Must applicants that wish to receive indirect costs use a restricted indirect cost rate?
No, for this grant competition, you may charge indirect costs using the rate negotiated with your cognizant federal agency (e.g., Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of the Interior). Note: Because these grants are not research grants, it is not appropriate to use the institutional research indirect cost rate. Instead, you should use the appropriate program or operations rate specified in your institution’s federally-approved indirect cost rate agreement in your proposed project budgets. You are encouraged to give priority to actual grant implementation activities by limiting the indirect costs charged to the project. You will not be penalized for failure to reduce indirect costs nor will you gain a competitive advantage if you do. If you claim indirect costs in the budget for your proposed project and do not have a negotiated rate with the federal government, you have 90 days from the time you transmit your application to submit the necessary p
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- Must applicants that wish to receive indirect costs use a restricted indirect cost rate?
