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Grants and Contracts

Issued by: National Institutes of Health Beginning with streamlined noncompeting award process (SNAP) progress reports due on/after August 1, 2010, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will require the use of the Electronic Research Administration (eRA) Commons electronic SNAP (eSNAP) module for the submission of all SNAP progress reports. Concurrently, NIH is expanding the SNAP provisions, described later, to all SNAP awards. The eRA eSNAP enables grantees to submit an electronic version of the SNAP type 5 (noncompeting) progress report through the eRA Commons. Grantees should refer to the ‘‘Notice of Award,’’ under Section II ‘‘Terms and Conditions,’’ to determine whether SNAP provisions apply to a particular award. In general, this streamlined process applies to all R series grant activity codes except for Outstanding Investigator grants (R35s), phase 1 small business innovation research (SBIR) grants (R43), and phase 1 small business technology transfer (STTR) grants (R41). For phase 1 SBIR/STTR awards that exceed 1 year and phase 2 SBIR/STTR, grantees should review the Notice of Award to determine if their project is subject to or excluded from the SNAP provisions. Career award activity codes are also routinely covered under SNAP. Those activity codes routinely excluded from SNAP are generally those that do not have the authority to automatically carry over unobligated balances (centers, cooperative agreements, institutional training including Kirschstein National Research Service Award [NRSA] grants and nonYfasttrack phase 1 SBIR and STTR awards), clinical trials (regardless of activity codes), program project grants (P01s), and Outstanding Investigator grants (R35s). Streamlined noncompeting award process instructions for submitting the progress report appear in the Public Health Service (PHS) 2590 Non-Competing Continuation Progress Report under Section 2.1: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/ 2590/2590.htm. Electronic SNAP is the electronic submission of SNAP progress reports. This eRA Commons tool is based on the data collected in the PHS 2590. When eSNAP was first developed, it pilot tested a few additional provisions that are now being included as permanent provisions of all NIH SNAP progress reports. See the eSNAP eRA web page http://era.nih. gov/services_for_applicants/reports_and_closeout/esnap.cfm for additional information. The SNAP provisions are hereby expanded to include the following: 1. Streamlined noncompeting award process progress reports will be due 45 days before the next budget start date instead of 60 days. 2. Institutional review board (IRB) and Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee approval dates will not be required as part of each progress report submission. However, it remains an institutional responsibility to ensure that these reviews are conducted in accordance with all federal requirements. The Federalwide (human subjects) and Animal Welfare Assurance numbers will continue to be maintained in the Institutional profile section of the eRA Commons. Approval dates must be submitted to the NIH upon request. 3. The grantee may delegate authority to the project director/ principal investigator (PD/PI) to submit the progress report directly to NIH. This is an optional delegation authority available in the eRA Commons eSNAP tool.