Contracts

The Office of the Controller, in partnership with Contracts & Grants Administration and Project Portfolio Financial Management, has developed an expenditure general allowability table for Contract and Grant expenditures based upon the Code of Federal Regulations 200 (“CFR200”), Subpart E – Cost Principles. This is in response to UC Merced’s recent NSF audit findings regarding expenditure control enhancements to ensure only allowable costs are charged to extramural funds.

NSF Discipline Code Required for All Project Attributes

The Office of the Controller receives numerous requests for exceptions to policy every week. We would like to reiterate that exceptions to policy should be infrequent in nature and must align to a bona fide University business purpose.

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Effort reports for Spring 2021 have been generated and are available to those on campus with an effort certification role. All investigators on federal or federal flow-through funded sponsored agreements are responsible for certifying the amount of effort they and their employees spend on sponsored activities.