BIOCHEMISTRY

Award Types

We manage several types of Awards

• Gifts
• Revenue Producing Activities (Fee for Services)
• Grants
• Contracts
• Cooperative Agreements
• Gift in Kind

CALS Research Division maintains a list of Award Types.

Gifts (233 funds)

5 Criteria to define a Gift (Must meet all 5 criteria)

• Must provide support for broadly defined activities, such as professorships, scholarships, building projects, fellowships, research and instructional programs. The donor may restrict the use of funds to a specific program area or purpose.
• No detailed technical or fiscal reports are required as a condition of the gift.
• No patents, copyrights and other intellectual property rights that result from activities supported by the gift are claimed by the donor.
• The gift contains no restrictive provisions, such as delays or advance notice concerning publication or dissemination of data and information derived from activities supported by the gift.
• The gift is irrevocable by the donor.

Revenue Producing Facilities (136 funds)

• In general, sales of goods or services sold at a fixed rate. Some examples are copy centers, registration fees for conferences, Animal Care, NMR, BIF, Storeroom, and TEM.
• Rate determined by incorporating all direct and indirect costs associated with providing goods/services.

UW Policies on 136 accounts are found here: http://www.bussvc.wisc.edu/acct/policy/rpa/rpapol.html

Grants (144 funds; 135 funds WARF Sponsored)

• Project conceived by PI.
• PI defines details and retains scientific freedom.
• Usually fundamental research or institutional research and training.
• A grant is distinguished from a contract in that a grant does not constitute the procurement of goods and services by the grantor. The grant is a unilateral act.

Contracts

• Project conceived by agency.
• Agency procures service.
• Agency exercises direction or control.
• Agency closely monitors.
• Usually developmental research rather than fundamental.

Contracts can be fixed price contracts or cost-reimbursement contracts.

• A fixed price contract is a contract in which the agency sets a price in advance and pays that price for the research. It places minimal administrative burden on the contracting parties.
• A cost-reimbursable contract is a contract in which allowable and reasonable costs incurred by a contractor in the performance of a contract are reimbursed in accordance with the terms of the contract.

Cooperative Agreement

• Similar to Contracts, but typically conceived jointly.
• An agreement is used in lieu of a grant when the sponsor anticipates substantial programmatic involvement with the recipient during performance of the project.

Gifts in Kind

• A gift-in kind is a contribution of personal or real property which requires annual reporting by the institution.