NCI Incentive Award
The NCI Incentive Award Program provides supervisors with a mechanism for recognizing employee performance or job accomplishments that might otherwise go unrecognized, in a manner which is both timely and cost effective. This program affords supervisors the opportunity to immediately recognize employees who exhibit commitment to and extra effort in the performance of their duties and in furthering the goals of the organization. It also allows NCI to grant awards which are at a fraction of the cost of comparable On-the-Spot (OTS) Awards and provides streamlined procedures for processing/tracking awards.
The NCI Incentive Award applies to all NCI employees except for persons engaged in training, fellowship and other programs since they are not considered Government employees (e.g. CRTA's, VF's, IPA's, contractors, etc...). Commissioned Corps Officers may receive NCI incentive awards up to $50 per calendar year from any one source.
Supervisors may nominate an employee or group of employees to receive an incentive award to recognize an aspect of performance or job accomplishments. If award items have been purchased in advance in bulk and are available for distribution, a log may be used as the award nomination/approval document by including the employee name and justification and by obtaining the required signatures. If an award item has not yet been purchased and the name of the awardee is known, Form NIH 1861, Purchase Request, may be used both as the employee nomination/approval document and to request the needed item(s). The Object Class Code that should be cited is 26.6Z.
The amount of the incentive award should be commensurate with the value of the employee’s contribution, but may not exceed $100. The award must be in a form appropriate to be used in the public sector and to be purchased with public funds. For example, incentive awards may be in the form of cups, gift checks, desk accessories, t-shirts, small food items, gift certificates, movie theater tickets, U.S. Savings Bonds, plaques, recognition certificates, trophies, etc.
The procedures for giving an employee(s) an Incentive Award may be found in the NCI Manual Issuance for Incentive Awards.
