Adjustments to NIH and AHRQ Grant Application Due Dates Between February 13 and February 18, 2015

Notice Number: NOT-OD-15-057

Key Dates
Release Date: January 27, 2015

Related Announcements
NOT-OD-15-058

Issued by
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Purpose

This notice informs the community of NIH and AHRQ application due date adjustments to accommodate scheduled federal system downtime. Grants.gov has a planned system outage from Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 12:01 AM ET to Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 6:00 AM ET (see Grants.gov calendar).

Due dates that fall on or between February 13 and February 18, 2015 will move to February 19, 2015.

Changes to Standard Due Dates

Activity Codes	Program Description	Original Due Date	New Due Date
R03, R21, R33, R21/R33, R34, R36 (new)	Other Research Grants	Feb. 16, 2015	Feb. 19, 2015

Changes for FOAs with Non-standard Due Dates

Funding Opportunity	Original Due Date	New Due Date
RFA-ES-15-005	February 13, 2015	February 19, 2015
RFA-ES-15-006	February 13, 2015	February 19, 2015
RFA-HL-15-021	February 13, 2015	February 19, 2015
RFA-HL-15-023	February 13, 2015	February 19, 2015
RFA-HL-15-031	February 13, 2015	February 19, 2015
RFA-HL-16-006	February 18, 2015	February 19, 2015
RFA-HL-16-007	February 18, 2015	February 19, 2015
RFA-HL-16-008	February 18, 2015	February 19, 2015
RFA-MH-15-300	February 17, 2015	February 19, 2015
RFA-MH-15-310	February 17, 2015	February 19, 2015
RFA-MH-15-320	February 17, 2015	February 19, 2015
RFA-MH-15-325	February 17, 2015	February 19, 2015
RFA-MH-15-330	February 17, 2015	February 19, 2015
RFA-MH-15-340	February 18, 2015	February 19, 2015
RFA-NS-15-002	February 18, 2015	February 19, 2015

Any Funding Opportunity Announcements not specifically mentioned above with a due date between February 13 and February 18, 2015 will also be due February 19, 2015.

Grants.gov is taking this extended outage to deploy their Release 14.0. Among the changes they plan to deploy is support for the full Unicode character set in the free-form text fields (e.g., Project Title, name, organization name) of their application forms. NIH implemented similar support in May 2014 (NOT-OD-14-071). Following Grants.gov's deployment, both Grants.gov and NIH will support the expanded characters in both free-form text fields and within PDF attachments. See

Inquiries

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Jill Mortali

Director, Office of Sponsored Projects

Dartmouth College

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