PCards in Sponsored Research
Use of a PCard (aka Purchasing or Procurement card) for non-recurring, small dollar transactions less than $3,000 in lieu of more traditional purchasing methods allows for efficient, flexible spending. These advantages may come at a cost when it comes to expenditures on sponsored agreements if appropriate internal controls are not in place. While all PCard […]
Unit Spotlight on Cooperative Institute of Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
CIRA is part of the Walter Scott Jr. College of Engineering at Colorado State University and is located on the Foothills Campus. Primarily a research facility, with relatively few faculty and students directly working at CIRA, education and outreach permeate everything that CIRA does, through active relationships with other academic units on campus and with […]
Spotlight on Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML)
Once a month, we are featuring a unit profile to support intra-campus collaboration and outreach. Our first spotlight features the Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands, known at CSU as CEMML. The Center is a service, education, and research unit in the Warner College of Natural Resources. In December, OSP met with CEMML Director […]
Rollout: No Cost Extension (NCE) Request
No Cost Extension (NCE) Request Sponsored projects often benefit from an extension period when progress is delayed or additional scope remains, as the project end date approaches. In research administration, we commonly refer to this as a No-Cost Extension (NCE). NCEs are the most common “prior approval request” that award recipients can request and sponsors […]
Budgeting for GRA salaries/stipends
Making sure that GRA salaries budgeted to sponsored projects are accurate for your unit and for any other units that your PI may be collaborating with and having a well-documented justification will make it much easier to answer any questions that may arise during award/contracting. It will also help to alleviate unexpected post award issues […]
On the Clock: Budget and Performance Periods
Most sponsored agreements specify a time period during which the sponsor expects the awardee to complete all award activities and incur and expend funds – known as the Period of Performance (POP). The overall award start and end dates indicate the POP, for example, a 5-year POP expressed as 10/01/2021 to 9/30/2026. Spending outside of […]
Wild (card) Searches in Kuali Research modules
Wildcards are characters that represent one or more other characters and can be used to maximize search results. For example, the asterisk (*) may be used to specify any number of characters at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of one or more search words. The wildcard search recommendations shown below are […]
To Pre-Spend, or not to Pre-Spend? That is the Question
Pre-award Spending Pre-award expenditures (aka pre-award costs) are costs incurred prior to the effective date of an award. For federal awards, pre-award expenditures are allowed only with the written approval of the Federal awarding agency. Under Uniform Guidance (2 CFR § 200.458), federal agencies are authorized to waive prior written approvals, and some federal and […]
You’ve Got Mail
Hello CSU! Welcome to my first blog attempt as your new Training and Information Coordinator in the Office of Sponsored Programs. I am Kathryn O’Hayre and join Colorado State after 11 years in Sponsored Programs Administration at CU Boulder in both Central and Departmental Administration. From those various perspectives, I have a few strategies to […]
Back to the Basics of Allowability
Uniform Guidance (2 CFR § 200.403) establishes standards for the allowability of costs (aka “Cost Principles”) that can be charged to a federally funded sponsored project. These Cost Principles, along with sponsor and applicant requirements, should form the basis for determining if a cost can be charged to a federal award. For a […]