RR Budget V1.3 (5 yr) & RR Budget 10 V 2-0(10 yr)

Please follow Proposal User Guide instructions for basic budgeting instructions. Cost Element mapping to Budget Categories in your local environment will impact where your expenses appear on these forms.  This guide sheet will provide some tips to understand where expenses appear and how to reassign Budget categories at the proposal level to meet sponsor budget requirements. See the budget details section for detailed budget category instructions.

 

 

Base Salary field for Senior Persons

The Base Salary by Period table provides a mechanism to control the Base Salary values that appear on certain Grants.gov Budget forms (RR Budget 5 & 10 year, Fed/Non-Fed Budget 5 & 10 Year).  Requirements for Use: Maintain an inflation rate factor in the parameter, but users may manually enter calculated values. Administrator role required to maintain the parameter DEFAULT_INFLATION_RATE_FOR_SALARY.

 

Using the Calculated Base Salary inflation tool:

The Project Personnel Details window tab contains the fields for base salaries per period:

•      Click the “calculate” button to have the system multiply the Base Salary field by the centrally maintained rate.

•      Or manually enter the base values you wish to appear on the RR Budget form.

The number of budget periods available is determined by the number of budget periods established. No more than 10 budget period fields will be provided as the Grants.gov budget forms provide only 5 or 10 budget periods.

 

 

Tips for Senior/Key Persons:

> For the 5 year budget: A maximum of eight (8) Senior/Key persons can appear in full detail in Section A. The PI is always listed in the first line. If your budget has more than 8 senior persons and Addition Senior Key Persons attachment will be automatically generated and submitted with this form. . (These will appear in the Attachments/ Proposal Narratives section of the proposal.)

> For the 10 Year Budget form: Section A: Senior/Key personnel can support up to 100 persons. Addition Senior Key Persons attachment will be automatically generated and submitted with this form.

 

Senior/Key Budget Person Order:

The order in which proposal person names appear in the Key Personnel screen is the order in which they will be published on forms AND in the Grants.gov (S2S) RR Budget section A Senior/Key Personnel. The  arrow/sort order tool allows the user to manipulate the sequence of these proposal persons to conform to sponsor instructions or to adjust the listing after synchronizing hierarchy proposals.
To change the order, click on the arrow icon   to move the proposal person up or down. The PI will always be listed first and cannot be moved. The last person listed will only have an up arrow; the first person listed will only have a down arrow; persons in the middle of the list will have both an up and a down arrow.

 

•      Persons maintained as the Investigator, Multi-PI, or Co-Investigator will always map to Key Person section, if applied to the budget (trumps budget category)

•      If your personnel cost element is NOT mapped to Senior Personnel but should be for a particular submission, change the Budget Category for this line item after you add the person to the budget person detail.

 

Other Personnel:

Other budget personnel will populate in this section, unless specifically mapped to the Stipend section.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuition is considered an “Other Direct Cost” by definition on this Budget form, and is grouped with other similar expenses in line 8.

 

H. Indirect Costs:

The indirect costs will be detailed by rate. If there are multiple applicable rates for the period, an indirect cost line will be populated for each rate.

Cognizant Federal Agency

The information (agency name, POC name and phone number) is populated from the proposal's Organization record, using the address book entry for the maintained cognizant auditor.

 

J. Fee: Generally, a fee is not allowed on a grant or cooperative agreement; we do support this field.

 

 

Budget Justification narrative file should be uploaded as a PDF file with the other proposal narratives. Select the correct narrative type for your budget form.

 

RR Budget (5 year) use: BudgetJustification (narrative ID 7)

RR Budget10 (10 year) use: Budget_Justification_10YR (narrative ID 132)

 

Prior Supported Versions:

1-1, 1-2.

The 10 year budget 1-3 (2-0) form increases the number of Key Persons to 100 (prior of 8); and Equipment lines to 100 (prior of 10). In older form versions, the system generates an “Additional Key Persons” and/or “Additional Equipment” narrative files to provide the details.