GrantOps automates application preparation, evidence packaging, and compliance reporting for NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC, CFI, Mitacs, and Tri-Council programs, without replacing your research office workflow.
Programs covered
Canadian university research offices manage hundreds of concurrent funding instruments across the three federal granting agencies, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Mitacs, Genome Canada, and the Canada First Research Excellence Fund. The work is high-stakes and document-heavy: agencies require contemporaneous evidence of expenditures, eligible activities, and HQP outcomes, while institutions need consolidated rollups for audit and the Tri-Council Policy Statement (TCPS 2) responsible-conduct framework. GrantOps sits beside your existing systems (Romeo, Workday, Banner, the agency portals) and removes the manual document assembly that consumes most pre-award and post-award cycles.
Coverage spans the federal granting agencies and the major Canadian research-funding instruments. Each program has its own forms, eligibility windows, and reporting cadences. GrantOps tracks the differences so your principal investigators do not have to.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Long-term operating funding for natural sciences and engineering research programs. Grants of up to five years, paid in annual installments.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
University research projects with private, public or not-for-profit partner organizations. Alliance Advantage matches recognized partner cash 2:1; Alliance Society covers 100% of project costs. No deadline.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Open competition for hypothesis-driven, knowledge-generation, or knowledge-translation health research. Spring and Fall competitions.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Social sciences and humanities research by emerging and established scholars over two to five years. One competition a year: the October 2026 competition closed October 1, with results in April 2027.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Formal partnerships in the social sciences and humanities over 4 to 7 years. Two stages; partners add at least 35% in cash and/or in-kind contributions. Stage 1 deadline February 10, 2027.
Canada Foundation for Innovation
Capital investment in research infrastructure (equipment, software, lab buildouts). Funds up to 40 percent of a project's eligible infrastructure costs; other sources cover the rest.
Mitacs
Industry-academic partnership grants funding graduate-student and postdoctoral internships. Partner organisation matches Mitacs contribution.
NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC
Canada Graduate Research Scholarships – Doctoral ($40,000 a year for 36 months) and Canada Postdoctoral Research Awards ($70,000 a year for 24 months): the harmonized tri-agency programs that replace Vanier and Banting, which no longer accept applications.
Genome Canada
Large-scale genomics research projects with translational impact. Funded through competitions co-managed with provincial Genome Centres.
Canada First Research Excellence Fund
Long-term, large-scale support for institutional research-priority areas. Awards of up to seven years, with no prescribed award size.
Most research-office software was designed for legacy ERP integration first and the funding agencies second. GrantOps inverts that: agency-aware automation first, then read-only integrations into your institutional systems.
Generates the contemporaneous expenditure logs, deliverable narratives, and HQP rosters that NSERC, CIHR, and SSHRC require at progress-report time.
Workflow templates aligned with TCPS 2 (2022) responsible-conduct requirements, REB submission packaging, and the Canadian Research Data Management policy. Audit logs are immutable.
CFI requires Annual Project Progress Reports and Final Reports across multiple linked awards. GrantOps consolidates expenditures, in-kind contributions, and infrastructure use across PIs into a single institutional view.
Pulls financial data from Workday and Banner, research-administration data from Romeo, and HR data from PeopleSoft. We never write back to systems of record. Your data residency stays inside Canada.
The incumbents were built before the federal granting agencies digitised their submission portals. They are strongest where universities have invested in legacy ERP integration. GrantOps is strongest where agencies and reporting requirements have moved fastest.
| Capability | GrantOps | InfoEd | Cayuse | Streamlyne | Kuali Coeus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-award proposal management | ~ | ||||
| Post-award compliance reporting | ~ | ||||
| Tri-Council compatibility | ~ | ~ | ~ | ||
| Multi-agency rollups (CFI, NSERC, CIHR) | ~ | ~ | ~ | ||
| AI-generated evidence packages | |||||
| Canadian data residency | ~ | ~ | |||
| Pricing transparency | ~ | ~ |
Comparison reflects publicly documented capabilities as of 2026. Partial support means a feature exists but requires additional configuration, modules, or integration work.
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