COI Review for Other Support/Current & Pending Support and Foreign Components

New COI Review Process at JIT and RPPR stages in response to NIH Notice NOT-OD-19-114, which provided clarifications on Other Support, FCOI and Foreign Components

 

Proposal and/or JIT Stage

  • A COI review for Other Support/Current and Pending Support and Foreign Components for all senior/key personnel on a project will be conducted at JIT stage for Federal submissions.
  • The URA Pre-Award Grants Specialist (GS) will prompt the COI Office to conduct a COI review for Other Support/Current & Pending Support, Foreign Components via Ancillary Review in AURA.
  • After review, the COI Office will send an email outside of AURA to the Departmental Administrative Contact (AC) and the URA Pre-Award GS with instructions to add information to the senior/key personnel’s Other Support/Current & Pending Support and Foreign Components.
  • The COI Office will also submit the Ancillary Review in AURA to complete the process.
  • The AC will work with senior/key personnel to ensure that their documentation includes the items cited by the COI Office.
  • The URA Pre-Award GS will review the Other Support/Current and Pending Support document and review for any items cited by the COI office.
  • Signature logs for all OS/C&P documents for UofC investigators must be uploaded to Attachments>JIT Agency/Sponsor Request or Other Pre-Award Documents for JIT requests and Attachments>Other Internal Documents for proposals that require OS/C&P documents.
 

RPPR Stage

  • When URA sends out the Monthly RPPRs Due list to campus, the COI Office will review disclosures for all senior/key personnel.
  • COI Office will email the Unit (PC-O role) and cc’ the post-award RA with information from the disclosures that relate to Other Support/Current and Pending Support and Foreign Components.
  • The Unit will work with senior/key personnel to ensure that their RPPR includes the items cited by the COI Office.
  • The URA Post-Award RA will review the Other Support/Current and Pending Support document and review for any items cited by the COI office.
  • “No news is good news”.
  • Turnaround time will be within two weeks of URA’s email with Monthly RPPRs Due.