Notice Number: NOT-OD-15-088
Key Dates
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Issued by
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Purpose
This Notice is to inform NIH applicants and grantees that NIH's ability to issue competing and non-competing awards may be delayed for two weeks from May 19, 2015 until June 3, 2015. During this time, a series of software upgrades will be made to NIH accounting and business systems that have wide-reaching impacts across the NIH. These also connect to NIH grant-making systems, and while every effort will be made to minimize the expected downtime, it may take up to two weeks to complete all the work.
Extramural research activities that will be impacted by the outage:
Extramural research activities that NIH does not expect to be impacted by the outage:
Additionally, eRA systems will be performing a software upgrade on May 23, 2015. During this eRA downtime expected to last up to 12 hours, the following functions will not be available, but they will return and remain available throughout the rest of the two-week upgrade period.
The anticipated delay in making awards will not change the terms and conditions of any future or existing awards. Grantees will retain the ability to incur pre-award obligations and expenditures up to 90 days before the budget period start date at their own risk throughout this period. See the NIH Interim Grant General Conditions (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/NIH%20Interim%20Grant%20General%20Conditions.pdf) and the Grants Policy Statement for more details on this authority (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/nihgps_2013/nihgps_ch7.htm#preaward_preagreement_costs).
Additional information on this downtime will be published as it becomes available.
Inquiries
Please direct all inquiries to:
Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration (OPERA)
Office of Extramural Research (OER)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Telephone: 301-435-0949
Email: [email protected] (preferred method of contact)