Closed · PAR-22-081 · CFDA 93.351;93.859 · Discretionary

Limited Competition: Basic Instrumentation Grant (BIG) Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Federal grant opportunity posted by National Institutes of Health, cataloged on Grants.gov.

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Award range
Closed
Status
June 3, 2024
Close date
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Expected awards

The verdict

Limited Competition: Basic Instrumentation Grant (BIG) Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) is a closed discretionary listing from National Institutes of Health that offered Varies by applicant. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 12,419 other opportunities from National Institutes of Health.

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award range
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application status
93.351;93.859
CFDA program
12,419
other opportunities from National Institutes of Health

Archived opportunity record

Limited Competition: Basic Instrumentation Gr… is closed (last close June 3, 2024). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. National Institutes of Health still indexes 12,419 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

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Closed June 3, 2024

Posted Jan 7 Closes Jun 3

Instrument

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Description

The Basic Instrumentation Grant (BIG) Program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase a single high-priced, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. The BIG Program is limited to institutions that have not received S10 instrumentation funding of $250,001 or greater in any of the preceding 3 Federal fiscal years (FY). Use the following to determine applicable funding periods: for application due date of June 1, 2022, consider S10 funding in FYs 2019-2021; for application due date of June 1, 2023, consider S10 funding in FYs 2020-2022; for application due date of June 3, 2024, consider S10 funding in FYs 2021-2023. The minimum award is $25,000. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $250,000. Instruments supported include, but are not limited to, basic cell sorters, confocal microscopes, ultramicrotomes, gel imagers, or computer systems.

Campus–civic applicant bridge · 5 doors

Limited Competition: Basic Instrumentation Gr… bridges educational institutions with civic applicant types (5 doors: Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education; Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs); Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs); Private institutions of higher education; +1 more). Expect campus and public/nonprofit operators in the same printed set. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Health (HL). Only 197 other National Institutes of Health listings share this exact eligibility-code string (2% of 12,420).

Code 06
Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education
Code 12
Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs)
Code 13
Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs)
Code 20
Private institutions of higher education
Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

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