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COGR Letter to OMB Seeks Amendment to Payment Provision

November 1, 2017 – 6:50 am

The 2017 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Compliance Supplement has been available for a couple of months now, but one group now is strongly urging OMB to make a change to it. For that matter, it also want to…

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Research Organizations Blast DOE’s Onerous Award Requirements

July 26, 2017 – 7:48 am

Several organizations representing research universities expressed frustration with the Department of Energy’s (DOE) onerous requirements placed on federal awards to research institutions. Earlier this month, the Association of American Universities, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and the Council on…

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Sneak Preview: Associations Applaud Micro-Purchase Legislation

January 6, 2017 – 9:09 am

(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) A provision in a bill passed by Congress that would raise the current micro-purchase procurement threshold for research programs and entities could help relieve administrative burdens…

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COGR Requests More Time To Comply with NIH Good Clinical Practice Policy

October 10, 2016 – 10:49 am

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently issued its Policy on Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Training for NIH Awardees Involved in NIH-funded Clinical Trials, but many research universities fear that the implementation date of the policy — Jan. 1, 2017…

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Coming Up! A Revised FAQ and Several Important Grants Events

September 6, 2016 – 10:49 pm

Now that Labor Day has come and gone and many of us are back from our summer vacations, we can now look forward to September and ask the question, “What’s coming up in the near future for the grants community?”…

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Sneak Preview: COGR Blasts NSF OIG’s Data Collection Plan

January 4, 2013 – 7:00 am

(The following was excerpted from an article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) A coalition of research universities is balking at a plan by the National Science Foundation’s Office of Inspector General to collect data to determine if awardee institutions…

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