NIH Announces New Centralized Processing Center for Receipt of Grant Closeout Documents

NIH Announces New Centralized Processing Center for Receipt of Grant Closeout Documents

Via a Notice from the Office of the Director released April 2, the National Institutes of Health announced a new business process utilizing a centralized processing center for receipt of closeout documents for all NIH grants and cooperative agreements. This centralized office can receive and process reports submitted by regular US mail, courier and overnight services, as well as by e-mail and fax. The office also processes information submitted electronically through the “Closeout” feature in the eRA Commons.

NIH expects that this new centralized business process will improve efficiency and service to the grantee community. Effective immediately, all non-financial closeout documents (such as the final progress report and HHS 568 Final Invention Statement and Certification) that are not submitted through the eRA Commons must be submitted to the following address:

NIH Centralized Processing Center
6705 Rockledge Drive
RM 2207, MSC 7987
Bethesda, MD 20892 (for regular or US Postal Service Express mail)
Bethesda, MD 20817 (for other courier/express deliveries only)
E-mail: DeasCentralized@od.nih.gov Fax: (301) 480-2304

Note that this does not include submission of the SF269 Financial Status Report which will continue to require electronic, online submission through the eRA Commons. See NIH Guide Notice NOT-OD-07-078 for more information on this requirement. For more information on the NIH closeout processing center, please contact the center directly at DeasCentralized@od.nih.gov or at (301) 594-6584. For more information on grants policy and closeout requirements, please visit: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/policy.htm or e-mail GrantsPolicy@mail.nih.gov.

Source: NIH Guide, NOT-OD-08-61, http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-061.html