Hi all:

We are in the process of subawarding funds from an NSF grant to a
university in Bangladesh (per the proposal).  We have executed foreign
subawards before without any problems.  However, in this case the foreign
university insists on an up-front payment of at least 50% rather than cost
reimbursement.  They say they cannot afford to do their part
otherwise.  Our grant accounting division says we cannot advance funds from
federal awards in this manner, it must be cost reimbursement.  We cannot
find any references to this type of situation in the NSF terms and
conditions or federal circulars.  Thoughts or experience on this
anyone?  Thanks in advance.

Jeff Myers
Southern Illinois University

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