This is "voluntary committed" cost sharing.  It does not have to be
reported to the agency with the FSR, but does go into the research base for
F&A computation.

see my website
http://views.vcu.edu/ospa/manual/CostAcctStd/CostSharePolicy8-01.htm
for more on cost sharing since the January 2001 OMB clarification.

Chuck

At 08:55 AM 9/17/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Listers,
>
>We have very few NIH grant applications (and even fewer awards) so I'm a bit
>unsure how to handle this:
>
>No employee salaries (except undergrads) are allowed but on form PHS 298
>under "personnel" the PI and others are stating percent of effort and what
>they will be doing. To me this sounds like cost sharing and should be
>tracked and documented to be able to validate that Dr. X did devote xx%
>effort to this project. The PI says that this is not expected by the agency.
>I don't know enough about the particulars of NIH to push this but as a
>general principle it seems that we should document expenditures of this
>effort on an exclusive internal account.
>
>Val Seaquist
>Office of Research Administration
>The University of Alabama in Huntsville
>
>
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