MRAM-Announcement

From: Joe Giffels, Associate Vice Provost for Research Administration and Integrity, and Rebekah Skiver Thompson, Associate Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer

The Office of Research Information Services (ORIS) has recently updated MyResearch to include the following improvements:

Navigate to MyResearch from SAGE

We've included Q&A from the July MRAM as well as some additional resource links. 

Department of Defense Cybersecurity Maturity Measure Certification (DoD CMMC)

Q: Do we anticipate these cybersecurity measures will trickle down to current awards, or only to new awards?
A: We expect the DoD CMMC requirement will only apply to new contracts. However, it is possible it will be integrated into a current DOD contract, by modification, should the Contracting Officer identify that CUI is involved.

The federal government has exhibited flexibility in some aspects of its management of research funding to universities during COVID-19, including extending deadlines for submission of applications, rebudgeting award funds for COVID-19 response-related activities and paying salaries from federal award funds to grant personnel who were unable to carry out research work due to the pandemic.

Final FY21 fringe benefit rates (i.e. payroll load rates) are available in the Benefit Rate Table and within SAGE budget. Use these updated rates on multi-year sponsored program proposal budgets to best reflect anticipated costs.

Periodically, we update our subaward certification forms. The latest subaward certification forms are always available on our website.

To ensure the most current version of the forms are used, we urge you to download them directly from the site instead of saving a local copy to reuse later. 

We've included links and basic information about these forms for your convenience. 

Subaward Project Certification

Greetings Colleagues,

Some of you may see notices from our federal sponsors that our System for Awards Management (SAM) registration expires on 7.31.2020.  Please note that OSP will be renewing our SAM registration the week of July 6th.  

Thank you, 
The Office of Sponsored Programs

This email is to inform you about two upcoming changes to the Faculty Grants Management training. These changes are based on feedback from our evaluations and constituents, as part of our continuing efforts to enhance support of research administration at UW.

First, we are changing the name of the session to “Grants Management for Investigators” to reflect the fact that not all investigators are faculty.

Final Fiscal Year 2021 fringe benefit rate calculations and publication of new rates will be delayed.

Management Accounting and Analysis (MAA) has committed to submitting the rates in time for the first payroll cycle of FY21.

We will send an update the week of July 6.

Thank you,
Office of Sponsored Programs and Office of Planning and Budget

NIH and NSF have coordinated on their implementation of the flexibilities from OMB Memo M-20-26. This memo gives agencies the authority to extend certain flexibilities to award recipients affected by COVID-19. 

Please refer to the PAFC COVID website for more information on the OMB Memos.