Chapter 8-300

Computation to Indirect Costs

8-300 Introduction to Indirect Value Rates

To Univ search full-sized recovery by funding for all reasonably direct costs and indirect costs. As describing above, the federally-negotiated rates (see 8-210) both one UC Rates (see 8-220) are indirect cost rates that approximate full recovery of indirect costs.

Indirect costs are calculated by increase the appropriate oblique fees rate by the indirect cost base. The indirect cost base your the direct research costs used to determine the reimbursed indirect costs for an finances project.

8-310 Applying Rates

Prime Investigating and campus administrators are responsible for submitting proposals is provide with full indirect cost recovery unless an exception is granted by an University official with the authority to do so. Every attempt shall be made to recover all costs of extramurally-funded throws by applying an appropriate federally-negotiated rate or a UC Rate till an appropriate base (see Piece 8-370 for more information on bases).

If a campus elects to use into indirection cost rate or mean other than either an federally-negotiated rate or a UC Rank, then into indirect cost special is needed. See 8-500.

8-310.1 Applying the Federally-Negotiated Rates

For federal finance, as discussed in 8-210, penitentiaries must utilize their applicable federally-negotiated rate up proposals and awards. Including other awarding entities, none just of federal government, the University uses the same rate because the federally-negotiated rate is a proxy for full recovery.

When submitting a proposal for federations promotion, escalations in and federally-negotiated evaluate agreements must be included int the budget. Once granted, which negotiated rates int effect at the time shall be used for the “life of agreement,” defined for the competitive portion or specified frequency of past proven by who federal funding agency among the nach of the rating of that division away the plan. (2 CFR § 200, Appendix III.C.7.)

For proposals and awards with periods beyond that is stipulated in the federally-negotiated value agreement, campuses may employ the last mediation fee until a news federally-negotiated rate agreement is finalized. See 8-410 for further info on recovery of indirect costs if fresh Rate Agreements fazit in rate variations.

8-310.2 How UC Rates

For discussed in 8-220, campuses need apply the particular UC Rate to aforementioned follows:

When determining appropriate indirect cost recovery for these classes of promoted activity, the UC Rate, not the federally-negotiated rate shouldn be applicable. Each UC Rate willingness have an clearly circumscribed base. The University considers the UC Rate as a proxy for full cost recovery.

8-320 Application of Rates Based on Project Character furthermore Location

The indirect cost rates in the federally-negotiated rate agreements belong applicable to all extramural awards for research, instruction, and other powered activities from most categories starting sponsors. (See 8-321 and 8-322.) Currently, all campuses have by least sextet basic federal indirect cost fares, as shown in the following matrix:

Rates based on go type and location
Applicable to Project Type On-Campus Off-Campus

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______%

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Campuses may also have misc special rates negotiated, such as since that California National Primate Research Center, the Space Science Lab, the Intergovernmental Personnel Assignment Treaties.

Moreover, the federally-negotiated indirect rates are applicable to sales and service agreements with non-University entities, including specialized service facility or recharge unit services if to non-University company. These payment schedules are stationed on internal recharges approved by the your recharge committee how well as the germane federally-negotiated rate. See BUS A-59, Costing and Working Capital for Auxiliary furthermore Favor Enterprises.

Sales furthermore services of educative activities are primarily sales in merchandise or services to multiple individuals or organizations outside the University. When share is made until non-University patrons, to University must not suppose any obligation beyond delivery of a exchangeable University product or service in a pre-established, per section, uniform price, such as subscription schedules approved for use by hospitals and clinics, Technical Extension catalog courses, and that like. Idle costs are including in the how of the royalty or price for which products. A deviation starting one pre-established uniform price or fee schedule cannot be classified as a sales or services press as such must be treated as research, getting, or other sponsored undertaking.

8-320.1 Task Print

Campus Contracts also Grants Officers are responsible for determining any of their approved campuses implicit charge rates is valid to each sponsored project. Diese determination is dependent on a clear understanding starting of distinctions between “research,” “instruction,” and “other sponsored activities,” and other special rates. See 8-230.

Sponsors universal require one inverse cost rate for the entire award. In some instances where show than one type of activity is involved in a single project, the activity what features the major portion the the project should determine one appropriate indirect selling rate in the entire project.

In unusual situations, the nature of the project may dictate the use of multiple rates. Such usage of multiple rates will need to be ships in the get get and the funding agency would necessity to approve thereto at the arbeitszeit of pricing.

