Re: Change in Indirect Cost Rate Jennifer Donais 26 Jul 2002 11:19 EST
Marie - I believe you want to look at A-21, section G.8 (excerpted below) 7. Fixed rates for the life of the sponsored agreement. a. Federal agencies shall use the negotiated rates for F&A costs in effect at the time of the initial award throughout the life of the sponsored agreement. "Life" for the purpose of this subsection means each competitive segment of a project. A competitive segment is a period of years approved by the Federal funding agency at the time of the award. If negotiated rate agreements do not extend through the life of the sponsored agreement at the time of the initial award, then the negotiated rate for the last year of the sponsored agreement shall be extended through the end of the life of the sponsored agreement. Award levels for sponsored agreements may not be adjusted in future years as a result of changes in negotiated rates. b. When an educational institution does not have a negotiated rate with the Federal Government at the time of the award (because the educational institution is a new grantee or the parties cannot reach agreement on a rate), the provisional rate used at the time of the award shall be adjusted once a rate is negotiated and approved by the cognizant agency. Marie Smith wrote: > I have a question that I hope someone can help me with. We have a > predetermined indirect cost rate decided by NSF, our cognizant agency. We > have an onsite rate and an offsite rate which gets blended into an effective > rate for each award. > > My question - Although our approval letter states that the rate(s) should be > applied to all new awards, our institution (me) recalculates the effective > rate on all open awards to give each project the benefit of the lower of the > approved rate or rate in the proposal. Where can I find the rules stating > that this is necessary/not necessary? > > Thanks for your help. > Marie > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Marie F. Smith, CRA > Manager of Grants Administration > Institute of Ecosystem Studies > PO Box AB, 65 Sharon Turnpike > Millbrook, NY 12545 > Tel: 845-677-5343 > Direct Line: 845-677-7600 x 202 > FAX: 845-677-5976 > E-mail: xxxxxx@ecostudies.org > http://www.ecostudies.org > > ====================================================================== > 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") > ====================================================================== -- Jennifer Donais, CRA Associate Director Office of Grant & Contract Administration University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-5888 FAX (413) 577-1595 http://www.umass.edu/research/ogca ====================================================================== 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") ======================================================================