On July 22, 2020, NIH released news of ASSIST being expanded for submission of administrative supplements:
Beginning Saturday, July 25, 2020, the use of ASSIST for the submission of administrative supplements will be expanded. This release builds on the previous enhancements to ASSIST, outlined in ASSIST Has Been Streamlined to Support Easier Initiation and Submission of Administrative Supplements from April 7, 2020.
As of this date, there will be three methods for initiating an administrative supplement through eRA systems:
- Initiate in ASSIST, enter the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for an administrative supplement and enter information manually
- Initiate in ASSIST and after entering the Federal ID number of the parent grant award, some of the information from the parent award is prepopulated
- Initiate through eRA Commons and after identifying a specific grant for administrative supplement, be directed by the system to ASSIST where some information from the parent award is prepopulated