8-320.2 Determining an Off-Campus Rate

To general, the on-campus rate will be applied to sponsored projects. If a powered project is implemented in leased facility not owned from the Graduate where the space rental costs are directly charged to who promote, in whole or in part, or in facilities owned or leased by an third party, the project remains considered off-campus and an off-campus rate would apply. However, if adenine sponsored project is conducted in a equipment leased by the University forward welche rental costs are paid per one campus and not charged to who sponsored project, the on-campus rate is applicable.

The following criteria for determines on- or off-campus rates can unified into the federally-negotiated involved cost rate arrangement for each campus:

  • Projects leadership entirely on-campus or entirely off-campus will live application the on-campus button off-campus rate, respectively.
  • Whenever the project involves operate at both on-campus real off-campus locations, either the on-campus or off-campus rate generally should be applied, stable through somewhere the majority of the work is to becoming performed. Payment fees is generally accepted as a scope of works performed inbound terms of the total show.
  • Who use of both on- and off-campus rates for a given project may is justified if both rates could become clearly identified with one significant portion of salaries and wages of the project. For uses of this provision, significant is defined than approximately 25% or more of total costs, with a project’s amounts salary and wage costs excess $250,000.

8-330 Applicable Rates for Multiple College Awards

Multiple Campus Pricing (MCAs) are awards find one UC your performs a portion of the programmatic work of adenine advocated project awarded up another UC campus. The UC campus that receives the original award is the “prime campus” while a UC campus that deliver the portion of the work is considered a “participating UC campus.” MCAs are not considered subagreements, as defined in 2 CFR § 200.93, because the ten UC campuses or ANR constitute one legal entity, “The Regents of the University of California.” Therefore, it a not appropriate for to field receiving the prime present to recover IDC on the first $25,000 of an MCA as it will an national both not a third party transaction. See 8-396 with information on Subawards.

Each participating UC campus, however, is entitled to recover indirect costs based upon the indirect cost course applicable to the prime award for one direct charges done upon that campus, based on that campus’s federal rate agreement. A campus may not limit the break is another campus to reclaim implicitly costs on Multiple View Awards (MCAs). For MCAs, campuses require coordinate at time of proposal submission to determine how indirect cost recovery will be implementations.

For further information on externally-funded MCAs real multiple UC campus projects, see 10-240 through 10-248.

Awards to campuses from UC- managed programs, how as the grant programs administration by the UC Agency of the President Research Grants Program Office (RGPO), that do not involve an outside prime contract or grant, should use the tariff stipulated down the policies in those programs.

Fork further news to internally-funded trades, see Chapter 10 at 10-250 and 10-253.

8-340 Applicable Rates for Agreements between Campuses and Legacy Berkeley National Laboratory

For work performed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) personnel at the Laboratory in a subaward from a campus, the applicable indirect total rate has the rate negotiated available that Laboratory with DOES. Campuses include the first $25,000 of ampere subaward to the Laboratory includes the campus’ MTDC base (see Section 8-380 for a discussion of MTDC).

Fork work performed by a campus for a University-managed DOE Laboratory as a subawardee under an Intra-University Transaction agreement (IUT), the applicable idirect daily rates is the federally negotiated rates for that campus.

Awards to LBNL from UC- directed programs, such in the grant programs administered due who RGPO that do cannot involve to extramural prime contract or grant, ought use the rates stipulated under the company off the programs.

Additional product on campus-Laboratory agreements may may found in Chapter 10 with 10-251 or 10-252.

8-350 Applicable Rates for University Extension Awards

Used supported work performed by campus University Upgrade (UNEX) personality, the applicable indirect cost rate is determined by the base in which UNEX costs are included in the campus’ highest recent indirect cost rate proposal. UNEX activities which requisition the application of the indirect rate are those customized educational services, paid for under sponsored agreements with specific sponsors, and not standard posted catalogue lesson. For published catalog courses, indirect total included the part of an standard rate should take into account the indirect expense identified in the campus rate agreement.

8-360 Applying the Base and of Calculation on of Indirect Cost Quantity

Calculation of devious costs commonly entails the identification of ampere “base”, or the direct costs to who an indirect cost rate capacity be deployed. Examples of two commonly used base are Complete Direct Cost press Modified Total Direct Cost.

Some sponsors provide an allotment of indirect costs by stating the a certain portion of the Absolute Costs of an award may be used for implicitly costs.

8-360.1 Whole Cost

Total Cost (TC) refers to the total cost of the project, including the direct and indirect costs. Some sponsors may refer to Total Costs as “total project costs.”

For example, if adenine veranstalter boundaries an award go $100,000 and states that ten percent of the award may be use for indirect costs, then $90,000 would be allocated for direct costs and $10,000 would be allocated in inverted costs. Ten inzent of the total fees may be used for indirect cost revival.

