Greetings --

I have several PI's who are urging/pushing me to enter our researcher's
rates in the GSA system. I don't think that this is a proper forum for
university research but can't find anything specific to back me up. GSA is
obviously commercial to me and we aren't supposed to be commercial or
commercially competitive. I have noticed a few universities listing rates on
the GSA web page but it appears that they are either machine shops or
laboratory testing services--repetitive services that would have a set cost.

Our university mission is teaching and research and putting our "rates" out
on the buffet for someone to pick & choose seems to conflict with that
mission. As far as rates, we propose the actual "rate" of each individual,
not a standard rate for a "research scientist" or "research analyst II",
etc.

I've gone to the VP level and the consensus seems to be, "well, I don't
think we should but I don't exactly know why not." Any thoughts, support,
guidance on the "why not?"

As always, thank you.

Val Seaquist
Office of Research Administration
The University of Alabama in Huntsville

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