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Purpose To enable grantees
to perform some actions without prior
approval from Grants Management Program (GMP).
Procedure
Expanded
authorities apply to all grants except individual fellowships; however, GMP decides automatic carryover of
unobligated balances based on grant mechanism. Also see the Prior
Approvals for Post-Award Grant Actions SOP.
Principal Investigators
All grantees may perform the following actions without prior approval
from GMP.
- Extension of the final budget period one time for up to 12 months without
additional funds.The grantee may extend the project
period through the eRA
Commons up to the last day or ten days before the grant is originally supposed
to end. The authorized institutional
official must email the grants
management specialist indicating he or she has extended
the grant.
- Carryover of unobligated balances from one budget period to the next for some grant awards. Grantees
must report balances over 25 percent of total costs to the grants management
specialist. Grants and program staff evaluate why there
are funds remaining and how the grantee plans to use them to
ensure:
- 1) We are not over funding the grantee.
- 2) The planned use
of the funds would not expand the scope of
the project. The terms
and conditions of an award will reflect whether the grantee can
carry over funds.
- Transfer the performance of substantive programmatic work to a
third party by a consortium agreement. Under
expanded authorities, a grantee is not required to obtain NIH prior
approval for transferring the performance of substantive programmatic
work unless the activity constitutes a change in scope or results
in the transfer of substantive programmatic work to a foreign component.
- Cost-related prior approvals, including patient care and equipment. Requirements
for NIH approval of incurrence of these costs, including rebudgeting for
them, do not apply under expanded authorities unless they constitute
a change in scope.
Contacts
Grantees with questions should contact the appropriate grants management specialist listed on their Notice of Award.
Staff, see GMP
Assignments by Geographic Region and Program Code for the appropriate
GMP specialist.
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Links
Grantees Can Take Many Actions Independently in the NIH Grant Cycle: Application to Renewal
NIH
grants policy statement, expanded authorities, December 2003
NIH
grants policy statement, prior approval requirements, December 2003
No-Cost Extension SOP
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