The National Health and Medical Research Council advises “it is aware” that there are overdue milestones for some grants in the Sapphire management system

But not to worry it’s a system error, which will be fixed and not impact on new grant applications.

There is also a backlog of grantee variations, due in part to “development work” on Sapphire, which seems to be taking a while to get going. Back in 2019, Senate Estimates heard the system was originally budgeted to cost $5.8m but by then $16.2m had been allocated to, “a beast that is evolving,” (CMM October 30 2019).