This policy establishes explicit, fair, and uniformly applied levels of service for processing proposals for externally-funded research and sponsored projects. The policy is intended to be flexible enough to accommodate the needs of both Lehigh University (“University”) researchers and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) research administrators. This policy establishes three levels of service for ORSP processing of proposals: Full Review, Limited Review, and At-Risk. The level of service for ORSP processing of proposals is determined by the amount of lead time between the Submission Deadline and the date and time of ORSP’s receipt of the Final Version of all Proposal Components.