Re: One PI with PI status on collaborative proposal Marie Smith 30 Jun 2006 06:50 EST
Hi Donna, The answer is NO, we would not allow this here for a couple of reasons. 1) Conflict of interest 2) Loss of facility and administrative costs. If a researcher was part time here, they would have to make the decision as to which institution they wanted to be PI at and the other institution would need have someone else be PI. In our case, we would strongly encourage the PI to have one award to our institution and have their work at the collaborating institution carry the offsite rate. Good Luck! Marie *************************************** Marie F. Smith, CRA Manager of Grants Administration Institute of Ecosystem Studies PO Box AB, 65 Sharon Turnpike Millbrook, NY 12545 Phone: 845-677-7600 x202 Fax: 845-677-5976 E-mail: xxxxxx@ecostudies.org Internet: http://www.ecostudies.org -----Original Message----- From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org]On Behalf Of Donna Berger Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 4:43 PM To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org Subject: [RESADM-L] One PI with PI status on collaborative proposal Dear REASAMers, I need to deal with an issue in the morning and need your input on two issues: 1) We have a PI doing a collaborative NSF proposal. She wants to name herself as PI for both the lead organization and the non-lead collaborating institution where she will be spending a portion of her time on this research project. Would your university allow her to be named as PI for both organizations? 2) This PI is a faculty member at the lead institution (our college), but since she will do a substantial part of her research at the collaborating institution, she wants to budget for her time and effort on the non-lead institution's budget and be paid by them, rather than budget her time on our budget and be paid by us. In other words, she wants to have the non-lead institution recoup her salary money on the rate of pay that they would assign to her and pay her directly with NSF funds, rather be paid through us, her primary place of employment. Would any of your institutions entertain such an arrangement? Any input you could give me would be much appreciated. As an aside, from her dean's perspective, this is extra summer work and she would approve it as a summer work assignment. I see all kinds of issues that would argue against such an arrangement on a federal proposal, but there are conflicting views on this. I really would like to see this proposal happen, but not at the risk of putting the institution in a precarious position. Thank you for any input you can give. Sincerely, Donna Berger ====================================================================== 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") ======================================================================