Termination
Ending an award before its period of performance is over. It can be by the funder for cause or for convenience, by mutual agreement, or by the recipient giving notice, and each route has different consequences for costs already incurred.
Part of the GrantTrove grant funding glossary — one entry for every field the catalogue stores.
Also called Award termination
In detail
Termination for cause follows non-performance or non-compliance and is reported, which affects later risk assessments. Termination for convenience reflects a change in the funder’s circumstances and carries no such implication.
Costs properly incurred before termination are generally still allowable, along with reasonable costs of winding down. Costs incurred after notice usually are not.
Against a closed opportunity
A closed opportunity is a notice whose application window has ended. A terminated award is a funded project stopped early. They share no field and no meaning, and `status` on a record refers only to the first. A record moving to closed says the window shut, not that anything went wrong.
How GrantTrove stores it
- `status` distinguishes forecasted, active, closed and archived records, and a record is not moved on a single failed check.
- Where an entire source is failing, the crawler trips a circuit breaker and changes no record’s status at all, because a broken feed is evidence about the feed rather than about every programme on it.
Common questions
Can we walk away from an award?
Generally with notice, under the award terms. It is better negotiated than announced.
Do we repay everything?
Usually not. Properly incurred costs before termination normally stand.
Does a closed listing mean an award was terminated?
No. Closed means the application window ended.