Re: what is reasonable research office funding as a percent of grants? Bill Kirby 28 Feb 2002 09:50 EST

In response to inquiries about this data:

Preliminary Summary level data are available at
www.higheredbenchmarking.com. These data are in the "Research Management
Study Area" in the website. The data cover some of the key variables we
looked it including:

1. Pre Award Staffing, Workload indicators, Proposal Costs, Service Ratios
2. Post Award Staffing, Workload, Award Admin Costs, Service Ratios,
Accounts Receivable Ratios
3. Faculty Proposal Development and Participation, Award $ generation,
"Success" rates
4. Organizational Structure and reporting lines

More complete data summaries are being developed and will be made available
later this spring.  FY 2002 survey data will be collected this Fall. If you
don't see something that you are looking for, let me know because we may
have it and just not summarized it yet.

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Bill:

How can I get a hold of the SRA-KMPG study. Thanks.

JC
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Graduate School of Social Service
Fordham University
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I have some numbers from the FY 2000 SRA-KPMG Sponsored Programs
Benchmarking Survey. The following are interquartile values for
institutions in the 1Q of total sponsored programs funding (Less than $25M
annual). There are 14 institutions in this quartile. Let me know if you
want additional information about the survey and available data.

Regards,

Bill Kirby

 75th       50th       25th
 Percentile Percentile Percentile
 (median)

 Pre Award Staff         6.8        4.8        2.8

 Pre Award Admin    $500,000   $250,701   $181,142
 Costs

 Pre Award Admin       4.80%      3.50%      2.40%
 Costs/Total SP
 $

 Total SP $ Per   na         na         na
 Pre Award Staff

 Post Award Staff        4.5        2.7        1.5

 Post Award Admin   $195,262   $121,193    $76,986
 Costs

 Post Award Admin      1.50%      1.20%      1.00%
 Costs/Total SP $

 Total SP $ Per   $4,635,132 $3,568,672 $2,687,611
 Post Award Staff

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From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org]On Behalf
Of tom findley
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 5:40 PM
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Subject: [RESADM-L] what is reasonable research office funding as a
percent of grants?

I have just been appointed to the research and development committee at
my VA medical center.
We have about 3 million dollars a year in outside funding that goes
through our VA, and another 2-3 million that goes through a nearby
medical school (for which we get no indirect costs).  Our research
office (which handles IRB and accounting) has an annual budget of
300,000 and claims that they are seriously underfunded.

Does any one have a rule of thumb as to what is reasonable for funding
of research office support, as a percentage of grants received?

--

Thomas W. Findley MD, PhD
Clinical Director
Center for the Study of War Related Illness
VA Medical Center mailstop 127B
385 Tremont Ave, East Orange NJ 07018-1095
973-676-1000 x 2713 (phone) 973-395-7114 (fax)
xxxxxx@njneuromed.org

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