CPRIT Awards & Management

Leanne B. Scott, Director, Sponsored Programsand

Chryll Batiste, Manager, Grants & Contracts Accounting

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

AGENDA

CGMS WebsiteContract Documents and Award ProcessManagement Issues

◦Financial – Quarterly FSR / Invoicing◦Annual Reports◦Change Requests◦No Cost Extensions◦Closeout

Questions

https://cpritgrants.org

Not only the PI, but any admin who needs to help with financial or programmatic reporting should have a login

After an Award is made, then you get a new Tab called “My Grants”

Acronyms:

CARS = CPRIT Application Receipt System

CGMS = CPRIT Grants Management System

Home shows your To Do List

You may not realize that action needs to be done if the document or form is not assigned to you

Click on the actual grant number to see all the various sub Tabs, the actions that are needed, and who they are currently assigned to

Likewise you may need to Delegate action to other people listed in the Contacts

Managing the SO Cue

Cue needs to be Actionable itemsNeed to monitor it at least weeklyAdd Contacts of additional Grants

Contract/Office of Sponsored Programs Official: at least 2 - for Programmatic and Financial reports management

Delegate web forms to be completed and then item is sent back for final approval

Follow progress in the View/Hide Notes

Delegate Future DocumentsAfter the Annual FSR is approved, the CGMS system auto-generates ALL the next year’s annual reports: AIR, HUB, SAD, etc.

The SO To Do List just gets too long to manage

Have 2nd person in SPO staff create a login and Delegate the reports that are not due for a year to them

Then every quarter move the next set back into the active To Do List Cue

Grant Tabs

Grant Info = SummaryContacts = MUST be added or cannot do anything onlineDocuments = Programmatic itemsCorrespondence = only CPRIT uses it, use internal emailBUDGET = Financial items – many subtabsProgress Reports = has it’s own set of subtabsChange Requests = only appears after awarded

Budget Sub-Tabs

Budget SummaryDetails for each YearPersonnel Level of Effort – Have to keep updatedFinancial Status Reports – Submit quarterly to be reimbursedPayments – additional summary infoOther Financial Reports: AIR, HUB, RSR and SAD

CPRIT Help and GuidesAdditional Information and Guides are available from the CPRIT website

http://www.cprit.state.tx.us/funded-grants/grantee-resources/

ALSO their help desk can be reached by phone or email:

866-941-7146

help@cpritgrants.org

Accepting the AwardSTEP 1

10 DocumentsThere are 10 documents in total that need to be completed and that will compile into the final Research Contract

They start in the Signing Official (SO) cue and then get Delegated to PI or Admin

CGMS records date and time stamps of the approvals

PI should always Verify and send to SO for final approval and then it goes to CPRIT

SPO (Sponsored Programs Office) reviews and approves the following right away:

Base Contract: Checking for correct PI, dates and amount of funding

Attachment C1 – Assurances and Certifications

Attachment D – IP and Revenue SharingAttachment E – Reporting Requirements

Attachment AScope of Work (SOW) and Timeline will auto fill from the Application but PI needs to Verify it is correct

Existing Awards will have to add the new style of Goals and Objectives as a Change Request

Call SPO first if you think you need to change your Aims

PI needs to fill in 3 documents

Negotiate Budget Summary for all years. Auto fills from application. Changes should be Justified. The total number of characters and spaces in the Justification cannot exceed 5000. Don’t cut and paste from Word, use a simple text processer so hidden characters will not be present.

Negotiate Personnel Level of Effort. Anyone being paid off the grant should be listed and be added to the BRAIN proposal, and be on the RCOI Assurance letter. If TBA from the application are now known, they should be added at this time. Enter TBA in the online system or you will not be able to invoice for that position when you fill it.

Duplication of Effort and Project Overlap Form. The PI has to choose one answer, and send to SO to then approve and submit to CPRIT.

Final Steps

SPO Approves CPRIT Activates

Final CPRIT approved Budget comes back for confirmation as Attachment B

SPO will prepare and submit Attachment C2 – Matching Compliance Certification once the final budget has been approved.

Executive Officer is notified to review all the Contract Documents

Once his approval is received, then the online status of the grant is changed to Active, and SPO funds the proposal and Accounting sets up an account.

Build a Complete Contract

Use Adobe to combine the various pdf document files into one complete contract◦Email “All Contract Documents Approved”◦Base Contract◦Attachment A = SOW◦Timeline◦Attachment B = Budget◦Attachment C2 = Matching◦C, D and E (previously combined)

◦No negotiating the basic contract documents, so you can use the same set for awards within the same typeie. Research vs Prevention vs Recruitment

Managing the AwardSTEP 2

CPRIT Rules to Live By

Each report or document is considered programmatic, financial or other change request

In general: Programmatic > Financial > Change requests.

If something is overdue it will hold up everything else regardless of #2.

