Enhancements and Validations in Development

Important:  We post our plans for upcoming enhancement and fixes well in advance of their delivery to help system-to-system service providers plan for their own development efforts. We try our best to keep these documents current as our plans evolve. Please keep in mind that these are *draft* documents and are subject to change at any time. 

 

Which opportunities are processed by NIH eRA systems/services?

We process applications posted in Grants.gov under the following Grants.gov agency codes:

  • HHS-NIH11
  • HHS-AHRQ
  • HHS-CDC-HHSCDCERA
  • HHS-FDA
  • HHS-SAMHS-SAMHSA
  • DOC-DOCNOAAERA
  • DOD-USUHS-ERA
  • VA-ORD

The XML Extract that Grants.gov publishes daily includes agency code ("HHS-NIH11") and agency name ("National Institutes of Health") information. Although NIH posts all opportunities under the same agency code and agency name, others may have one agency name used for multiple agency codes.

Validations

Production Validations in place.

Note: 
Though no change to documented validations, an implementation error has been identified with rule 005.48.2 that will be addressed in a mid-December 2023 release. Specifically, if any PD/PI on a multi-PD/PI application does not have the PI role on their eRA Commons account, then the validation fires for all PD/PIs (including those that do hold the PI role).

  • 005.48.2 - If credential is specified for a key person with a project role of PD/PI, the Commons account must have a PI role associated with it (may have other roles as well). [Error]
     

Planned Retirement of DUNS-based methods within SADS

Effective October 2023, eRA will no longer support the following DUNS-based methods within the Submission Agency Data Service (SADS) web service. Equivalent methods using UEI are available.

S2S Client Transaction Guide (PDF)

Retiring DUNS-based MethodsEquivalent UEI-based Methods
getOrganizationInfogetOrganizationInfoByUEI
getPersonInfogetPersonInfoWithUEI
getPersonInfoWithEmploymentgetPersonInfoWithEmploymentWithUEI
getPriorGrantInfogetPriorGrantInfoWithUEI
getSAMOrgInfogetSAMOrgInfoByUEI