ASSIST Now an Option for All NIH Competing Grant Applications and Some Post-award Administrative Actions

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Notice Number: NOT-OD-16-042

Key Dates
Release Date: December 22, 2015

Related Announcements
NOT-OD-16-023
NOT-OD-15-156
NOT-OD-15-126
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NOT-OD-15-098
NOT-OD-15-062
NOT-OD-15-044
NOT-OD-13-075

Issued by
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Purpose

This Notice informs the community that we have reached our goal to open up ASSIST as an option for the preparation, submission and tracking of all single-project grant applications to NIH (NOT-OD-15-044).

Throughout 2015, ASSIST support expanded to a variety of grant programs according to a defined timeline which is now complete.

ASSIST is now an option for:

• all single and multi-project, competing grant applications;
• single-project administrative supplements;
• single-project, post-award successor-in-interest (type 6) requests; and
• single-project, post-award change of institution (type 7) requests.

Funding opportunity announcements posted in the NIH Guide for Grants & Contracts that allow ASSIST as an option contain an "Apply Online Using ASSIST" button in addition to the "Apply Using Downloadable Forms" button.

Use of ASSIST is optional; Grants.gov downloadable forms and institutional system-to-system solutions remain viable alternatives for application preparation and submission to NIH (learn more about options).

Background

ASSIST provides users:

• Secure web-based data entry
• Control over application access
• Collaboration of multiple users
• Pre-submission validation of many NIH and Grants.gov business rules
• Pre-population of data from eRA Commons profiles
• Pre-submission print/preview of application in NIH format
• Submission status tracking for both Grants.gov and eRA Commons within a single system
• Ability to import subaward budget forms
• Ability to copy application data from a previously prepared application

Resources

• Getting Started: Preparing Your Single-project Application Using ASSIST
• Getting Started: Preparing Your Multi-project Application Using ASSIST
• ASSIST Online Help System
• ASSIST User Guide
• eRA Service Desk

Inquiries

Direct inquiries regarding this Notice to:

NIH Grants Information
Email: [email protected] (preferred method of contact)
Telephone: 301-945-7573

Direct requests for ASSIST support to:

eRA Service Desk
Submit a web ticket (preferred method of contact)
Toll-free: 1-866-504-9552

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NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices

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