You can only claim the indirect costs on subcontracts the first year of the
project.  When you get your grant award, that amount will be included in
your indirect cost base for the first year.  BTW, we just had a program
project funded that included four subcontracts to the same institution, and
they are only paying us for one.

At 07:00 PM 10/24/00 +0000, you wrote:
>Okay, I've got a question for those of you who use OMB A-122. What does the
>following phrase really mean concerning subcontracts?
>
>"MTDC consists of all salaries and wages, fringe benefits, materials and
>supplies, services, travel, and subgrants and subcontracts up to the first
>$25,000 of each subgrant or subcontract (regardless of the period covered by
>the subgrant or subcontract)"
>
>Does this mean, for example on a subgrant that costs $100,000/year for three
>years of the prime grant, I can claim indirects on the first $25K each year
>for three years in a row (TOTAL $75K after three years)? Or does this mean I
>can only claim indirects on the first $25K in year one and not in years two
>and three (TOTAL $25K over after three years)? I'd get more doing it the
>first way and less the last way. Which way, in your experience, is the
>"correct" one.
>
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