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What you describe is the situation we have operated under for quite a few
years. Our facility has been totally recharge, run as a University Cost
Center. That is, we can neither make a profit nor lose money. Setting aside
$ for capital equipment purchase is not one of the allowable costs.
Rationale- Federal grants are given to perform work described, not to pay
for "future capability". Thus the costs of our Facility cannot include a
"capital fund" for new instruments.
Certainly shared grants are one way to get around this. Another way is to
borrow the $ (at Stanford this can be done through the department or dean's
office - when they are in a good mood) and then the cost of the loan is a
valid cost for recharge, since the researcher is getting to use the
equipment.
-Marty Bigos
Stanford Shared FACS Facility
On a somewhat related point to core management & funding, I am hearing at
our university that the federal government is saying we can not use
recharge money for the upgrading or purchasing of equipment???? Has anyone
else heard this? It doers't make any sense to me - it is the only money I
have for small equipment addition to existing core facilities without
writing a shared instrument or small instrument grant. Any light anyone
can shed on this would be helpful.
Sue DeMaggio
UC Irvine
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