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Standard Operating Procedure Table of Contents
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Purpose To enable NIAID
to achieve an average duration of four years for competing grants.
Procedure
Following its financial
management plan, NIAID sets policies that enable it to comply
with the four-year average grant length mandated by Congress.
The Institute favors five-year awards for standard
research project (R01) grants, and achieves the mandated award
duration by balancing the funding of complex grants for longer periods
with the funding of short-term R56-Bridge and
exploratory awards.
Our policy is as follows:
We do not skip a fiscal year in funding a grant except in the following cases:
- A renewal application is either deferred for a funding decision or can't be funded until the following fiscal year because of insufficient funds in the current year.
- A change of grantee causes a gap between the end of the original grant and the start of the grant at the new grantee institution.
- A project has suspended or significantly reduced activity due to an unanticipated situation.
- A fellowship award is not activated until two months or more into the next fiscal year.
NIH's grant duration limit is five years of funding. Waiving this limit requires approval at NIH or HHS level, requiring a very substantive justification.
In some fiscal years, the Institute also
sets policies to more evenly distribute grant funding throughout the
fiscal year. To accomplish
this, NIAID resets grant anniversary
dates for many new and renewal
grants. See the Resetting
Grant Start Dates questions and answers and the Resetting
Grant Anniversary Dates table for details on
the procedures and how they work.
Grantees
- Submit the following where applicable:
Program Officers
- If a study section removes years requested by an applicant, recommend restoring them if scientifically essential.
- Review noncompeting applications for satisfactory progress and document their review on the program officer checklist. If a grantee reports poor performance, work with the principal investigator and grants management specialist to determine the appropriate funding level.
- Work with the grants management specialist to determine the appropriate funding level for a noncompeting application if a substantial unobligated balance exists.
- Nominate a maximum of four years' support for the following applications that score beyond the payline:
- Selective
pay awards.
- End-of-fiscal
year awards.
- R01 applications responding to PAs.
Grants Management Specialists
- Ensure that awards are issued according to NIH and NIAID policy on the following:
- Work with program officers to issue an award at the appropriate funding level when scientific progress is poor or there is a substantial unobligated balance of funds.
Contacts
Mary Kirker, mk35h@nih.gov,
301-402-6400
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Links
Cooperative Agreements SOP
Multiproject
Awards (P01, P50, U19) SOP
Program Announcements SOP
NIAID R56-Bridge Award SOP
Requests for Applications SOP
Selective Pay SOP
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