Good morning everyone.  I'm Looking for opinions on this, please help.
I was asked to remove the supplies from our subaward proposal budget
submitted to a university. Their sponsored projects office said they
will put our supplies in their budget and have it shipped to us, thus
using their lower F&A rate.
This doesn't make sense to me, if we are using the supplies, we should
purchase them.
I know they are trying to avoid the extra F&A since the challenge grants
limit total costs to $500,000.  Is this an acceptable practice?   Do you
think their sponsored projects office really suggested this?  I wonder
if any of them are on this listserv.  Does anyone else suggest this
practice to their PI's?

I have to admit I'm also a bit peeved, I just finished submitting
everything, I have 17 other ARRA grants to work on and I don't' have
time to change their budget, Ugh.
Thanks
Andrea

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Andrea Schmitt
Grants Manager
Sun Health Research Institute
10515 West Santa Fe Dr.
Sun City, AZ  85351
623-876-5628
623-876-5461 (fax)
xxxxxx@bannerhealth.com

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