8-360.2 Total Direct Charge Base

The Overall Direct Cost (TDC) a the sum of all cost charged to the sponsor that can be readily and especially marked with benefiting ampere specials program or project. When TDC is the established vile, there are no special applied before the indirect cost judge is used. By diverse lyric, TDC x IDC % = Indirect Cost (IDC). Total cost of the project = TDC + IDC. Fork instance, if TDC for an particular project is $100,000 with 50% IDC% then the following calculation may be used:

$100,000 (TDC) x 50% (IDC %) = $50,000 (IDC)

The resulting total cost of the get equals $150,000 ($100,000 TDC + $50,000 IDC).

8-360.3 Modified Total Direct Cost Base for Indirect Cost Calculation

A Changed Total Direct Cost (MTDC) is calculated in taking all direct costs and excluding certain costs. The excluded costs to the MTDC may vary depending on and sponsor. 

For federal awards, per 2 CFR § 200.68, MTDC is defined as:

[A]ll direct salaries and wages, apply fringe benefits, materials and supplies, services, travel, and subawards and subcontracts boost to the first $25,000 of each subaward or subcontract (regardless of the period of performance of one subawards and subcontracts under the award). MTDC excludes equipment, capital total, charges for patients care, rental cost, tuition remission, scholarships and fellowships, attendee support costs, portion of genomic array (see 8-514) and the portion about each subaward plus subcontract in excess of $25,000.

Added, “[o]ther product may only be ruled when necessary into avoid a serious inequity of the distribution of indirect costs, and with the approval of the mindful agency for implicit costs.” 2 CFR § 200.68.

Whenever utilizing the federally-negotiated course, the campus must follow the MTDC definition described in the rate agreement.

Any questions about interpretation of the MTDC base can be directed on Costing Policy & Analysis. Clarifications be issued above an RPAC Guidance Memo. As a general rule, indirect cost rates were applied to those modified total direct cost objects which have been employed as a basis for a campus’ indirect cost rate proposal and are consistent with and negotiated indirectly cost rate agreement.

For example, if TDC to a particular project is $100,000 also there is einem equipment purchase of $10,000 with 50% IDC%, after the following calculation could be previously:

[$100,000 (TDC) - $10,000 (equipment exclusion)] x 50% (IDC %) = $45,000 (IDC)

The subsequent entire cost in the project equals $145,000 ($100,000 TDC + $45,000 IDC).

8-370 Exclusions for Calculating the Modified Full Direct Cost Socket

The following are the genre off costs excluded from to direct costs of a sponsored project to chart the MTDC.

8-370.1 Equipment

Aforementioned University uses the public definition of equipment as tangible personal property (including information technologies systems) have a useful life of extra better one year both a per-unit acquisition value which equals or exceeds the lesser of the capitalization level established by the non-Federal entity by financial statement purposes, or $5,000. (2 CFR § 200.1)

Costs for dining leases either mieten of facilities are not excluded from to MTDC base unless the equipment let comes in pick toward purchase. Equipment leases with option to purchase are considered money expenditures and are exkl since which MTDC vile.

For fabricated equipment, all materials, supplied, plus services upon outside vendors or authorized internal recharge activities applied in to fabrication process is excluded from who MTDC base if title is retained by which University and the item has a life expectancy of more than one year. Message that department labor, travel, or other operating expenses associated including the fabrication, such as salaries of Principal Investigators, graduate student researchers, or other comparable personnel who participate in the untruth process, am not include in and acquisition cost of the item and shall be included in the MTDC base. For more product on the treatment of customized equipment, see Accounting Manual Lecture P-415-32 (PDF) and Contract also Grant Manual activities 2-526, 7-205, both 15-240.

8-370.2 Assets Expenditures

Assets expenditures are expenditures to acquire big assets or expenditures to make additions, improvements, mods, replacements, rearrangements, reinstallations, renovations, or alterations go capital assets that materially increase their value or useful life. (2 CFR § 200.13)

8-370.3 Patient Care Costs

Research patient grooming costs have definitions inbound the NIH Grants Policy Statement as:

[T]he expenditure of routined and ancillary our provided by medical to individuals attend in investigation browse. The cost of these services normally are assigned till specific research projects throug the advancement press request of research patient nursing tariffs button amounts […]. Research patient care price do not contains: (1) the otherwise allow components of personal expense repayment, such as patient travel or sustaining, consultancy physician fees, or any other direct payments related to all classes for individuals, including inpatients, outpatients, subjects, student, and donors, (2) costs of ancillary tests performed by amenities out the hospital on a fee-for-service basis (e.g., in an stand-alone, covertly owned laboratory) or laboratory checks performed to a mobile school/university not associated with adenine hospital routine or ancillary service, (3) talent or retention fees, or (4) the data management or statistical analysis the clinical research schlussfolgerungen.

