Sponsored Programs Administration Guidebook
This guidebook includes all of the information previously found on the UNMC SPAdmin website.
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About Us
Sponsored Programs Administration (SPAdmin) offers services to faculty and grant administrators t...
Purpose & Responsibilities
Purpose SPAdmin’s purpose is three-fold: To facilitate a principal investigators’ pursuit and...
Staff Listing & Dept Assignments
SPAdmin is under the direction of the Vice Chancellor for Research and is organized as follows: ...
Institutional Information
The following table contains institutional information that is frequently requested by sponsors, ...
Grants
Effective sponsored project management is a collaboration among Principal Investigator(s); Depart...
Internal Deadlines
To reduce the risk of a proposal missing the sponsor’s deadline or being withdrawn for non-respon...
Pre-Award Guidelines
SPAdmin can assist you with many aspects of developing and submitting a proposal. Once you ident...
Just In Time
“Just in Time” refers to the period after application submission and peer review and before selec...
Award Set-up
When a notice of award is received, SPAdmin and SPAcctng work with the department to set up the a...
Post Award Guidelines
Reporting Requirements Technical The PI is responsible for preparing the technical report. Eit...
Award Close-Out
After the funded project is complete, UNMC must administratively close out the project with the s...
Subcontracts
When an investigator at UNMC is collaborating with an investigator at another organization, the o...
Industry Contracts
SPAdmin negotiates a wide range of research-related agreements on behalf of UNMC faculty-investig...
Roles & Responsibilities
As soon as you determine interest in a particular project or study, be sure to contact your depar...
Industry Sponsored Clinical Research
Clinical research is defined as research that involves human subjects as participants and/or requ...
Industry-Sponsored Non-Clinical Research
Industry-sponsored contracts must be reviewed and negotiated before being signed. SPA negotiates ...
Confidential Disclosure Agreements (CDAs or NDAs)
Confidential Disclosure Agreements – also known as Non-disclosure Agreements, CDAs or NDAs – prot...
Other Contract Types
In addition to negotiating industry-sponsored research agreements, SPAdmin negotiates many other ...
Clinical Trials
Information relevant to clinical trials can be found on the pages within this section. While SPAd...
Policies
Administration of sponsored programs requires compliance with applicable UNMC and sponsor policie...
UNMC-specific Policies
A partial listing of frequently referenced policies related to grants and contracts administratio...
Sponsor-specific Policies
Federal Uniform Guidance Effective December 26, 2014 the Office of Management and...
F&A Rates Policy
UNMC Facilities and Administration (F&A) Rates (formerly known as Indirect Cost Rates) The full...
Use of Embryonic Stem Cells
In accordance with all Federal Guidelines, the University of Nebraska and Board of Regents policy...
NDAA Whistleblower Notice
Pilot Program for Enhancement of Employee Whistleblower Protections In order to encourage employ...
NIH Data Management & Sharing Policy
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a new data management & sharing (DMS) policy to...
Forms, Templates, and Electronic Systems
Internal forms are a means for providing needed information to SPAdmin and SPAcctng and for docum...
Training
SPAdmin offers a number of formal and informal educational opportunities for departmental adminis...