Re: Cost sharing with Private Sponsors on Federal flow-through projects. Greg & Peg Schmidt 23 Jul 2004 20:04 EST

David:

I wouldn't want to do cost sharing on this, but if the choice was either
get the award with matching, or lose it, I'd probably give the
matching.  There is nothing requiring you to match the costs.  The Prime
grantee is required to match.  That you do, too is simply nice of you.

Greg Schmidt

David Hollingsworth wrote:

>Our procedure is not to provide cost sharing when the sponsor is a
>for-profit. We are having a discussion whether it is appropriate to
>provide cost sharing in the following example.
>
>Federal agency RFP that specifically requires a percentage of cost
>sharing. A for-profit organization is taking the lead on the proposal
>and the university is a subrecipient.  The for-profit lead institution
>requires that the university provide the required percentage of cost
>sharing for the university's part of the budget.
>
>We are cost sharing in return for the federal flowthrough dollars and
>this seems like it should be ok. Any other thoughts?
>
>
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