Good Morning --

 I would like to hear from other universities that accept Intergovernmental
Personnel Act (IPA) agreements from Federal agencies--I am speaking of the
situation in which the university employee is temporarily detailed to the
Federal agency rather than the reverse.

 If you do accept IPA agreements, are they processed through your sponsored
programs office or your personnel office? Do you invoice by hours or percent
of time? How do you handle the fact that you have a university employment
agreement with the employee guaranteeing xx days of holiday leave;  yet the
IPA agreement states that the IPA employee can only take Federal holidays
(our problem is the Christmas break)? Are you receiving requests to hire
people who are not employees just so the Federal agency can then issue an
IPA for that person's time?

 If you do not accept IPA agreements, why not?

 Replying directly to xxxxxx@email.uah.edu will be fine. Thanks!

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

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