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NOVEMBER,
2005 NEWS ARCHIVE
 | Retroactive
Cost Transfers -
As
announced at the Fiscal Administrators meeting of September 14th, 2005, OSP's
responsibly for reviewing, approving, and processing retroactive transactions
(Retro's) has been changed from Alex Siedlecki to Sharon Boyd, our Director of
Research Adminisration Outreach & Compliance, effective Monday 9-12-05. This will
enable Sharon better to coordinate all the compliance activities in the closely-related
areas of effort reporting and cost transfers. It will also enable Alex to focus
his efforts on receivables, cash management, and deficits. Sharon's email address
is sgb4n@virginia.edu and her phone number is 243-2036. Please continue to submit
retro's to the OSP email address osp-retro-request@virginia.edu
as you have done in the past. If you need to request a retroactive cost transfer,
and you would like to use our template to do so, you can get it here.
We also provide a helpful tipsheet to walk
you through the process.
Archived: November 22nd, 2005 |
| Goldenrod
Modifications - GOLDENROD
MODIFICATIONS
We
have made some small but, we hope, helpful adjustments to the goldenrod
proposal approval sheet, to make it easier to complete. We now include a check
box for "Not Applicable"
to avoid
confusion. We have also added some questions on the subject of Hazardous Materials
and Environmental Health and Safety. Please refer to our Forms
page.
Archived: November 22nd, 2005 |
| Award
Setup Grid
We
are pleased to make available for your convenience the OSP Award
Setup Grid.
We hope
that this document will enable you to understand the way OSP establishes awards
and projects depending on the nature of the award and the various stipulations
of the appropriate agencies with regard to billing, invoicing and reporting.
Archived: November 22nd, 2005 |
| New
Expenditure Type
Please
be advised that there is now a new expenditure type to be used for direct charging
criminal background checks to sponsored programs awards. This expenditure type
is
Svcs, Background Check
Please be sure to use this expenditure
type. Use of another expenditure type, such as Svcs, Legal, will not be successful
since this is not allowable expenditure type according to our recently-implemented
transaction controls initiative (see below).
Archived: November 22nd,
2005 | | Graduate
Student Health Insurance
OSP
has been working with a number of entities at the University to establish a process
for charging part or all of graduate health insurance premiums to sponsored program
awards. This effort continues, but here is an interim advisory
statement on the subject, to enable you to build your budgets in an appropriate
manner. We will of course let you know of any developments as they occur.
Archived: November 22nd, 2005 |
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New
NIH Salary Cap Information for 2005 The
NIH has issued its latest update on the salary cap for direct salaries of individuals
under an NIH grant or cooperative agreement. The Executive Level I annual salary
rate was $175,700 for the period January 1 through December 31, 2004. Effective
January 1, 2005 through December 31, 2005, the Executive Level I salary limit
increased to $180, 100. Full details of this announcement can be found at http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/policy/salcap_summary.htm
Archived: November 22nd, 2005 |
| Transaction
Controls
OSP is beginning University-wide
implementation of transaction controls on grant projects beginning January 3rd,
2005, after a successful pilot through the summer and fall. The initiative will
use Oracle functionality to prevent the use of certain expenditure types in order
to increase business efficiency and to reinforce compliance. Transaction controls
will affect all federal awards, subcontracts, and training grants and fellowships.
We hope that the impact on users will be minimal. Check out the Transaction
Controls section of our website for details of the procedure. Please note
also the changes to Part 3 of the Goldenrod Proposal Approval sheet and our request
that you submit a supplemental CAS form in the case of after-the-fact CAS exception
requests. Please see also our comprehensive CAS Guidelines.
Assistant Director of Sponsored Programs, Stewart Craig, addresses issues around
CAS and Transaction Controls in a letter
from January 10th, 2005
Archived: November 22nd, 2005 |
| New
F&A and Fringe Rate Agreements
The
Department of Health and Human Services has issued a new F&A
and Fringe rate agreement, along with details of new Fringe Benefit Rates.
Please reference these agreements where necessary when preparing grant proposals.
Please note also that the date of these agreements is May 23, 2005. You may also
want to read Mike Glasgow's letter
to Deans, Department Chairs and Research Administrators announcing the new rates.
Archived: November 22nd, 2005 | |
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