752 - Contracts at the Proposal Stage

As discussed previously, contract awards are just another type of award that an institution receives. The regulations governing contracts, however, are different in many respects from those that govern grants, and this is where an institution can encounter difficulty — in situations where it doesn’t account for these differences in its administration of contract awards. Individuals on the pre-award side of research administration are familiar with various agency proposal guidelines for those sponsors to which they submit the most proposals. They are accustomed to solicited proposals, where a sponsor has requested applications for a specific program, with a specific deadline,… Read More