Current & Pending (Other) Support

All federal research agencies and most other federal agencies and non-federal sponsors require investigators and project senior/key personnel to disclose in proposals and/or during the award process and over the lives of awards, all current and pending (other) resources made available in support of, or related to, all of their research.

Not properly disclosing all resources in accordance with a sponsor's requirements can have serious consequences. It is critical to closely review and adhere to each sponsor’s specific disclosure requirements.

SeRA Disclosures / Current and Pending Support Report

Anyone with an active SU Net ID can access SeRA to run the SeRA Disclosures / Current & Pending Support Report

Investigators and administrators can use the information in this report as the starting point for preparing a Current and Pending (Other) Support document and as an aid for Biosketches.  The report can also be exported in its entirety in either PDF or Excel formats for easy copying and pasting into the NIH Other Support Word template, SciENcv, etc.

NIH Other Support Support

NIH Disclosures - Stanford Guidance

• NIH Other Support Guidance

Updated September 15, 2025 - - The preview versions of the NIH Common Forms (Biosketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support) are Now available within SciENcv.  These preview documents will allow users to save, reopen, and edit the preview forms in the SciENcv module. However, the download PDF functionality will be disabled, and the form(s) and data entered into the preview versions will be deleted and no longer accessible once the official NIH Common Forms become available for preparation and submission, anticipated November 2025.  Under no circumstances may applicants or recipients use the preview documents for submissions to NIH. During this preview period, applicants and recipients must continue to use the current NIH Biosketch (generated either through SciENcv or NIH Form Library.docx templates) and Other Support Format Pages for all submissions to NIH until NIH’s official implementation of the Common Forms.  Review NOT-OD-25-152 to learn more.

The NIH's adoption of the Common Forms (Biosketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support) originally scheduled for May 25, 2025 is postponed with a new implementation date now anticipated to be in November 2025.  NIH will issue a subsequent Guide Notice to announce final details of Common Forms implementation.  Stay tuned for updates!

Upon implementation, the NIH will require all Senior/Key Personnel to link their ORCID iD into SciENcv to complete Common Forms and the NIH Biographical Sketch Supplement* to produce digitally certified PDFs for use in application submission. 

• Significant Other Support Changes:
  • Form Name Change from Other Support to Current and Pending (Other) Support.
  • Effort: Report only in Person Months rather than Calendar or Academic/Summer.
  • Major Goals changed to Overall Objectives.
  • In-Kind Contributions only must be reported if estimated value is at $5K or more and it requires a commitment of the individual's time.
  • Overlap now reportable on an individual entry basis.

• Reminder: Until the Common Forms are fully adopted by NIH, NIH requests applicants and recipients use the current NIH Biosketch and Other Support formats for applications, Just-in-Time (JIT) Reports, and RPPRs.

• Reminders of NIH Policies on Other Support and on Policies related to Financial Conflicts of Interest and Foreign Components - Notice NOT-OD-19-114
• FAQ - Other Support and Foreign Components
• SoM Guidance for Emphasized NIH/PHS Requirements for Disclosure of Foreign Relationships and Interactions
• NIH Policy & Compliance - Protecting U.S Biomedical Intellectual Innovation from Foreign Influence 

NSF Current & Pending Support

NSF Disclosures - Stanford Guidance

• The NSF requires information on all current and pending support for ongoing projects and proposals. Refer to PAPPG II.D.2.h(ii) for the full Current and Pending (Other) Support requirements.
• The NSF mandates the use of the common disclosure form for Current and Pending Support that is exclusively available in SciENcv.  The common form incorporates:
  • Each senior/key person is required to complete certifications regarding the information provided in their Current and Pending (Other) Support when they download the form from SciENcv.  Certification of disclosure documents must be completed by each senior/key person from their own SciENcv account and may NEVER be delegated.
  • Consulting activities must be disclosed under the proposals and active projects section of the common form when any of the following scenarios apply:
    • The consulting activity will require the senior/key person to perform research as part of the consulting activity;
    • The consulting activity does not involve performing research, but is related to the senior/key person’s research portfolio and may have the ability to impact funding, alter time or effort commitments, or otherwise impact scientific integrity; or
    • The consulting entity has provided a contract that requires the senior/key person to conceal or withhold confidential financial or other ties between the senior/key person and the entity, irrespective of the duration of the engagement.

    • Note: Under the proposals and active projects section of the common form the Total Anticipated Proposal/Project Amount field must be completed, even for consulting activities.  When a consulting activity that meets the criteria for NSF disclosure does and/or will NOT provide remuneration to the investigator, $0 is a valid entry for Total Anticipated Proposal/Project Amount field in SciENcv.  However, when a consulting activity that meets the criteria for NSF disclosure does and/or will provide remuneration to the investigator, the actual dollar amount the investigator does and/or will receive must be entered in the Total Anticipated Proposal/Project Amount field in SciENcv  Additionally, the number of person-months (or partial person-months) per year the investigator is and/or will devote to the consulting activity must be entered in the relevant Person Months field(s). 

  • In-kind resources that must be disclosed are limited to those with an estimated dollar value of $5000 or more and that require a commitment of the individual's time. An in-kind contribution is a non-cash contribution provided by an external entity that directly supports the individuals' research and development efforts. An in-kind contribution may include but is not limited to: real property; laboratory space; equipment; data or data sets; supplies; other expendable property; goods and services; employee or student resources. In-kind contributions with an estimated value of less than $5000 need not be reported.

The NSF and the NIH/National Library of Medicine hosted a webinar to discuss the revisions to Common Biosketch and Current & Pending (Other) support forms that are required by the NSF for proposals submitted on or after May 20, 2024, as well as provided a demonstration of the revised functionality to create and download these required proposal documents in SciENcv on April 24, 2024. The webinar recording is available at the NSF’s Policy Office Outreach website.

Additional NSF C&P Resources

• SciENcv Resources - Includes guidance for how investigators can delegate access to their SciENcv accounts to their administrators.
• NSF Current and Pending Support Website
• Pre-Award and Post-award Disclosures Relating to the Biosketch and Current and Pending Support Table - Updated May 2024
• NSF Policy-related questions should be directed to policy@nsf.gov

DoD Key Personnel Disclosures

DoD Disclosures - Stanford Guidance

DoE Key Personnel Disclosures

DoE Disclosures - Stanford Guidance

NASA Key Personnel Disclosures

NASA Disclosures - Stanford Guidance

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