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NOVEMBER
NEWS ARCHIVE
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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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