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NIH SREA MANAGEMENT AND SERVICE CENTER
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) distributes approximately 22 billion dollars a year in grant support for biomedical research. There are nearly 80,000 applications for funding received each year and the most promising biomedical research is identified through the system peer review.
Traditionally, committees of extramural scientists are requested to provide scientific expertise three times a year to evaluate and rate the scientific and technical merit of the research or research training in proposed grant applications. The volume of this enterprise is considerable and requires over 40,000 reviewers to serve on 2500 NIH expert committees per year.
The Center for Scientific Review and its NIH Scientific Review and Evaluation Activities (SREA) program are responsible for managing and evaluating costs associated with NIH peer review. The NIH SREA Management and Service Center coordinates the following:
- Processing of payment reimbursement reviewer for travel, hotel lodging, meals, incidentals and other approved costs beyond the allowed per diems;
- Approvals of hotel contracts and meeting arrangements to assure compliance with acquisition regulations;
- Processing of meeting invoices to NIH SREA contract providers;
- Customer service in problem resolution and responding to daily email inquires;
- Management of Blanket Purchase Agreements for NIH Hotel Services;
- Processing meeting rosters to assure timely payments; and
- Cost analysis of NIH SREA expenditures and comparison of trends.
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