Subaward

The Subaward document is an e-doc can be used to document the financial assistance or procurement agreement. The document is used to record the subaward activities which can support Institutional and government audit requirements.

It is helpful for you to understand the trigger or circumstance that initiates the need to use the functions of the Subaward document, and the fundamentals of its life cycle – when it is required, who completes it, its routing, etc.

This topic covers the following sections:  Overview; Completion Process; Flow Diagram; Routing and Status; Example Scenario; and links to Related Information.

It is followed by subtopics by page containing detailed documentation on each page, section, subsection and field for this e-doc.

 

In this topic:

Business Needs and Purpose

Policy

Maintenance Requirements for the FDP Templates

Roles and Responsibilities

Document Layout

Introduction

Scope

Before You Begin

Navigation Path

Workflow Status

Document Status

Jump to page subtopics:

Subaward

Financial

Custom Data

Template Information

Subaward Actions

Medusa

Update an Existing Subaward

 

 

Business Needs and Purpose

The Subaward document is completed whenever:

      you need to document information about approved & funded subawards to comply with sponsor & federal regulations that require award recipients to receive sponsor approval prior to issuing a subaward to another organization

      you need to view funded Subaward status information that is associated with an Award document from within the Award document

The Subaward document is used to:

      document sponsor approval of subawards on a selected award and view the status of subawards that have been funded by a selected award

      reference information when approving outgoing subawards to ensure compliance with sponsor and university requirements by personnel responsible for monitoring sponsored awards

Policy

The policy statements that pertain to this activity are:

      Federal:  Per OMB A-110 Subpart C.25.c (8), also referenced in 2 CFR 215.25 (c) (8), recipients shall request prior approvals from Federal awarding agencies for the subaward, transfer or contracting out of any work under an award, unless described in the application and funded in the approved awards. This provision does not apply to the purchase of supplies, material, equipment or general support services.

Recipients are responsible for managing and monitoring each subaward funded by the prime award. Subaward monies must be maintained and accounted for separately and in accordance with applicable federal flow-down regulations. Recipients are also required to ensure subrecipients have met audit requirements. The functionality for administration of each subaward will be covered in a later release within the scope of the KC Subcontract Module.

      Institutional Special Cases:  Each institution may have requirements regarding subawards in addition to the requirements set forth by OMB A-110 and/or the sponsoring agency. If they are more restrictive, these terms and conditions may take precedence over federal and sponsor regulations. For example, if a non-federal sponsor is silent regarding prior approval for subawards, the Institution may still have a requirement for prior approval or notification that must be followed.

Maintenance Requirements for using the FDP Template Printing feature

ALERT: There are several maintenance tasks that need to be completed to support the subaward module. Some are a result of the 5.2.1 enhancement to generate FDP Agreements and Modifications from the subcontract records (KRACOEUS-6072).

 

1. Update Maintenance Documents: Several Maintenance document tables should to be maintained whether or not your institution plans to use the form generation tool. For example, the Contact Usage table makes the selection of contacts presented in the Award and Subaward modules easier for the end user. Maintenance >  Shared > Contact Usage

2. Upload Templates. In order to utilize the FDP Agreements and Modifications feature, templates must be uploaded in the Maintenance > Subawards > Subaward Forms

3. Maintain Parameters. Code numbers for contacts and Template ID’s for attachments must be updated from the neutral values in the parameter table to support the FDP Agreements and Modifications. System Admin > Parameter

Figure 1510 Maintenance page> Subawards section

 

Subaward Maintenance Tables

Closeout Type

Items added in the Closeout Type code table appear in the drop-down selection list in the Subawards document > Subaward tab > Closeout panel.

 

Maintenance > Subawards > Closeout Type out of the box types:

Closeout Type

Description

1

10.2B Closeout of Subaward

2

10.2C1 Final Payment under Subaward: Financial Assistance

3

10.2C2 Final Payment under Subaward: Federal Contracts

4

10.2D1 Transmittal of Final Patent Report

5

10.2.D2 Transmittal of Residual Property Report

6

10.2F Subcontractor's Release: Subaward Federal Contracts

7

10.2G Subcontractor's Assignment of Refunds, Rebates, Credits, and other...

8

Audit Requested

9

Audit Completed

10

Negative Assurance Letter

11

Closeout Complete

12

Files Sent to Archives

13

Files Destroyed

 

Subaward Approval Type

This table is an artifact from the MIT Coeus Subcontracts module and is not directly utilized in the KC Subaward module. The primary key (subAwardApprovalTypeCode) of table SUBAWARD_APPROVAL_TYPE is used as a foreign key in the following tables and has references in their corresponding business objects:

      table: AWARD_SUBAWARD_TERMS business object: AwardSubAwardTerms

      table: TEMPLATE_SUBAWARD_TERMS business object: TemplateSubAwardTerms

Maintenance > Subawards > Closeout Type out of the box types

 

Subaward Forms

The subaward forms are accessed by the user in the Subawards module > Subaward Actions tab > Print panel.

 

Subaward Forms Maintenance table - a user with the appropriate system administrator permissions can maintain boilerplate XML style sheets with entries in the Subaward Forms table via Maintenance documents.  Note: the Template Types are maintained separately with the maintenance doc: Subaward Template Type.

