Some links will work for NIAID staff only.
|
Standard Operating Procedure Table of Contents
|
|
Purpose
To enable federal
agencies to fund awards requiring substantial involvement from
agency staff in the research.
Procedure
A cooperative
agreement is a grant in the U series that NIAID awards when it
expects substantial involvement from NIAID program
officers. See the difference between normal
involvement and substantial involvement.
NIAID may decide to award a new or renewal investigator-initiated clinical
trial or epidemiology study as a cooperative agreement.
For information on converting grants applications to cooperative agreements,
see the Conversion
of Grants to Cooperative Agreements SOP.
The NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) approves initiatives for
cooperative agreements before we submit them to the NIH Guide for publication.
Program Officers
Grantees and PIs
- If your clinical grant is to be changed to a cooperative agreement,
NIAID staff will contact you with the details.
Contacts
Grantees with questions should contact the appropriate program officer or grants management specialist, listed on their Notice of Grant Award. For more information, see Contact Staff for Help.
Contact for NIAID Staff
Contact for NIAID Staff
If you have knowledge to share or want more information on this topic, email deaweb@niaid.nih.gov with the title of this page or its URL and your question or comment. Thanks for helping us clarify and expand our knowledge base.
Links
Big
Grants SOP
Cooperative Agreement (CA) Kiosk
Early
Notification SOP
Early Notification
System Web page
Grants
management Infonet site for all NIH policy on cooperative agreements Web
page
Human Subjects SOPs
NIAID
Funding Policy and Process SOP
NIH
manual chapter 54815
Submission Guidelines and Templates for Publications in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
See the following RFAs for examples of Terms and Conditions of Award
for cooperative agreements:
Training
in the Protection of Human Subjects SOP
Definitions
- Normal staff involvement
- Ensuring compliance with general legislative, regulatory or administrative
assistance policy requirements.
- Approving receipt plans before award.
- Conducting site visits, if needed, to ensure project performance
is adequate.
- Evaluating scientific progress.
- Providing technical assistance at the PI's request.
- Facilitating interactions among grantees, e.g., organizing and
holding meetings.
- Temporary intervention in unusual circumstances to correct deficiencies
in a project.
- Closely monitoring high-risk institutions.
- Reviewing performance after completion.
- Substantial involvement
- Participating on committees, such as steering committees and sub-committees,
central to the activity.
- Participating in protocol design
or development.
- Helping to select contractors or other project staff.
- Coordinating or participating in data collection, analysis, and
interpretation.
- Coordinating or providing training of project staff in awardee
institutions.
- Participating in selection and approval of data analysis mechanisms.
- Approving a stage of a clinical trial or other collaborative project
before the next stage starts.
- Co-authoring papers.
- Providing Institute resources, including contractors.
- Helping with management and technical performance.
|