No. 84-9
Supplement 1
June 21, 1984
Subject: Indirect Cost Rate Negotiation Agreements for Each Campus--Inclusion of Human Subject Fees in Modified Total Direct Cost Base
Enclosed is a copy of correspondence with the Department of Health and Human Services confirming that human subject fees should be included in the Modified Total Direct Cost Base for purposes of calculating appropriate indirect costs. For further information, refer to Contract and Grant Memo No. 84-9, dated March 30, 1984, Subject: Indirect Cost Rate Negotiation Agreements for Each Campus. Section I, Rates, of the Rate Agreement specifies the Modified Total Direct Costs Base to which the indirect cost rates apply. Please file this Supplement I with Contract and Grant Memo 84-9.
Refer: Barbara Yoder
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Subject Index: 08, 18
Organization Index: U-115
David F. Mears
University Contracts and Grants Coordinator
Enclosure
cc:
Chancellors
Vice Chancellor-Research
Laboratory Contracts and Grants Officers
Accounting Officers
Internal Auditors
Senior Vice President Frazer
Vice President Baker
Major DOE Lab Associate Directors for Administration
March 27, 1984
Mr. Gary Logsdon, Senior Negotiator
Division of Cost Allocation
Department of Health and Human Services
50 United Nations Plaza
San Francisco, CA 94102
Dear Mr. Logsdon:
It was recently brought to my attention that Ms. Carole Tully, grants management specialist for the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse, has questioned whether or not indirect costs are applicable to human subject fees. These fees, as I understand them, are monies paid to human subjects for their continued participation in and commitment to the completion of the research project. They are not patient care costs.
I believe indirect cost apply to these fees for the following reasons:
1) They were included the base when the rate was calculated. To exclude them from the application of the rate would be a change in procedures not anticipated in the negotiation agreement;
2) They are equivalent to services. Premature withdrawal from the project would prevent the successful completion of the research; and
3) They are not paid through the hospital, as are patient care costs; therefore, no other indirect costs have been associated with the human subject fees.
Would you please indicate your concurrence with the above by signing the original of this letter and returning it to me. I will distribute your response to the campus Contract and Grant Officers to minimize the administrative problems associated with this question.
Concurrence by:
Gary B. Logsdon
(Type name) on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services
cc: Vice President Brady
University Controller Pastrone
Stephen E. Selby
Director
Financial Analysis Office