You may want to check with the Benchmarking data base that was used by Bearingpoint and SRA. One of the survey items is identifying the cost of pre and post award offices. It would give you information in several dozens of research universities. You can go to the Bearingpoint website for contact info.

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--- On Wed, 12/3/08, TED MORDHORST <xxxxxx@U.WASHINGTON.EDU> wrote:

We are looking for measures of the cost associated with operating a post-award administration compared to total expenditures on sponsored projects. Does anyone know where we might find data on this? Ted Mordhorst Assistant Director, Post Award Financial Compliance Research Accounting and Analysis University of Washington 3917 University Way N.E. Rm150 Seattle, Wa 98105-6692 206-616-8678 Fax 206-543-0764 xxxxxx@u.washington.edu Work hours 6:30 - 5:00 Mon - Thurs ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================