Federal agencies have strengthened enforcement of closeout requirements to include reporting information to the System for Award Management (SAM.gov). Federal agencies use this system to monitor grantees and may restrict future funding to the entire institution based on late reporting by an individual principal investigator.
The Chronicle of Higher Education published an article recently about this issue at UC San Diego:
Thank you to our grants and contracts community for your efforts to ensure sponsor requirements are met timely.
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