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Targeted Planned/Enrollment Data: Provides race and ethnicity data for projected number of human subject participants to be enrolled in an NIH-funded clinical research study. The data is provided in competing applications and annual progress reports.
TEC: See Technical Evaluation Criteria.
Technical Evaluation Criteria (TEC): The Technical Evaluation Criteria published in every RFP are the only criteria reviewers can use in evaluating a contract proposal’s technical merits. TEC direct the reviewers’ attention toward factors critical to completing the project successfully. They are listed in order of their importance and are weighted to convey the relative importance of each factor and provide a numerical score framework.
Technical Evaluation Panel (TEP): The NCI convenes a Special Emphasis Panel (SEP) to review proposals that respond to a specific RFP. When an SEP convenes to review contract proposals, it is referred to as a Technical Evaluation Panel. TEPs evaluate proposals according to the Technical Evaluation Criteria stated in the RFP. Based on the TEC, reviewers determine each proposal’s strengths and weaknesses, providing written documentation of the reasons for the evaluation, scoring the proposals, and recommending them to be deemed either technically acceptable or technically unacceptable.
Temporary Member: A special reviewer invited to serve on a study section/SRG when NIH staff determine there is a need for additional expertise.
TEP: See Technical Evaluation Panel.
Terms and Conditions of Award: All legal requirements imposed on a grant by NIH, whether based on statute, regulation, policy, or other document referenced in the grant award or specified by the grant award document itself. The Notice of Grant Award may include both standard and special conditions that are considered necessary to attain the grant’s objectives, facilitate postaward administration of the grant, conserve grant funds, or otherwise protect the Federal Government’s interests.
Total Project Costs: The total allowable costs (direct costs and facilities and administrative costs) incurred by the grantee to carry out a grant-supported project or activity. Total project costs include costs charged to the NIH grant and costs borne by the grantee to satisfy a matching or cost-sharing requirement.
Traditional Research Project Award (R01): An award that supports discrete, specified, circumscribed projects to be performed by named investigators in areas representing their specific interest and competencies.
Training Awards: Awards designed to support the research training of scientists for careers in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, and to help professional schools establish, expand, or improve programs of continuing professional education. Training awards consist of institutional training grants (T) and individual fellowships (F).
Triage: See Streamlining.
