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OSR-Evanston Quarterly Network May 7, 2013. Elizabeth Adams Executive Director. Updates from the Director. New Staff Grants Assistant Brandon Greene Grants Assistant Ted Smith
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Updates from the Director
- New Staff
- Grants Assistant Brandon Greene
- Grants Assistant Ted Smith
- Office of Management and Budget (OMB) “Omni Circular” that proposes grants reform via consolidation and modification of several circulars
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), a strategic partner in Northwestern’s research
What are the OMB Circulars Again?
- The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is not a sponsor
- Its main job is to assist the President to prepare the budget
- It also measures the quality of agency programs, policies, and procedures
- OMB issues instructions to federal agencies in the form of “circulars”
What are the OMB Circulars Again?
- The circulars that currently govern universities in the area of grants management are:
- A-21, Cost Principles
- A-110, Administrative Requirements
- A-133, Audits
- Important to note that universities are not the only recipients of federal grants (e.g., state, local, tribal governments; nonprofit research institutions; hospitals)
Proposed “Omni Circular”
- Much-anticipated “Proposed OMB Uniform Guidance: Cost Principles, Audit, and Administrative Requirements for Federal Awards”
- Published in the February 1, 2013 Federal Register
- 244 pages
- Comments due on June 2 via www.regulations.gov (extended from May 2)
- This is about grants reform, for agencies and for awardees
- Northwestern’s institutional response being drafted
- Involves OSR, ASRSP, Cost Studies, Financial Operations, VPR
- NU working with other universities around the country in developing a response
Areas of Emphasis in NU’s Institutional Response
- Accountability and transparency…on both sides
- Agency inconsistency in award forms, terms, reporting, F&A rates, audit standards
- RFP standardization: provide 90 day advance notice for application submission deadlines; deadline hours should be based on local, normal business hours (no 11:59pm Eastern)
- Streamline subrecipient monitoring
- Cost sharing
Our Neighbor to the Southwest
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Northwestern-Argonne Institute for Science and Engineering (NAISE) http://naise.northwestern.edu/
- Terms finalized for renewed Basic Ordering Agreement beginning ~5/1/13 (five year life)
- Collaborative proposals and awards
- Joint appointments (paid and unpaid)
- LS-CAT
- DND-CAT
