Public Service F & A

This section identifies which indirect cost rates will be applied to each Award Budget version.

The “applicable rates” are pre-populated with the default “institute rates” which are pulled in from an institutional rate table located within the Unit Hierarchy.

You may override the established/defaulted F&A rates (on a proposal and/or proposal version basis) by editing the Applicable Rates column. You can enter a different rate for each fiscal year.

Clicking the sync rates button ensures rates are up-to-date, which is particularly important when a proposal has been copied from an earlier proposal that may have utilized old rates.

All applicable rates will be applied to line item costs within the Expenses page. Calculations will be performed automatically, based on the following criteria: Object code (cost element) type, Unrecovered F&A Rate Type, OverHead Rate Type, & Activity Type.

Figure 936 Award Budget Document, Rates Page – Research F&A Section Example

Table 424 Award Budget Document, Rates Page – Research F&A Section Field Descriptions

Column/Button	Description
Description	The abbreviated name of the Research F&A rate type is displayed.
On Campus	Yes or No is displayed to indicate whether or not the rate type is on campus.
Fiscal Year	The associated fiscal year is displayed in yyyy format, and represents the fiscal year in which the Period Start Date falls.
Start Date	The Award Budget Period Start Date is displayed in mm/dd/yyyy format.
Institute Rate	The rates from the Unit Hierarchy rate table for the Activity Type of the Award Budget are displayed. If no activity type exists in the Award Details & Dates section of the Unit Hierarchy Institutional Rate table, 0.00 values are displayed.
Applicable Rate	Required. Institutional Rate values are populated and editable if override data has not been entered in the Award Rates section of the Commitments page. If no activity type exists in the Award Details & Dates section of the Unit Hierarchy Institutional Rate table, 0.00 values are displayed.
	Click the reset rates button to change all editable values in the column of a single budget to match the existing Institute Rate values (whether old or current – those which were brought in upon Award Budget creation or subsequent synchronization). Click the sync rates button to bring Institutional Rate and Applicable Rate columns on a single budget up to date with rates for the current budget period.