Re: maintenance/service contracts for equipment Borchers, Julia 06 Aug 2004 12:34 EST
We have the same requirements as you do. How else could we confirm that the IDC have been calculated correctly on the Checklist page or ensure they've requested enough modules of $25,000? Juli G. Borchers Grant & Contract Specialist Marshall University Research Corporation Phone: (304) 696-2468 Fax: (304) 697-3885 "We need men who can dream of things that never were." -John F. Kennedy -----Original Message----- From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG] On Behalf Of Joyce Davies Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 8:57 AM To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] maintenance/service contracts for equipment Hi, I have another question to put before the group for which I need advice. We have had requests from the faculty to reduce our budget requirements for proposals being submitted to agencies like the NIH that are modular or just in time or whatever. They don't require much information on the front end related to the budget but we still require the faculty to prepare budgets so that we know they've thought about their needs and have accounted for sufficient funding for personnel, etc. We also need to know equipment or subcontract needs in order to calculate the indirect costs. Then we just need a ballpark figure to cover other expenses such as supplies, travel, duplicating, phone, maintanence, etc. They feel this is too much work and say that no other schools require this at the front end, only after it is funded. My question to all of you... is this true? Do you have a more streamlined method of proposal budget prep that requires less work for both the PI and our office? My concern is that if we don't require them to think about it at the front end, they won't request the right amount of funding and then it's too late to say to the agency, we need more. Thanks for you help and I look forward to hearing from anyone willing to help me. Joyce ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joyce M. Davies, CPA Manager, Grants Accounting Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine 4209 SR 44, PO Box 95 Rootstown OH 44272 phone: 330-325-6369 fax: 330-325-7943 email: xxxxxx@neoucom.edu ====================================================================== 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") ======================================================================