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NIH requires recipients to submit a variety of reports which are due at specific times during the life cycle of a grant award. All reports must be accurate, complete, and submitted on time.
Progress Reports
NIH requires recipients to submit Research Performance Progress Reports (RPPR) through the eRA Commons at least annually as part of the non-competing continuation award process. The progress report must be approved by NIH to non-competitively fund each budget period within an approved project period.
The RPPR asks recipients about accomplishments towards the goal of the project, plans for the next year of the project, manuscripts and publications produced, personnel who have worked on the project, changes to level of effort of key personnel on the project, actual or planned challenges or delays in the projects and plans for resolving them, significant changes regarding human or animal subjects, inclusion enrollment reports for clinical studies, and more.
Invention Reports
Regulations require that recipient organizations report all inventions to the awarding agency (), as well as include an acknowledgement of federal support in all patents. Recipient organizations must use the Interagency Edison (iEdison) system to comply with the Bayh-Dole Act and related intellectual property reporting requirements.
Final Invention Statement
When a grant is completed and a subsequent competing segment is not funded, or when a grant is transferred from one institution to another, a Final Invention Statement and Certification (HHS 568) must be submitted to the NIH within 120 days. For grants that are closing out, the Final Invention Statement and Certification can be submitted along with the other required closeout documents through the eRA Commons. For transfers, the HHS 568 should be submitted directly to the NIH awarding Institute or Center. Get downloadable versions of the HHS 568.
Federal Financial Report (FFR)
The Federal Financial Report (FFR) is used to submit financial information about individual grant awards. The FFR is required on an annual basis, except for domestic awards under the Streamlined Noncompeting Award Process (SNAP) and awards that require more frequent reporting as indicated in the Notice of Award. When required on an annual basis, the report must be submitted for each budget period no later than 90 days after the end of the calendar quarter in which the budget period ends.