In my former lives (government contractor, university and now hospital setting) I have negotiated fringe benefit rates when our accounting system did not charge benefit costs directly to the cost center where the employee was coded.

I now, at a hospital, have a benefit rate because the language in the indirect cost rate letter stated, "Fringe benefits are specifically identified to each employee and are charged individually as direct costs."  Our accounting system couldn't accommodate that level of detail, so we needed to have a fringe rate and to update the language in the rate letter.

Linda Ward, MBA
Grant Accounting Manager
Grant Accounting  35-123A
Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
2910 Centre Pointe Dr.
Roseville, MN 55113
651-855-2603
651-855-2690 Fax
email: xxxxxx@childrensmn.org

>>> Pamela Miller <xxxxxx@USFCA.EDU> 10/31/2007 1:42 PM >>>
Our university negotiates its fringes along with its F&A with DHHS.

This is the first university I have worked at that does this.

Does anyone out there know if this is something that DHHS "imposes" on a
university or if it is the choice of the university to negotiate its fringe
rates?

Thanks for any background on this topic.

Pam

Pamela F. Miller, Ph.D.
Director, Office of Sponsored Projects
The University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
TEL  415-422-5368
FAX 415-422-6222
EMAIL xxxxxx@usfca.edu

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