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There has been a significant increase in the number of grant applications NIH has funded late in the Federal Government’s fiscal year. The resultant clustering of projects in the third and fourth quarters (April through September) has created serious backlogs for NIH grantee staff responsible for the preparation, submission, review and negotiation of grants and cooperative agreements. Some NIH Institutes now plan to reset/recycle competing and non-competing projects out of the third and the fourth quarters in order to distribute them more evenly throughout the fiscal year.
Resetting or recycling a grant's start date means NIH is shortening the duration of the first year of your grant. The date for the beginning of year two then becomes your new anniversary date for future events, such as the due date for your progress report and time to resubmit your competing continuation application. In some years, such as FY 2005, grantees will see an effect on their budgets.
So far, we’ve heard that NIAID and NCI will be recycling their grant start dates.
If you have an NIAID grant for longer than three years (one and two year grants are not affected), you will be subject to one of two procedures, depending when your grant is approved for funding.
Three-Month Rollback:
Six-Month Rollback:
If you have an NCI grant, beginning with any remaining May 1 start dates,
NCI will provide 12 months of funding, but only a 10 month budget period for
the awards included in the recycling effort. This principle will be applicable
to both the grantee and any subcontracts to the project.
Remaining type 1 R01 grants that were approved under the NCAB expedited process
will be issued as soon as possible and given a June 1 start date. NCAB expedited
type 2 R01 grants will be issued with their standing start date and provided
12 months of funding, but only a 10 month budget period.
A Term of Award will be placed on each recycled award to explain the impact
of the recycling on the budget and project periods. A separate Term will be
used to explain the impact on the review cycle for those projects where the
competing application due date will be a round earlier.
This procedure will affect the next competing renewal (Type 2s) review cycle
for projects that have FY'05 budget periods beginning in May, July and August.
Specifically, the competing renewal applications for recycled awards issued
in FY'05 with a start date in May would normally be due at NIH by July 1.
Under the FY’05 recycling plan, these renewal applications will be due
at NIH by the March 1 deadline. The competing renewal applications for recycled
awards issued in FY'05 with a start date in July or August would normally
be due at NIH by November 1. Under the FY’05 recycling plan, these renewal
applications will be due at NIH by the July 1 deadline.
The recycling plan will not affect the next review cycle for projects with
FY'05 budget periods beginning in March, June or September.
If your new anniversary
date is reset to March 1, your
progress report will be due on January 15 if it's eSNAP or January 2 for
SNAP. (Progress reports are due 45 days before a grant's anniversary date
for eSNAP applications, 60 days for SNAP.)
To renew a grant ending on March 1, submit your renewal application by June
1, 2008, at the latest.
For information about other funding opportunities, visit the GrantSource Library.