What is a consortium justification?
Consortium Justification: If you have a consortium/subcontract, include the total costs (direct costs plus F&A costs), rounded to the nearest $1,000, for each consortium/subcontract. Additionally, any personnel should include their roles and person months; if the consortium is foreign, that should be stated as well.
Is cost sharing allowed on NIH grants?
The difference between the salary charged to NIH and the actual salary must be paid from a university unrestricted account. It is not, however, considered cost-share, as it is not an NIH allowable expense.
What is current and pending support?
Current and pending support is a term generally used by all other federal sponsors and other types of funding entities to request the submission of information for key personnel’s active and pending review or award research funding. This information is submitted at the time of proposal. The format varies by sponsor.
What are NIH indirect costs?
An indirect cost is any cost not directly identified with a single, final cost objective, but identified with two or more final cost objectives or an intermediate cost objective. It is not subject to treatment as a direct cost.
What is a modular budget?
The modular budget is an NIH specific budget concept relating to research grant submission. The budgets are created in modules of $25,000 up to $250,000 total direct costs in each budget period. The modular budget concept was created to streamline the budget requirements for proposal submission.
What is the difference between a Subaward and a subcontract?
A subaward is “under” the main grant award; the grant recipient receives the funds and passes them through to the subrecipient. A contractor provides goods or services to the grant recipient, and a subcontractor provides goods or services to the contractor.
What can be used as cost-share?
Cost Sharing is that portion of a total sponsored project’s costs that not borne by the sponsor. Cost Sharing can either be required by a sponsor as a condition of the award (Mandatory Committed) or it can be voluntarily pledged (Voluntary Committed) when it’s not a sponsor requirement.
What are participant support costs?
Participant support costs means direct costs for items such as stipends or subsistence allowances, travel allowances, and registration fees paid to or on behalf of participants or trainees (but not employees) in connection with conferences, or training projects.
Where do I include the cost of subaward/cons consortium in R&R budget?
However, you must include the full cost of subaward/consortium in the Subawards/Consortium Costs field ( G. 300 – R&R Budget Form, Section F. Other Direct Costs, Question 5 ).
What are consortium/contractual costs?
Consortium/contractual F&A costs Necessary costs incurred by a recipient for a common or joint purpose benefitting more than one cost objective, and not readily assignable to the cost objectives specifically benefitted, without effort disproportionate to the results achieved.
What should be included in an additional justification for a consortium?
Additionally, any personnel should include their roles and person months; if the consortium is foreign, that should be stated as well. Additional Narrative Justification: Additional justification should include explanations for any variations in the number of modules requested annually.
Can consortium/contractual F&A costs be excluded from NIH grants?
Refer to the NIH Grants Policy Statement, Section 2.3.7.1: Applications That Include Consortium/Contractual F&A Costs for policy related to the exclusion of consortium/subaward amounts in determining whether an applicant is in compliance with a direct cost limitation.