R3PEATS Grassroots Rigor Projects: Individual Metascience and Individual Laboratory Capacity-Building (RP1)

R3PEATS Grassroots Rigor Projects: Individual Metascience and Individual Laboratory Capacity-Building (RP1) is a forecasted federal grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the National Institutes of Health. The opportunity is associated with Assistance Listing 93.310, Trans-NIH Research Support, and is part of the NIH Common Fund's Rigor, Replicability, & Reproducibility to Promote Excellence, Accuracy, & Translation in Science, or R3PEATS, program. The opportunity is identified as RFA-RM-28-011 and is categorized as a discretionary grant within the Health funding activity category. The program is intended to support grassroots rigor projects that generate practical tools and shared knowledge designed to strengthen research practices. It supports two project types. Metascience projects are expected to develop and evaluate tools, metrics, guidelines, or infrastructure that promote high-quality research practices. Laboratory Capacity-Building projects are intended to help laboratories adopt new techniques or processes related to rigor and replicability while tracking and sharing factors that influence research outcomes. The forecast does not provide additional allowable-cost rules, prohibited expenditures, indirect cost limitations, subaward restrictions, or a stated period of performance. The opportunity has estimated total program funding of $5,600,000 and an expected 16 awards. The forecast does not state an award floor or award ceiling, so an individual award range cannot yet be determined from the available information. Cost sharing or matching is not required. Because individual award amounts and project duration are not provided, no per-award or multi-year funding calculation can be established from the forecast. Eligible applicants include county governments, city or township governments, state governments, special district governments, independent school districts, public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, other Native American tribal governments, and Native American tribal organizations. Eligible applicants also include nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status, excluding institutions of higher education from those nonprofit classifications; small businesses; other for-profit organizations; private institutions of higher education; and public and state controlled institutions of higher education. Additional eligible applicants identified in the forecast include eligible agencies of the federal government, U.S. territories or possessions, faith-based or community-based organizations, regional organizations, and non-domestic or foreign institutions. No individual U.S. state restriction is stated. This opportunity remains in the forecast stage, so detailed application mechanics and application components are not yet provided in the available notice. The estimated post date is July 1, 2027, and the estimated application due date is October 1, 2027. The source does not identify a letter of intent, concept paper, pre-proposal, notice of intent, or other pre-application gating requirement. It also does not provide application questions, required uploads, narrative requirements, review or evaluation criteria, registration instructions specific to submission, or other detailed submission requirements. The forecast was issued September 11, 2026 and was last updated September 11, 2026. The estimated award date is July 1, 2028, and the estimated project start date is July 1, 2028, for fiscal year 2028. No recurring or annual application cycle is stated, so recurrence cannot be established. Questions about the opportunity may be directed to the R3PEATS Program by email at R3PEATS@mail.nih.gov. No individual contact person or telephone number is identified in the source.

Metascience projects should center on practical tools, metrics, guidelines, or infrastructure that promote high-quality research practices. Laboratory Capacity-Building projects should address adoption of rigor- and replicability-related techniques or processes and include tracking and sharing of factors that influence research outcomes.