Grants & Contracts Accounting

Grants & Contracts Accounting (G&C) is responsible for the post award administration of sponsored awards.

G&C works closely with departmental business offices, business support staff, and faculty members to ensure financial compliance and proper accounting of externally sponsored funds. G&C's responsibilities include award setup, financial reporting, cost transfer reviews, cash management (including Letter of Credit (LOC) draws, non LOC sponsor invoicing, sponsor payments, accounts receivable), financial analysis, audits, reviews, and award closeouts. G&C also manages prior approval requests including but not limited to No Cost Extensions, Relinquishment/Award Transfer, Change of PI, and Carry Forward from one budget period into the next within a project period.

Research Administration News

Minimum Effort Commitment on Sponsored Projects

The Division of Research & Economic Development would like to inform you of an important update regarding the minimum effort requirement on sponsored projects at the University of North Dakota (UND). Effective immediately, Dr. Scott Snyder, Vice President for Research & Economic Development, has approved a reduction in the minimum effort requirement from 5% to […]

Executive Level II Salary Increase

On January 22, 2025, the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) released NOT-HS-25-015 which gave notice of the new salary cap effective January 1, 2025. The AHRQ salary cap increases to $225,700. The AHRQ notice states: The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 restricts the amount of direct salary to Executive Level II of the Federal […]

Research & Sponsored Program Development (RSPD)

Novelution Training & Updates RSPD manages the online proposal submission system, developed by Novelution, and will be offering training and providing updates for faculty and staff. UND has used the Novelution online proposal submission system for the development and internal routing of proposals for sponsored funding since 2019. There have been updates to the system […]

Grants & Contracts Accounting (G&C)

Training Updates No Cost Extensions (NCE) The NCE Policy was retired and replaced in PolicyStat with a new NCE Procedure. The new process removes RSPD and the Request for Modification to a Sponsored Project form and is replaced by an email request that is processed through the G&C Grants Officer. Training dates and times will […]

Federal Sponsor Updates & Reminders

Upcoming Multifactor Authentication requirement for Research.gov. – As part of NSF’s ongoing commitment to enhancing security and safeguarding NSF’s IT systems, user accounts, personal and scientific data, and the integrity of the merit review process, effective on October 27, 2024, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is implementing multifactor authentication (MFA) for Research.gov. With the growing […]

	
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