Pre-award services provided:

• Identifying and publicizing funding opportunities
• Reviewing funding opportunity announcements (e.g. the PA, PAR, FOA, or RFP) and sponsor guidelines to identify specific sponsor requirements
• Serving as a liaison between the OSP pre-award Sponsored Program Officer (SPO) and the faculty for award negotiations, revising budgets and responding to funding cuts as requested by the sponsor
• Requesting a preliminary project number if needed

Post-award services provided:

• Completing signature authorization forms for the project
• Helping to ensure faculty and staff are appointed to the project by processing release time, cost-shared, direct appointments and working with other departments as needed
• Completing personnel expenditures transfers (retro distributions) as needed to ensure faculty and staff effort is properly charged to the project
• Working with faculty, research staff, and division coordinators to assist with procurement of supplies and materials
• Advising faculty on allowable costs and budget latitude
• Helping faculty complete progress (non-competing renewals) and final reports
• Serving as a liaison between the OSP post-award SPO and the faculty for budget revisions, requests for project period extensions, and during project close-out
• Monitoring project financials
• Facilitating compliance activities such as effort certification, conflict of interest certification, training in protection of human and animal subjects
• Arranging for consultant and sub-award agreements

Bridge Loan Policy  - Effective July 1, 2016