the Difference?
What is the difference between an Authorized Organization Representative and an Electronic Business Point of Contact? Can the same person be both?
An Authorized Organization Representative (AOR) is someone who has permission from the organization to submit grant applications. The Electronic Business Point of Contact (E-Biz POC) for an organization is the person who grants permission to an AOR to submit applications. If you are the person who registered your organization with CCR, and you named yourself as the E-Biz Point of Contact, you are able to grant this permission. An E-Biz POC can also be an AOR; however, you must register with grants.gov and request to become an AOR for your organization.
Who is my organization’s Electronic Business Point of Contact?
The Electronic Business Point of Contact (E-Biz POC) was named when your organization registered with Central Contractor Registry (CCR) on the http://www.ccr.gov website. If you personally registered your organization with CCR, you were required to provide a name and contact information for this role and create a unique Marketing Personal Identification Number (MPIN). NOTE: This is different from the Trading Personal Identification Number (TPIN) assigned to you when your organization’s registration was confirmed by CCR.
If you did not personally register your organization with CCR, you may want to locate the E-Biz POC for your organization to expedite the authorization process.
I’m the E-Biz POC. How do I authorize myself or anyone else as an AOR?
As the E-Biz POC, you will receive emails from applicants within your organization that have registered with Grants.gov and are requesting to be authorized as an AOR, including yourself. To login and authorize AORs, use the E-Biz POC Login link at the right of the http://www.grants.gov homepage. You will need two pieces of information: the DUNS number of your organization and the MPIN that was created when your organization was registered with CCR. Once you are logged in, you will click on “Manage Applicants” which will bring up a screen with a list of names of persons requesting authorization as an AOR. Select the box to the left of the name you would like to authorize and click “Reassign Roles.” The next screen that appears will have two boxes: “Remaining Roles” to the left and “Current Roles” to the right. Simply click on the role “Authorized Applicant” in the “Remaining Roles” box, and then click the arrow to move that role to “Current Roles” box. Save this action by clicking “Continue.” Now this person is able to submit grant applications via the Grants.gov system. There is no further action required other than to logout.
The applicant user guide for Grants.gov provides more detailed information as well as screenshots for this process. You can access this guide from here: http://grants.gov/applicants/app_help_reso.jsp#guides.
I’m the person who registered my organization with CCR, but I’ve forgotten the MPIN I created for the E-Biz POC. What do I do?
This information is accessible at http://www.ccr.gov. Click “Update/Renew Registration,” answer the question on the following screen regarding Federal entity status, which leads you to the “Update/Renew” screen that asks for your DUNS and either your Confirmation or Trading Personal Identification Number (TPIN) number. If you have been confirmed by CCR, you will have been assigned a TPIN. If you have forgotten your TPIN number, you can request that it be sent to you via US Postal Mail, but be advised that this letter will be sent to the person who is named as the primary contact for the organization. If the primary contact is you, the letter will come to you. If you named someone else, it will go to that person.
Note: If you registered or renewed with CCR prior to December 21, 2008, you will need both the DUNS number and the Trading Partner Identification Number (TPIN) associated with your organization to log into the system. If you accessed the system using your TPIN after December 21, 2008, you were prompted to submit a new password, which you will now use for logging into the CCR system. For more information on CCR login procedure changes, please consult the CCR website, http://www.ccr.gov.
Once you have successfully logged into the CCR system, use the navigation sidebar on the left to skip to the “Points of Contact” portion of your registration. If you scroll to the end of that section, the MPIN should be in the last field, “Marketing Personal Identification Number (MPIN).”
For additional help documents regarding the CCR.gov process, go to http://www.ccr.gov/handbook.aspx.
