NSF — proposals submitted without a Data Management Plan are returned without review

The National Science Foundation's Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG, Chapter II.D.2.i(ii), 2011 onward) requires every proposal to include a Data Management Plan. Proposals submitted without a DMP are returned without review.

For C-0003 and C-0025: NSF's policy is the earliest and most procedurally complete instance of the mandate-shift in U.S. federal research funding. Compliance is enforced before substantive evaluation: the agency does not rate the proposal, decline the proposal on its merits, or fund the proposal subject to a corrective DMP. The proposal is simply not reviewed. The NSF policy has run for fifteen years, and its existence as a hard prerequisite establishes the administrative pattern the NIH DMS Policy (E-0044), the Gates Foundation's OA.Works monitoring (E-0045), Horizon Europe's Article 17 (E-0089), and Wellcome's institutional-suspension framework (E-0090) extend toward verification of execution, not just plan submission.