Throughout the life of your GSA Schedule, you will need to make several updates to reflect changes with GSA, your offerings, and company. Why Should You Modify Your GSA Schedule Contract?Īs previously mentioned, once contractors are awarded a GSA Schedule contract, it can last up to 20 years. We’ll cover the main modifications you’ll need to be aware of as a GSA contractor. There are multiple forms of GSA Schedule modifications that contractors can choose to make once their Schedule has been awarded, as well as some modifications that contractors are required to accept when GSA announces certain updates. They will need to be altered through a contract modification. Your offerings, pricing, and administrative information are not locked in with your initial award. While your Schedule can last up to two decades, it’s meant to grow with you. GSA Schedule contracts can last for 20 years, starting with a 5-year base period followed by three additional 5-year option periods. If you need help identifying a study section appropriate to your investigator-initiated research, follow our instructions to Contact an NIAID Program Officer.Once you have your GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), it can stay with your company for a long time.
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Going forward, CSR will monitor the new study sections to ensure NIH’s high standards for scientific review quality are upheld. It’s important that your application’s peer reviewers possess expertise appropriate for evaluating the scientific aims of your project while NIH relies on automated processes and referral staff to guide application assignment, you may suggest a study section that matches your area of research. The key reason that you, as an applicant for research funding in these areas, should review the guidelines linked above is that you can Use the PHS Assignment Request Form to help steer your investigator-initiated application to an optimal study section. Refer to ENQUIRE Cluster 7-Molecular and Cellular Basic Sciences: Published Study Section Guidelines and ENQUIRE Cluster 17-Epidemiology and Population Sciences: Published Study Section Guidelines, respectively. The updated arrangement of scientific expertise is documented in ENQUIRE Cluster 14-Microbiology and Infectious Diseases: Published Study Section Guidelines.ĬSR carried out the same process for two other clusters of study sections relevant to NIAID researchers: Molecular and Cellular Basic Sciences and Epidemiology and Population Sciences. Standing members of the initial 10 study sections will be placed on the new or modified panels based on their scientific expertise. Across the cluster, CSR refined the study section descriptions to provide transparency and improve their usefulness as referral guidelines for application assignments. Several study sections have been renamed to reflect shifting scientific priorities. Where there were 10 study sections before, there are now 11. Recently, CSR turned its attention to Microbiology and Infectious Diseases study sections. Learn more about the process A Brief Background of Study Section Evaluation and an Introduction to ENQUIRE. Changes to study sections can include sunsetting study sections, modifying guidelines of current study sections, and formation of new panels.
Recommendations are then presented to CSR’s Advisory Council for input and approval. The internal panel determines whether the panels function in a way that supports the optimal identification of high-impact science.
The internal panel considers the recommendations of the external panel as well as information on the function of the study sections, such as reports from site visits. Next, CSR convenes an internal panel comprising NIH program staff. The external evaluation panel then assesses whether the scope of existing study sections is optimal to identify the most promising research. An external evaluation panel of senior scientists, with expertise spanning multiple study sections, receives data on the panels under evaluation, current study section guidelines, and sample abstracts and aims. The ENQUIRE process relies heavily on bibliometric data, early-stage investigator submission and success rates, as well as stakeholder input.
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