Reminder to include COVID-19 impacts/disruptions to Sponsors in progress reports
NIH has issued clear guidance that COVID-19 impacts and disruptions to their funded projects should be reported in your next progress report (RPPR) submission. This is covered in detail in NIH’s COVID-19 FAQs (see Section IV).
While other sponsors have not necessarily issued clear guidance as NIH, we believe this is a best practice to follow across all funders, federal and non-federal. Your required progress reports are an opportunity to document the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic to sponsors and open up the line of communication should future accommodations be necessary due to the disruption in work, such as potential no-cost extensions or requests for supplemental funding should they become available.
Please remember submitting accurate and on-time progress reports is an obligation we have as recipients of sponsored research. If you are in the last year of your award and in a position to know you will need a NCE please coordinate with your SP RA.
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