Introduction
The National Institutes of Health Grants Policy Statement
(NIHGPS) is intended to make available to NIH grantees, in a single document,
the policy requirements that serve as the terms and conditions of NIH grant
awards. This document also is designed to be useful to those interested in NIH
grants by providing information about NIH—its organization, its staff, and its
grants process. The NIHGPS is available online from the NIH home page at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/policy.htm#gps.
NIHGPS Organization
The NIHGPS has three parts, which allows general
information, application information, and other types of reference material to
be separated from legally binding terms and conditions:
l Part
I: NIH Grants—General Information. Part I contains a glossary defining
commonly used terms and abbreviations used throughout the document; describes
NIH and its relationship to other organizations within the Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS); specifies grantee, NIH, and other HHS staff
responsibilities; outlines the grant application and review processes; and
explains the various resources available to those interested in the NIH grants
process.
l Part
II: Terms and Conditions of NIH Grant Awards. Part II includes generally
applicable terms and conditions. This part also specifies the terms and
conditions that apply to particular types of grants, grantees, and activities
that differ from, supplement, or elaborate on the standard terms and
conditions. These requirements, in separate sections, pertain to construction
grants, research training grants and fellowships, modular applications and
awards, conference grants, consortium agreements, grants to foreign and
international organizations (and grants with substantial foreign components
awarded to domestic organizations), grants to Federal institutions and payments
to (or on behalf of) Federal employees, grants to for-profit organizations, and
research patient care activities.
l Part
III: Points of Contact. Part III lists pertinent offices and officials with
their addresses and telephone numbers.
CONVENTIONS
Certain conventions are followed throughout this document.
The term “grant” is used to mean both grants and cooperative agreements;
however, for clarity, certain sections mention both grants and cooperative
agreements. The term “grantee” generally is used to refer to recipients of
grants and awardees of cooperative agreements; however the terms “recipient” or
“awardee” also are used. “NIH” may be used in this document to refer to the
entire organization or to its component organizations, or else to contrast an
action by NIH, including actions by its ICs, with an action by a grantee or
other organization. A reference to “Part II” or “Part III” without further
elaboration means the corresponding part of the NIHGPS.
SUPERSESSION
The NIHGPS was originally published with an effective date
of October 1, 1998. It was subsequently revised with an effective date of March
1, 2001. This revision of the NIHGPS, which is an update of the 2001
publication, has an effective date of December 1, 2003. It applies to all NIH
grants and cooperative agreements for budget periods beginning on or after
December 1, 2003. It remains largely unchanged; however, it incorporates several
new and modified requirements, clarifies certain policies, and emphasizes
policies that require increased attention by grantees on the basis of recent
developments. A number of the changes are ones that have been published since
March 2001 as notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts; others
implement recent changes in statutes, regulations, and policies. An explanation
of the major changes from the March 2001 NIHGPS is included in the NIH Guide
for Grants and Contracts notice announcing the reissuance of the NIHGPS.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
OPERA develops and maintains this document. Changes in
statutes, regulations, or policies that take effect before the next revision of
the NIHGPS will be published separately in the NIH Guide for Grants and
Contracts. Grantees are responsible for reviewing the NIH Guide for
Grants and Contracts, which is published on the NIH home page at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html, for changes and
for implementing them, as appropriate.
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