New F&A Rates

Help – New FY 2020 F&A Rates

ECU has announced new F&A rates.  See FAQs from REDE for guidance on if/when/how you are to use the new rates.  Here is what that means for your proposals in development in eTRACS:

Your proposal is in development and you will be using the new F&A rate

Your proposal will not automatically apply the new rate in your proposal budget.  The proposal developer must navigate to the proposal budget and re-apply the F&A to reflect the new rates.

Your proposal is already routing for final review and you need to update to a new F&A rate

Your designated ORA Pre-Award representative or the Clinical Trial’s Office can assist you in updating the budget, or, can return the proposal to you for correction.  Significant changes could require the proposal to re-route.  ORA and CTO will work with the PI and/or hub administrator to determine the best method to update the proposal budget with the new rate.

Your proposal is in development or routing and you will be using the previously published rates

Proposal development can continue.  If no further edits need to be made to the budget prior to submission, then the proposal can be left alone.  However, if the budget requires edits and changes, the F&A dollars will start to adjust towards the new rate.  To reflect the previous rate, the proposal developer will need to follow steps to applying a custom/manual F&A rate found in the eTRACS budget development guidance.

Your proposal has waived or is using a reduced F&A rate

The new rates will not affect this proposal and development can continue as normal.  The proposal developer will follow the standard steps of applying a reduced F&A rate found in the budget development guidance.

Your proposal is using the off-campus rate of 26%

Nothing changes for this proposal.  The F&A tab in your proposal budget does not need to be adjusted as the new off-campus rate is equivalent to the previously published rate.