ASSIST for the Submission of NIH Administrative Supplements

Beginning Saturday, July 25, 2020, the use of ASSIST for the submission of administrative supplements will be expanded. Paper submissions and the previous “streamlined” process within eRA Commons that permitted administrative supplement requests to be submitted directly to the awarding agency without having to go through Grants.gov, will no longer be accepted.

As of this date, there will be three methods for initiating an administrative supplement through eRA systems:

• Initiate in ASSIST, enter the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for an administrative supplement and enter information manually;
• Initiate in ASSIST and after entering the Federal ID number of the parent grant award, some of the information from the parent award is prepopulated;
• Initiate through eRA Commons and after identifying a specific grant for administrative supplement, be directed by the system to ASSIST where some information from the parent award is prepopulated.

For more information, see NIH eRA Information: Use of ASSIST Expanded for Submission of Administrative Supplements.

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July 1, 2020 Research Advocate: Update to NIH Administrative Supplement Policies