Re: Collaborator purchasing supplies for subcontractor to avoid F&A Lesley Zajac 13 Apr 2009 11:50 EST
May depend on the type of supplies you are referring to. If you are referring to supplies related to patient care then it does make sense in a way - it gives them more control over the shipment/use of such items tied to patient enrollment. We almost always do it this way. We will even have it all shipped to us and then ship it to clinical centers as patients enroll and the need for the supplies arises. We have found this helps minimize the possibility of project-specific supplies accidentally being mixed with "general" supplies. This also ensures that all clinical centers get exactly the same supplies. I do agree that given the pressure we are all under with these ARRA applications, it is a little late to be asking you to change your budgets. Lesley S. Zajac Director, Research Administration Jaeb Center for Health Research 15310 Amberly Drive, Ste 350 Tampa, FL 33647 Tel: 813.975.8690 Fax: 813.975.8761 email: xxxxxx@jaeb.org -----Original Message----- From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of Schmitt, Andrea L Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 12:26 PM To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org Subject: [RESADM-L] Collaborator purchasing supplies for subcontractor to avoid F&A 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ====================================================================== 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") ======================================================================