By the Numbers
Grant Smorgasbord
Who Does What?
Compliance Corner
Mixed Bag
100
10% MTDC allowed on federal budgets when the applicant does not yet have a negotiated F&A rate.

What is the de minimis F&A rate?

100
The federal agency that requires applicants to define what is meant by a "Year" in the proposal budget justification.
What is the NSF?
100
This central UC Berkeley office that reviews and submits proposals to industry and other for-profit sponsors.
What is the Industry Alliance Office or IAO?
100
This institutional committee reviews and approves the use of live vertebrate animals in teaching and research.
What is the Animal Care and Use Committee or ACUC?
100

Effort or resources contributed to a sponsored project beyond that which is committed and budgeted for in a sponsored agreement. 

What is Voluntary Uncommitted Cost Sharing?
200

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What is UC Berkeley's Dun and Bradstreet DUNS number?

200

This federal agency directed by Congress to “delay enforcement” of a new policy that would reclassify basic research involving humans as “clinical trials”. 

What is the NIH?
200
The office that requires purchases of $100K or more go out for bid. 
What is SCM?
200

Proposals with a final administrative section and a final or draft technical section received by SPO at least five business days before the sponsor’s deadline AND a final/corrected technical and administrative sections received by SPO at least 16 business hours before the sponsor’s deadline.

What is a First Priority proposal?
200
A subrecipient added after the award is received. 
What is an After-the-Fact subrecipient?
300
At UC Berkeley, July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019
What is Fiscal Year 2019?
300

Founder of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Who is Ernest Lawrence?
300
This central campus office that requires a 9% full costing rate be applied to incoming funds for work for hire activities.  
What is the Business Contracts and Brand Protection Office (BCBP) ?
300

The release of controlled technology to foreign persons within the U.S. who are not U.S. citizens, do not have permanent resident status, and are not considered "protected individuals."


What is a "deemed" export?



300

An internal tool that provides UC Berkeley Principal Investigators and Co-PIs as well as research administration staff with a searchable interface to the records and the status of individual proposals and awards.

What is Phoebe Search?

400
1608 Fourth Street 
What is SPO's new street address?
400

The Berkeley Organized Research Unit established to foster research in space-related sciences and to provide education for the next generation of space scientists. 

What is the Space Sciences Laboratory?
400

The federal agency that requires all students and postdoctoral researchers who are included as research personnel on their awards to receive training in the responsible conduct of research (RCR) within the time period of the grant.

What is the NSF?

*Based on the America COMPETES (America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science) Act.

400
This financial disclosure form requires a "wet signature."
What is the 700U?
400

A new interface that must be used to create a Grants.gov application. 

What is Workspace?
500

Section 501(c)(3)

The IRS code that exempts public, nonprofit educational institutions from most federal income taxes.

500

Legislation calling for standardized proposal content requirements for State of California contracts and grants.

What is AB20? 
500

The current and 14th director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). 


Who is Dr. France A. Córdova?

Also Chancellor emerita of UC Riverside and former VCR at UCSB.

500

Effective October 1st, 2017, NIH automatically began to supply this type of certificate for NIH-funded research projects that collect and use identifiable, sensitive information.

What is a Certificate of Confidentiality (CoC)? 
500
Repeatedly submitting proposals to external sponsors without review and approval by SPO/IAO.
What is a Type 2 policy violation?
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