I had also heard that funding could be
reduced for continuing awards or even stopped completely due to $$ being needed
elsewhere. NIH’s award letters are suppose to have new language
indicating that, but I haven’t seen it yet. Has anyone seen such an
award letter? PIs should be careful about the amount they intend to “carry
over”. Tough times. I want the late 90’s back…plus
that would make me younger, too.
Bonnie Kwit
Grants & Contracts Officer
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It seems the rationale is that, due to inflation and other
factors, they will have less money to make new awards if they (NIH) are funded
at FY06 levels (i.e. flat funding). Their rationale, not mine.
Congress had indicated that, rather than fight over the remaining budget bills,
they will fund agenices whose budgets weren't passed by the election break at
FY 06 levels. In our case, the institute indicated that they
had an internal guide that would reduce large awards (over 400K ?) by 20% and
smaller awards by 15%. That is the message that we got from at least one
institute.
I would assume that this could vary significantly by NIH
institute.
R. Steven Etheredge, CRA
Director, Pre-Award Services
Sponsored Awards Management
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So why would that result in a 20% cut?