Costs submitted in budget requests in NIH grant proposals must be spent during the granting period, not before or after. 

Budgets can include: 

• Costs for curating data and developing supporting documentation. 
• Unique or specialized infrastructure necessary to provide local management and preservation.
• Costs associated with preserving and sharing data through established repositories during the award period. 

Budgets cannot include: 

• Infrastructure or indirect costs that are already part of institutional overhead. 
• Costs of doing research such as costs associated with collecting, purchasing or gaining access to research data. 

References: Supplemental Policy Information, “Allowable Costs for Data Management and Sharing"