Sponsored Projects and Business Management
Management of project funding is complicated and changes rapidly. Rules and terms vary by sponsor, and a single sponsor can even use different sets for different types of award mechanisms. To help CHOP investigators navigate these and other challenges that arise throughout the life-cycle of funding, SPRBM provides each with two key resources: their Sponsored Projects Officer (SPO) and their Research Business Manager (RBM). On the behalf of faculty, Sponsored Projects Officers (SPO) serve as CHOP's negotiators and advocates with funders and any other external entity sponsoring projects. They also guide researchers on application submissions, grants and sub-award management and institutional approvals and are responsible for institutional sign-offs. Research Business Managers (RBM) develop budgets and spending plans for faculty, in addition to providing account oversight, including cost monitoring, salary allocations, and project close-out. They serve as the researcher's financial advisors.
Contacts:
- Sara Dubberly, director
- Phone: 267-426-0122
- Email: stokes@email.chop.edu
- Robert Denight, assistant director, Sponsored Projects
- Phone: 267-426-0122
- Email: stokes@email.chop.edu
- Brigid Czyszczon, assistant director, Research Business Management
- Phone: 215-590-4700
- Email: stokes@email.chop.edu
Information for collaborating institutions on Hospital fringe benefit and Facilities and Administrative (F&A) rates is available in the table below:
Current Fringe Benefit and F&A Rates for The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
| Rate Agreement Date: December 30, 2009 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Facilities and Administrative Cost Rates Chart | |||||
| Applicable to | 7/1/09-6/30/10 | 7/1/10 -6/30/11 | 7/1/11 - 6/30/12 | 7/1/12 until amended | Base |
| Predetermined | Predetermined | Predetermined | Provisional | ||
| Organized Research on-site | 66% | 67.5% | 67.5% | 67.5% | MTDC |
| Organized Research off-site | 35% | 35% | 35% | 35% | MTDC |
| Other Sponsored Activity on-site | 45.5% | 45.5% | 45.5% | 45.5% | MTDC |
| Other Sponsored Activity off-site | 35% | 35% | 35% | 35% | MTDC |
| Corporate Clinical Trial Agreements | 25% | 25% | 25% | 25% | TDC |
| Sponsored Research Corporate | 66% | 67.5% | 67.5% | 67.5% | MTDC |
Fringe Benefit Rates | |||||
| Applicable to | 7/1/09 - 6/30/10 | 7/1/10 - 6/30/11 | 7/1/11 - 6/30/12 | 7/1/12 until amended | Base |
| Predetermined | Predetermined | Predetermined | Provisional | ||
| Pediatrics Faculty | 21.7 | 21.7 | 21.7 | 21.7 | Salary & Wages |
| Other Faculty | 17.5 | 17.5 | 17.5 | 17.5 | Salary & Wages |
| CHOP Employees | 27.1 | 27.1 | 27.1 | 27.1 | Salary & Wages |
| Practice Plan Employees | 26.9 | 26.9 | 26.9 | 26.9 | Salary & Wages |
| Treatment of paid absences:
Vacation, holiday, sick leave and other paid absences are part of the normal cost for salaries and wages. Fringe benefits include: FICA, disability insurance, life insurance, tuition remission, pension costs, Workers' compensation, unemployment insurance and health insurance. MTDC: Total direct costs excluding capital expenditures, subawards in excess of $25,000 and patient care costs. TDC: Total direct costs. Off-site rate applies only when rent or lease costs are paid as a direct cost on an award. | |||||
