Request to Convert Grant to Cooperative Agreement Email Template
Related Extramural SOP: Conversion of Grants to Cooperative Agreements SOP
Instructions for the program officer:
- Copy the information in the box below to a new email message and fill in the fields as indicated.
- In addition to indicating that your division director has approved the conversion under Management Issues, have your division director sign a memo or write an email that documents his or her approval.
- Send the division director's approval and this request message to your division coordinator, who will forward it to Mary Kirker, Patricia Haggerty, and the grants management specialist for this grant.
- GMP will review and either request changes from the program officer or note approval and forward to Matthew Fenton for final approval.
- Matthew Fenton will send approval to Patricia Haggerty.
- Patricia Haggerty will do the following:
- Change the activity code in IMPAC II to the appropriate cooperative mechanism.
- Inform the program officer and grants management officer (Mary Kirker) of approval.
- Send the approved package including new grant number to assigned grants management specialist for action.
Request to Convert Grant to Cooperative Agreement
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Grant or Application Identifiers
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Grant Number
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Principal Investigator
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Project Title
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Award Date for Cooperative Agreement (should be start of new budget period)
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Justification for Conversion
Check one or more of the four reasons allowed by policy:
- The application is for a investigator-initiated clinical trial, prevention, education, or control intervention, or epidemiologic study in which direct costs exceed $500,000 in any year.
- NIAID holds the investigational new drug application and provides regulatory support to the awardee.
- There is more than minimal risk to study subjects in clinical studies and clinical trials.
- Dangerous biological agents are to be acquired, stored, modified, or used in NIAID-supported studies.
Provide one to two paragraphs describing the rationale for converting this grant to a cooperative agreement.
Management Issues
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Has division director approved conversion?
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Are additional funds available if costs of research will increase due to conversion?
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Have proposed terms and conditions of award been reviewed with grants management specialist for this award?
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Are division staff and other services to assist the awardee per terms and conditions of award adequate and will they be available in a timely manner?
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Have the principal investigator and institution been informed that this grant is to be converted to a cooperative agreement?
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Is this conversion acceptable to them?
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Attach draft terms and conditions of award:
GMP approval? Date of approval:
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