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No-Cost Extension

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What is the purpose?

No-Cost Extension at NIHThe No-Cost Extension feature, accessed via eRA Commons, is an electronic means for a grantee organization to electronically submit a notification that they have exercised their one-time authority to extend without funds the final budget period of a project period of a grant. This extension can be up to 12 months in additional time. This assumes all internal review and approval processes at the grantee organization have already taken place.

No-Cost Extension is a feature only used by NIH at this time.

What are the benefits?

Who can use this feature?

Signing Officials at the grantee organization.



This page last reviewed: January 23, 2009