NIH grant management system

ASSIST website is created to prepare and submit multi-project grant applications electronically to NIH and other Public Health Service agencies.

Client

NIH electronic Research Administration (eRA) provides applicants, grantees and federal staff the tools necessary for electronic processing of grants. The ASSIST website is created to prepare and submit multi-project grant applications electronically to NIH and other Public Health Service agencies

Objective

Majority of grant applications processed by eRA are submitted by a single research institute. However, a small part of application flow can be sponsored by multiple organizations and comprise a complex application. eRA required to enhance its systems infrastructure to be able to accept and process these complex applications for the entire grant lifecycle.

Solution

Achievion Solutions designed architecture of the ASSIST application which is responsible for intake of complex applications. The architecture was developed using SOA best practices to communicate with other internal eRA systems via Web Services protocol. Achievion team also led development and testing of one of the internal modules that downloads complex applications from Grants.gov system and decomposes it for downstream processing.

Result

The successful implementation reinforced eRA’s position as a leading grants management provider in the Federal Government, ensuring efficient processing of complex applications for the entire grant lifecycle.