Streamlined Non-competing Award Procedures (SNAP)

Streamlined Non-competing Award Procedures (SNAP) include a number of provisions that modify annual NIH progress reports, NoAs, and financial reports.

Your NIH Notice of Award (NOA) will specify whether an award is subject to SNAP. Awards routinely included in SNAP are "K" awards and "R" awards, except R35.

Awards excluded from SNAP are those that generally do not have the authority to automatically carry over unobligated balances (centers; cooperative agreements, Kirschstein-NRSA institutional research training grants, non-Fast Track Phase I SBIR and STTR awards), clinical trials (regardless of activity code), P01, R35, and awards to individuals. However, these grants can be included in SNAP on a grant-specific basis.

 In addition, specific awards may be excluded from SNAP if:

  • They require close project monitoring or technical assistance, e.g., high-risk recipients, certain large individual or multi-project grants, or grants with significant unobligated balances, or
  • The recipient has a consistent pattern of failure to adhere to appropriate reporting or notification deadlines.

See the NIH Grants Policy Statement (GPS) for more information about SNAP. 

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