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The primary services provided by the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) include:
Proposal Services (Proposal Review and Submission)
  • Review RFP/Solicitation to ensure compliance with sponsor requirements
  • Liaison and service provider to internal and external stakeholders, including principal investigators, administrators, program officers, grants officials and colleagues
  • Interprets research policies and university and sponsor requirements
  • Proposal review, processing and submission to sponsor
Contract Services (Contract Review and Negotiations)
  • Review and negotiate award contracts, terms and conditions
  • Draft and negotiate contracts for funding
  • Draft and negotiate non-financial agreements
  • Liaison with general counsel鈥檚 office, sponsor鈥檚 contract officer, and other internal stakeholders
Subawards (Issuing Outgoing Subawards)
  • Manages subaward application forms
  • Conducts Risk Assessment
  • Creates and issues outgoing subawards per the award/contract terms
  • Negotiates subaward terms
  • Manages FFATA and subcontracting plan reporting
Award Management
  • Provide guidance to researchers and staff to ensure proper stewardship of research funding
  • Facilitate post-award requests and approvals to/from sponsor for no cost extensions (NCE), budget modifications, modifications to the scope of work, changes to key personnel, decrease in PI effort, the transferring in/out of awards and any changes that require prior approval by the sponsor
  • Review Sponsored Programs Exemption requests for purchases on sponsored accounts to determine if an exemption to the state鈥檚 bid requirements is allowable
  • Conduct initial compliance review of all awards and ensure that human subjects, animal use, environmental health & safety, biosafety, export control, financial conflict of interest and responsible conduct of research (RCR) training compliance is in place
  • Facilitate the submission of progress and final technical reports to the sponsor when the reports must be submitted by Florida Atlantic鈥檚 authorized official
Other
  • Conduct information/training sessions and workshops for faculty and staff

For more information contact: sponsoredprograms@fau.edu