F Issue them immediately. F Maintain the same budget number for the entire length of a grant. F Speed the process O Don't keep changing budget numbers for renewals or supplements. O Keep the administrator and PI informed of what is going on. O Make it happen as soon as the award is received.
R Do it the day the award arrives R electronic notification of an active budget number.
R getting an advance budget number quicker. R Have it down electronically between the governing UW departments. Once we know money is coming, get a budget number assigned. And making such inquiries seem counter-productive, i.e. distracting coordinators from the act of processing the requests. So, yes, I knew it was an option for federally funded grants, but it is not an option available to us.