Sporadic Issues with S2S Applicant Submissions

Since Monday, April 30, 2012, it was observed that a number of S2S submissions by applicants have encountered  the same error:

Error:Exception caught during S2SReceiving process:Schema validation failed XML validation error: Exception caught getting schemaLocation value: -1

The error encountered by applicants has been traced to a tightening up of schema validation rules (which was done with the recent System Build over the weekend of April 28^th) in order to bring Grants.gov up to par with best practices of XML.

Our team is in process of developing and testing a fix.

The Federal agencies have all been notified of the situation.

If you are encountering this issue, we ask that you contact the program point of contact on your full funding opportunity announcement for guidance.

Please note that this does not effect Adobe PDF submissions.

We will continue to provide updates throughout the day.

Thank you for your patience.