Budget Development
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Definitions
- Subaward: A subaward is provided to another organization under the lead or prime organization that receives the award. The lead manages the award and passes funds to the subaward organization.
- Tuition remission: These funds are charged to the project in relation to tuition provided to a graduate research assistant.
- Participant support costs: Costs budgeted to support participants in a project or program. Participants are not employees. Participants are provided training or workshop as part of a sponsored project. Costs may include stipends, per diem, travel and scholarships.
- Cost share or match: Funds or in-kind services provided by the applicant and/or partners to support the project, as required by a sponsor. These are included in a project budget if the sponsor requires cost share or match.
- : Refers to the process of estimating and budgeting for the costs associated with travel for a research project. These costs may include airfare, lodging, meals, transportation and other expenses related to travel. When preparing a budget, refer to the state .
- Facilities and administrative rate: Also known as indirect costs. Facilities and administrative costs are defined in 2 CFR 200 (Uniform Guidance) as costs that are "incurred for common or joint objectives and therefore cannot be readily and specifically with a particular sponsored project, an instructional activity or any other institutional activity."
For more information, go to , Indirect Cost Recovery (F&A) and , effective July 1, 2018, through July 1, 2023. - For help in creating a proposal budget, contact the Office of Grants and Contracts Administration or your college grant specialist.
Working with external collaborators
- Working with external collaborators can serve to expand a project's capacity, impact and opportunity for success. These relationships can take different forms based on the nature of the work and of the collaborator.
- Subaward (to a subrecipient): This means the lead organization is a pass-through for the award to its collaborator. A subawardee is responsible to the objectives of the project and programmatic decision-making. A subawardee is responsible for providing a budget and other proposal documents to the lead organization during proposal development.
- Contractor: Provides goods and services to the project and is not responsible to the project's objectives or decision-making. The goods and services a contractor provides are part of its normal business operations.
- The federal rule helps differentiate the roles.
- A project lead may choose to use an adviser or a consultant as an unfunded collaborator or a contractor, depending on the nature and length of the relationship. Refer to the sponsor's guidance to learn how to document an unfunded collaborator in the application.
- Personnel salary and effort: Project personnel who are key to project and have inputs in the direction of a project. Often, senior personnel provide quantified efforts and are salaried on a project.