I agree with Claire Carlson.  This is a purchase of goods or services in
support of a research project and not a subcontract for scope of work
research activities.

Jeff Myers
Office of Research Development and Administration
Southern Illinois University

At 02:52 PM 12/2/1999 -0700, Claire L. Carlson wrote:
>I would charge indirect on the whole P.O. since you are dealing with a
>vendor relationship and not a subcontractor -- it's like any other direct
>cost.
>
>Claire L. Carlson
>Associate Vice President for Research
>The University of Montana
>
>At 03:29 PM 12/02/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>>        I believe that we all agree that F&A (indirect) should be charged
>only to
>>the first $25K of a subcontract issued under a contract or grant. I'm
>>curious as to how other universities would handle the following situation:
>>
>>        A university purchase order is issued (from a contract/grant
>account) to a
>>company/individual/whatever in an amount greater than $25K for something
>>such as computer lab. maintenance, calibration of equipment, machining of
>>parts. (This is just a regular requisition = purchase order situation not a
>>university subcontract under a prime with university T&C's and prime
>>flow-down clauses.) Should we charge indirect on only the first $25K of this
>>purchase order amount? If so, are we saying that this purchase order is a
>>subcontract? If not, why not?
>>
>>As always, thank you for your input.
>>
>>Val Seaquist
>>Office of Research Administration
>>The University of Alabama in Huntsville
>>256-890-6000 x 228
>>256-890-6677 (fax)
>>xxxxxx@email.uah.edu
>>
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