Peter,
I'm sure you know the answer to this, but I couldn't resist. A consultant
is used for short-term, expert, highly-focused, often technical effort on a
project. There is no ongoing relationship, and the consultant who is part
of an academic organization operates apart from his or her own institution.
If the collaborator is using the resources, including students, or
facilities of his/her institution, then this has to be a subaward, not a
consulting agreement.
I would be very uncomfortable using a consulting arrangement as a way around
institutional factors, such as time and effort or indirect costs.
Kim
-----Original Message-----
From: Dolce, Peter J [mailto:xxxxxx@MAIL.MMC.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 1:30 PM
To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
Subject: [RESADM-L] Consulting and Effort
One of our PIs wants to engage a faculty member at another school as a
collaborator. That faculty member already has 90% of her effort committed
to grant-funded projects, and the remaining 10% is not sufficient to make
the proposed collaboration convincing to the proposed sponsor. The solution
proposed by the two investigators is list the collaborator as a consultant
for ~$20,000.
Is it a common practice to use the consulting mechanism to engage
collaborators whose is effort fully committed to other projects?
Peter J. Dolce, Ph.D., Director
Office of Research Support Services
Meharry Medical College
1005 DB Todd Boulevard
Nashville, TN 37208
V 615 327 6703
F 615 327 6716
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