Timing is Everything

You can have multiple reports/requests working at once.◦Ex: Prog Rep and FSR can go in together

But those that depend on approval of another will be disapproved or will sit in CPRITs cue until it is cleared

And you cannot submit the Report when a Request is waiting, so Catch 22!

Financial Status Reports (FSR)

Monthly Monitoring

Accounting should run monthly reports for each grant and monitor that spending is in the correct categories and has not exceeded the approved budget.

CPRIT requires amounts to match to the penny!

Quarterly Invoicing

Keep good back up records such as travel documents, equipment or subcontract invoices, quotes or contracts

Submit copies of any invoices over $750 to Accounting

Rebudgeting Requests

Moving funds between existing categories is allowable so long as it does not exceed 10% of the total award.

You still have to submit a revised budget and justification to CPRIT or they will not allow the charges when the FSR gets submitted.

Changes greater than 10% will require approval by CPRIT.

Changes to Travel or Equipment

Change - Not Otherwise Specified Requests: Certain items like equipment or travel that were not originally in the budget or wish to increase must be pre-approved by CPRIT before these charges can be incurred.

Contact Postaward Office first if you want to do any Financial Changes.

Carry Forward Requests

Annually, AFTER the last FSR has been approved for the last year, THEN you can Request Carry Forward.

It is not automatic. In addition to the budget numbers, a Justification that includes answers to 3 questions must be submitted.

After approval, THEN you can Rebudget funds into different categories if needed.

3 questions for Justification

1) How do the carry forward of funds fit into the scope of the project? Briefly explain.

2) Will the carry forward funds materially change the nature, performance level, or project scope or work plan? If yes, briefly explain.

3) Will the carry forward of funds affect your ability to meet your performance measure projection? If yes, briefly explain.

Annual ReportsSTEP 3

Progress Reports

SPO requires a Non-competing proposal to monitor compliance issues like protocols and COI on an annual basis.

The online Report and the “N” proposal should be submitted together and will be approved together.

CPRIT report should be submitted right after the year ends in order to allow time for all the approvals to occur.

Progress Report Tabs

Do NOT change Status from Draft to Complete until you are really done. Similar to the Application stage, SPO will have to help you unlock.

View Notes and Comments is a useful feature to see the routing history of any document as well as any comments made by reviewers.

Other Annual Reports

Finance Approves SPO Approves

Annual Inventory Report (AIR)

Historically Underutilized Businesses (HUB)

Budget VerificationRevised Contract

Attachment B - Budget

Single Audit Determination (SAD) Form

Revenue Sharing Report (RSR) Form

Revised Contract Attachment C Part2 - Matching Compliance Certification

Change RequestsSTEP 4

ORDER is Important!

Have to do changes well before anything is due so there is time for it to be approved. Otherwise, a pending Request can prevent a Report from being submitted.

Programmatic Changes

Contract Amendment Change Request: To Change the PI, or any terms found in the Contract, then an Attachment F to the contract will be created and then after approval by all parties becomes an Amendment to the Contract.

PLOE Changes

Change in Key Personnel Level of Effort: People can be added, deleted and the percent of effort on the project changed by updating the online table and providing a Justification. Includes ALL investigators.

CPRIT defines Key, everyone else is Other

Key: PI, Co-I and SubPI

Non-Key Personnel Changes or changes in Effort: You can upload the form found on the CPRIT website in the Ad Hoc Documents section.

This form has to be signed by the ASO

Allows you to update post docs, students, techs, TBAs and such

No Cost Extension

No Cost Extensions will only be allowed for 6 months

You can only request them between 90 to 30 days before the end date.

Requires an Attachment F Amendment to the Contract so many steps to approve

No funds are available until after FSR and Carry Forward is approved

Takes about 3 months to put in place

Close OutSTEP 5

Takes the Team! PI, Admin, SPO, Acct and Licensing

Final FSR is due 90 days after end date(quarterly due 90 days after)

Final Progress Report is due 90 days after(annual due 60 days after)

ALL other Reports are like Progress Reports◦ Final annual inventory report ◦ Final HUB report

IP report form — may submit after closeout Revenue sharing form — may submit after closeout

SUMMARYBCM In-House Deadlines

Monthly monitoring of expensesQuarterly FSR due 30 days after the

quarter end dateQuarterly Prevention reports due 7 days

after the quarter end dateAnnual Reports due 15 days after end of

grant yearNCE Request 60 days before end date

Audience Advice

Any tips to share?Best practices?Things to avoid?War stories?

Questions?

Financial Questions such as FSR, HUB, AIR, Carry Forward or Rebudgeting◦Chryll Batiste, Manager Accounting◦cbatiste@bcm.edu

Programmatic Questions such as Contract, Reports, Special Documents or NCE requests◦Leanne Scott, Director, Sponsored Programs◦lbscott@bcm.edu