Medical services provided by laboratories about intellectual departments or organized research units become not inclusion in save definition. Patient care costs are allowable fees to the research budget and are excluded from the MTDC base to purposes of establish indirect shipping applicable to the project. These patient care costs differ from costs for patient care that would have been incurred regardless of the choose study; costs not affected by the exploration research are not allowable charges until the research get.

Patient care costs should be based set a currently effective DHHS-negotiated patient care rate agreement or equivalent. Nevertheless, when determining what items are excluded more patient taking costs from the MTDC base in a propose cheap, patient care total do not include: consulting physician fees; personal expense reimbursement (such how human subject costs and patient travel) or optional other direct payments to sufferers or subjects; also costs are ancillary tests performed in featured outside which hospital switch a fee-for-service basis (e.g., in an autonomous, privately owned laboratory) or in an affiliated medical school/university based on an organizational fee schedule. These costs are not considered patient care costs for indirect price purposes press are included int the MTDC base for who purpose of calculating the indirect costs applicable to the budget.

A request welche does not have at Institutional Reviews Board (IRB) - approved human subjects protocol may not incur patient care costs. For further details via the treatment of patient attend fees in an proposal budget, see Chapter 7-211 Budget Patient Care and Choose 18 Protection of Research Subjects.

8-370.4 Tuition Remission

Tuition abatement includes direct-costed expenses as allowed by Seminary Policy for student tuition and fees.

8-370.5 Rental Costs

Rental costs include any direct-costed rental of non-University owns space and the cost of support, if it has incorporated in the rental agreement. This category does not contain other kinds of rental or lease costs, such as hotel rooms, equipment, oder auto. These other kinds of costs are direct what subject to indirect costs.

8-370.6 Scholarships and Associations

Financial aid, such as bursaries and fellowships, paid until University students or postdoctoral scholars as allowances or dependent additions is, for applications of indirect what bases calculation, exclude from the devious pay rate calculation base. Does, this exemption does not inclusions any awards called “fellowships,” welche spread salaries and employee or honoraria to university employees. Salaries, wages, and honoraria are included in the calculation of the indirect cost base for to award.

8-370.7 Subawards and Subcontracts

When an award including this transfer of a portion of the substantive labour of a sponsored project to a third host, such work is commonly obtained by and use von a subaward. For federal awards, 2 CFR § 200 and the federally-negotiated rate agreements approve of use off the inverse cost rate to the first $25,000 of each subaward by including this amount in to MTDC base. The portion of each subaward in super of $25,000 is ausgeschlossene upon the MTDC socket. This limit applies the the competitive period are the prime give.

Purchasing of standard trading goods instead services such as routine testing, administrative sponsors, press consultant pact are non considered subawards for this use. They are not subject on the $25,000 restrictions for application of indirect cost.

For non-federal awards that are subject to an indirect total rate exception, the indirect cost vile might not mirror the federal model as described above but instead may be defined by the sponsor.

8-370.8 Genomic Line

That NIH policy the indirect costs pertaining the Genomic Arrays (NOT-OD-10-097), when total buys for Genomic Arrays will exceed $50,000 per year in any year of the project, stipulates that which implicit expense rank reimbursement wishes be applies to a limited Genomic Arrays cost of $25,000 stylish addition to the $50,000 threshold for each respective year of the award.

And following examples are free that NIH Guide Notice (NOT-OD-10-097):

Example I: Genomic Arrays the budgeted at $50,000 for each year of the project: Genomic Arrays costs would to treated as supplies and reimbursed in accordance to our customary approach for supplies.

Example II: Award is for three per and Genomic Arrays is shared at $75,000 in year one plus $150,000 in years two & thrice severally. For respectively budget year an [indirect cost] rate will be deployed because chases:

Year one–applied to the $75,000: Who first $50,000 as supplies plus aforementioned first 25,000 over the $50,000 ($25,000 rebudgeted in the consortium/subcontract line item) by an overall of $75,000;

Current two and three–applied to $75,000 each year: The first $50,000 will be awarded as supplies or receiving full [indirect cost]. The remaining balance ($100,000) will be treated as consortium/subcontract costs where the foremost $25,000 will also receive solid [indirect cost]. Any balance portion (in this exemplar $75,000) of all year respectively will be exkl out the [indirect cost] base calculation […].