Request to Convert Grant to Cooperative Agreement Email

Related Extramural SOP: Conversion of Grants to Cooperative Agreements (staff-only link)

Instructions for the Program Officer

  1. Copy the information below to a new email message and fill in the fields as indicated.
  2. 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.
  3. Send the division director's approval and this request message to your division coordinator, who will forward it to Emily Linde, Chelsea Boyd, and the grants management specialist for this grant.
    • Grants Management Program (GMP) will review and either request changes from the program officer or note approval and forward to Kelly Poe for final approval.
    • Kelly Poe will send approval to Chelsea Boyd.
    • Chelsea Boyd will do the following:
      • Change the activity code in IMPAC II to the appropriate cooperative mechanism.
      • Inform the program officer and grants management officer of approval.
      • Send the approved package including new grant number to assigned grants management specialist for action.

Request to Convert Grant to Cooperative Agreement

Grant or Application Identifiers

  • Grant Number:
  • Principal Investigator:
  • Project Title:
  • Award Date for Cooperative Agreement (should be start of new budget period):

Justification for Conversion

Check one or more of the four reasons allowed by policy:

  • Investigator proposes an investigator-initiated clinical trial, a prevention, education, or control intervention, or an epidemiologic study for more than $500,000 in direct costs in any year.
  • NIAID holds the investigational new drug application and gives regulatory support to a grantee.
  • Subjects in clinical research have more than a minimal risk.
  • Grantees will acquire, store, modify, or use dangerous biological agents.
  • There is substantial involvement by an intramural scientist(s).

Provide one to two paragraphs describing the rationale for converting this grant to a cooperative agreement.

Management Issues

  • Has division director approved conversion?
  • Are additional funds available if costs of research will increase due to conversion?
  • Have proposed terms and conditions of award been reviewed with grants management specialist for this award?
  • 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?
  • Have the principal investigator and institution been informed that this grant is to be converted to a cooperative agreement?
  • Is this conversion acceptable to them?

Attach draft terms and conditions of award:

 

GMP approval?

Date of approval:

 

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