Updated NIH Process for No-Cost Extensions Effective immediately, the NIH has re-enabled the no-cost extension (NCE) functionality within eRA Commons. As a result, UCLA’s Office of Contract and Grant Administration (OCGA) is once again able to approve first no-cost extensions directly in eRA Commons. NIH will not review first-time NCE requests previously submitted through the Prior Approval module that have … Read More

This is a reminder that proposals to government and other non-profit entities for research, training, fellowships, and other sponsored activities require review and approval for submission by the Office of Contract and Grant Administration (OCGA). Proposals and supporting internal documents are due to the OCGA Proposal Intake Team through the EPASS System five working days before they need to be submitted electronically … Read More

NIH First No Cost Extension The NIH link for an automatic first No Cost Extension (NCE) is currently disabled. While there has been no official communication about this from NIH, we are hearing from the eRA helpdesk that they were instructed to ‘temporarily disable it for all projects’.  At this time, if you are planning a first NCE, be prepared to … Read More

NIH recently issued information regarding the salary limitation for NIH grant and cooperative agreement awards and extramural research and development contract awards. Effective January 1, 2025, the salary limitation for Executive Level II is $225,700. For active awards (continuation and new) that were restricted to Executive Level II, if adequate funds are available, and if the salary cap increase is … Read More

NIH Postponing the May 2025 Common Forms Implementation Just after RAF today, we became aware that NIH has announced a postponement of the May 25, 2025, implementation of the Common Forms for all applications and Research Performance Progress Reports (RPPRs). NIH will issue future Guide Notices outlining the new effective date and additional implementation details as they are finalized. NIH … Read More

We are happy to report that the Organization Credentials sign-in method (UCLA SSO) is operational again in NSF’s Research.gov. Thank you for your patience during this time.

This is a reminder that proposals to government and other non-profit entities for research, training, fellowships, and other sponsored activities require review and approval for submission by the Office of Contract and Grant Administration (OCGA). Proposals and supporting internal documents are due to the OCGA Proposal Intake Team through the EPASS System five working days before they need to be submitted electronically … Read More

The vendor has confirmed that today’s S2S Grants system issues have been resolved. Please contact eRAHelp@research.ucla.edu if you are still experiencing any issues with S2S Grants. Thank you for your collaboration, patience and understanding.

We have reported various system issues impacting S2S Grants: validation services unavailable, non-responsive budget fields, and auto-calculations not functioning. The vendor has identified the issue and will be taking the system down temporarily to apply a fix. Thank you to everyone who reached out to eRA Help to report an issue. We will keep everyone posted as to when the system is … Read More

While Cayuse works to restore IDC information in S2S Grants, we are providing information on how to re-populate IDC information into an application that has been affected by the current issue.  Here is a screenshot of the issue in a live application: Due to the ongoing issue, the auto-fill functionality is not working as effectively as usual, so we have … Read More