Janis,
My understanding at present is
that they now want multiple subawards issued to a single subrecipient aggregated
and reported under one record, and that they now want vendor payments reported
if the payments issued to the vendor total more than $25K for the quarter, rather
than if there were a single payment of $25K or more. This is a contradiction to
previous guidance and constitutes a change from my perspective.
As to your question regarding
vendor payment data from your subs, page 57 of the data model states that “The
field is optional for vendors of sub-recipients,” so it would be at your
discretion as to whether or not you wanted to exclude them.
I know that COGR is working with
OMB to obtain clarification. I’ll forward along any relevant information
I receive.
Ricky
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Janis
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 5:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] Summary of OMB ARRA Guidance Update (M-10-34)
I would like to confirm/clarify that there are instructions to now
Change the data we are submitting on vendor payments.
Did they want everyone to go back and change the old data?
This seems like taking data and making it more useless by
changing the criteria in the middle of the awards.
We were submitting data on vendor payments that included data from
our subcontracts. Now they want it excluded. Correct?
If anyone can confirm this step, please do so that I can finish the
reports before the deadline.
Thank you,
Janis
Janis Lenox,
Director, Contracts & Grants
NCIRE - The
Veterans Health Research Institute
San Francisco VA Medical Center
4150 Clement Street, 151 NC
San Francisco, CA 94121-1545
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Subject: [RESADM-L] Summary of OMB ARRA Guidance Update (M-10-34)
Attached is my summary of the guidance update in case it
may be of help to anyone. The major changes from my perspective are to:
·
The criteria for marking a report final,
·
The criteria for project/quarterly activity
descriptions (cannot use most acronyms/abbreviations and must collect/include
sub-recipient descriptions), and
·
The sub-award and vendor thresholds (now based
on cumulative amounts rather than single awards/payments).
Ricky
Ray
Project
Manager
Columbia University
Sponsored Projects Finance
615 W. 131st St., 4th Floor
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212-854-1065
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212-854-1048
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