NIH will Transition to Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR)

Progress reports are required annually to document grantee accomplishments and compliance with terms of award. They describe scientific progress, identify significant changes, report on personnel, and describe plans for the subsequent budget period or year.

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has mandated that federal agencies implement a federal-wide research performance progress report (RPPR) for submission of required annual or other interim performance reporting on research grant and cooperative agreement awards to standardize recipient reporting on federally-funded research projects.

Implementation of the RPPR

All NIH grantees will have the option to use the RPPR for Streamlined Non-competing Award Process (SNAP) and Fellowship progress reports beginning 10/19/2012. The use of the RPPR will not be required at this time and grantees may continue to use eSNAP or paper submissions as appropriate. A full list of activity codes for which grantees will be able to submit RPPRs as of 10/19/2012 appears below:

	Activity Codes
R01-like SNAPs	D71, DP1, DP5, G08, G11, G13, P40, R00, R01, R03, R18, R21, R33, R34, R36, R37, R56, RC1, RC2, RL1, S10, S21, S22, SC1, SC2, SC3, UB1, UC2, UH1, UH2, UH3, UP5, P01, P20, P30, P40, P41, P50, PL1, R24, S11, U01, U10, U19, U24, U34, U54
Individual K SNAPs	K01, K02, K05, K06, K07, K08, K18, K22, K23, K24, K25, K26, K99, KL1
Education SNAPs	D43, K30, R13, R25, RL5, T14, T36, U13, U2R
Fellowships	F05, F30, F31, F32, F33, F34, F37
SBIR/STTR SNAPs	R41, R42, R43, R44, U43, U44

For additional information and to watch a webinar, please go to NIH website.