eRA (Electronic Research Administration) SBIR Public Briefing

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eRA (Electronic Research Administration) SBIR
Public Briefing

• March 4, 2002
• Jerry Stuck

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Agenda

• Welcome
• Overview of eRA SBIR Opportunity Jerry Stuck
• Overview of eRA Project Jerry Stuck
• NIH Electronic Research AdministrationNIH
  Commons Interface to the Extramural Grantee
  Community George Stone, Ph.D.
• Introduction to Data Standards Paul Markovitz
• Questions and Answers

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Overview of eRA SBIR Opportunity

• Jerry Stuck
• Coordinator of Commons Activities
• eRA Project

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Background - NIH Grants

• 13.5 Billion in FY2000
• 50,000 Grantees Worldwide
• Applicants submit 47,000 competing research and
  research training applications each year

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Background NIH Grantees

• In FY2000, NIH provided research support to
• gt2,500 institutions, universities, medical
  schools, research institutes, and for-profit and
  not-for-profit organizations
• gt1M to 663 institutions
• gt10M to 200 institutions
• gt100M to 40 institutions

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Background eRA Project

• Electronic research administration (eRA) is NIHs
  infrastructure for conducting electronic
  transactions for the receipt, monitoring, and
  administration of NIH grant awards to biomedical
  investigators worldwide
• eRA integrates two parallel systems NIH Commons
  and IMPAC II
• NIH Commons is the external grantee customer
  interface
• IMPAC II is the internal NIH customer interface

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eRA Objective Full Electronic Grants
Administration
100,000 Applicants / 2,200 Grantee Institutions
Worldwide
100,000 Applicants / 2,000 Grantee Institutions
Worldwide
IMPAC II
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NIH Transactional Database
IMPAC II
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NIH Transactional Database
1.6 million transactions daily
3,500 Users from OD ICs
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Research Objectives

• A large number of NIH grantee organizations will
  not independently develop capabilities to
  interact fully with NIH Commons
• Purpose is to stimulate the development of
  applications and services that could be purchased
  by or licensed to these NIH grantee organizations

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Research Objectives

• This opportunity is NOT intended to support the
  development of software or services for the NIH
  eRA Project
• eRA Project is funded and supported by existing
  NIH staff and contractors

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Research Objectives

• NIHs intention is to receive datastream input
  from grantee organizations based on
  government-wide data standards
• XML DTD
• Grant Applications and Notice of Grant Awards
• Grants Data Dictionary www.fedcommons.gov/Docs/da
  ta.html
• Expect to refine data standards while working
  with SBIR awardees and other federal and customer
  groups

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Research Objectives

• NIH Services
• Register with the NIH Commons
• Create and Update Organizational and Professional
  Profiles
• Submit Competitive Grant Applications
• Check Status of pending actions
• Submit Non-competing progress reports
• Submit Invention Disclosures
• Receive Notice of Grant Award

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Certification

• Certification process will be developed working
  with Phase II awardees
• Resulting in Certification of software/services
  developed by Phase II awardees
• Certification could be given for applications
  that perform some, but not all, Commons functions