What is VMRF permitted under “Expanded Authority”?
Under Expanded Authorities, VMRF can do the following: Approve pre-award spending 90 days before NGA is issued if indication has been given that the grant will be funded. Allow carryover of un-obligated balances from one budget period to the next. Allow a no cost extension of final budget period up to a year without additional NIH funds). Transfer performance of substantive programmatic work to a third party (by consortium agreement). VMRF must exercise proper stewardship, as the NIH may disallow the costs if it determines through audit or otherwise, that the costs do not meet the parameters of allowability, allocability, reasonableness, necessity and consistency.
