Re: NSF Subaward to Foreign Univ. Jeff Myers 07 May 2003 13:41 EST
This seems important. At 11:34 AM 5/7/03 -0500, you wrote: >As an institution that recently was audited by the US Inspector Generals' >office of NSF, I would not pay monies up-front. NSF looked at each >sub-contract and costs on the invoices. They visited one of our large >sub-recipients at their location. They interviewed the faculty, staff, and >students paid from the NSF grants at our institution and one of the >sub-recipient locations. They looked at the Time and Effort Certification >reports and visted on-going research projects. This was the most >comprehensive review that we have ever had. > >Gloria A. Barnes >Grants Senior Accountant >The University of South Dakota >210 Slagle Grants Accounting >414 E. Clark >Vermillion, SD 57069 >phone 605-677-5077 >Fax 605-677-5078 >xxxxxx@usd.edu > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jeff Myers [mailto:xxxxxx@SIU.EDU] >Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 10:49 AM >To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG >Subject: [RESADM-L] NSF Subaward to Foreign Univ. > > >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 > > >====================================================================== > 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") >====================================================================== > > >====================================================================== > 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") >====================================================================== ====================================================================== 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") ======================================================================