Perhaps the important part of this answer is to have a different words
for the two types of sponsors.  What is the opposite of Prime.  At
Michigan, we use the term DIRECT to refer to the agency that is giving
us the money -- the one who writes the check or makes a deposit, the
one whose staff we deal with. Our direct source of the funds. We use
the term PRIME to refer to the agency from where the money comes
originally - the agency that gave the money to the Direct Sponsor.
Sometimes there are other agencies in between also and we record these
in our data base, but the Prime is where the money can be traced back
to and the Direct is the one that had it before giving it to us.

Bob
xxxxxx@umich.edu

On Apr 8, 2005, at 12:44 PM, Christian Hess wrote:

Greetings,

There seems to be some disagreement throughout my institution about
whether, in cases where we are a subrecipient,  the term "Prime"
sponsor/source refers to the original funding source, e.g. NSF, NIH
etc., or to the institution that issued us the subagreement.  My
understanding is that the "Prime" is the non-federal entity that
receives the primary award/contract directly from the federal sponsor. 
Do I have this backwards?

Thanks,
CH

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