Maintenance > Subawards > Subaward Forms: forms provided out-of-the-box for KC are:

Form ID

Description

Template Type

FDP_AFOSR

AFOSR Attachment

FDP Sponsor Attachment

FDP_ARO

ARO Attachment

FDP Sponsor Attachment

FDP_DOE

DOE Attachment

FDP Sponsor Attachment

FDP_EPA

EPA Attachment

FDP Sponsor Attachment

FDP Template

FDP Agreement

FDP Template

FDP_ATT_3B

FDP Attachment 3B

FDP Template Attachment

FDP_ATT_3B_2

FDP Attachment 3BPage2

FDP Template Attachment

FDP_ATT_4

FDP Attachment 4

FDP Template Attachment

FDP_NASA

NASA Attachment

FDP Sponsor Attachment

FDP_NIH

NIH Attachment

FDP Sponsor Attachment

FDP_NSF

NSF Attachment

FDP Sponsor Attachment

FDP_ONR

ONR Attachment

FDP Sponsor Attachment

FDP_USDA

USDA Attachment

FDP Sponsor Attachment

FDP Modification

Template for FDP Modification

FDP Template

FDP_ATT_3A

FDP Attachment 3A

FDP Template Attachment

FDP_AMRMC

AMRMC Attachment

FDP Sponsor Attachment

 

To add a new form type:

Navigate to Maintenance > Subawards > Subaward Forms > create new

 

Enter a Description in the Document Overview panel

Enter the following information:

Field

Entry type

Explanation

*Form ID

<AnyChar>

Required to add, blank default, 30 max chars, user can enter a unique identifier

*Description

<AnyChar>

Required to add, blank default, 50 max chars, user may enter text description of the boilerplate template. This description will appear as choices when the user generates/prints the boilerplate agreement/modification.

Template

<Filename.xsl>

Required to add, browse to locate and return XML template. Search defaults to .xsl extension.

The system utilizes XML templates aka style sheets, available from the FDP website (http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/fdp/PGA_063626).

 

Template Type

<AnyChar>

User may select from dropdown of descriptions from the Template Type table.

      FDP Sponsor Template

      FDP Template

      FDP Template Attachment

      Subaward Attachment

 

Subaward Status

The subaward Status options are presented to the user in the Subaward module > Subaward tab > Subaward panel.

Maintenance > Subawards > Subaward Status: provided out-of-the-box for KC are:

Subaward Status Code

Description

1

Active

3

Archive

2

Inactive

4

Void

5

Closed

 

Subaward Template Type

Subaward template types are utilized with the Subaward Forms and as a means to group the items and separate the printing categories. There is no ability to create locally defined Subaward Template Types; these types are specific for the FDP subaward generation tool.

 

Maintenance > Subawards > Subaward Status: provided out-of-the-box for KC are:

Code

Description

Behavior

1

Subaward Attachment

Default value.

This category can be maintained with the standard referenced attachments included with FDP agreements (ex. Final SOW, Final Budget), or any forms/documents.

The Subaward Print Attachment Type Inclusion parameter defines which subcontract attachment types will be available for inclusion.

Forms are available via ‘Print’ functionality for individual printing and for local form printing

2

FDP Sponsor Attachment

This category is maintained for the sponsor specific attachments. These attachments display the customized terms and conditions appropriate to each sponsor.

Forms are available via ‘Print’ functionality for individual printing and for local form printing.

3

FDP Template Attachment

This category is maintained for the FDP defined attachments referenced by the agreement (Attachments 3A, 3B, 3B-2, 4, and 5). Forms are available via ‘Print’ functionality for individual printing and for local form printing.

4

FDP Template

This category is maintained for the FDP Agreement and Modification templates.

Available via ‘Print’ functionality, users must select one or the other in order to print/generate an FDP Agreement or Modification.

 

 

 

Subaward Cost Type

The Cost Type is accessed by the user in the Subaward > Subaward panel > cost type field.  The list provided out of the box in KC is listed below. Creating new types requires adding a code number and a description.

Maintenance > Subawards > Subaward Cost Type.

Code

Description

1

Cost Reimbursement

2

Firm Fixed Price

3

Time and Materials

4

Labor Hours

5

Cost Plus Fixed Fee

6

Billing Agreement

 

Subaward Copyrights Type

The Subaward Copyrights Type is available to the user in the Subawards document > Template Information tab > Template panel > Copyrights / Data Rights field. The out of the box types are specific for the FDP subaward generation tool and not additional types can be added locally.

 

Maintenance > Subawards > Subaward Copyrights Type: out of the box types.

Code

Description

1

Subrecipient Grants

2

Subrecipient Shall Grant

 

Subaward Report Type

The Report types appear to the user in the Subaward document > Template Information > Reports panel and are required for the FDP Agreement/Modification generation tool as a list of reports in Attachment 4 (Reporting Requirements). The out of the box types are specific for the FDP subaward generation tool and not additional types can be added locally.

 

Maintenance > Subawards > Subaward Report Type: out of the box types.

Code

Description

1

Final Technical Report

2

Final Patent Report

3

Final Property Report

 

Subaward Attachments Type

The Attachment types appear to the user in the Subaward document > Template Information > Attachments panel and are required for the FDP Agreement/Modification generation. The out of the box types are specific for the FDP subaward generation tool and not additional types can be added locally.

 

Refer to Subaward Print Attachment Type Inclusion parameter for description of related functionality.

Maintenance > Subawards > Subaward Report Type: out of the box types.

Code

Description

1

Scope of Work

2

Budget

3

Transmittal Letter

4

Subaward

5

Attachment 4A

6

Attachment 5

7

Attachment 6

 

Shared Maintenance Documents

Contact Type

Contact Types are utilized in both Award and Subaward modules for Internal and External persons. These Contact Types are presented in the drop-down selection lists on the Contacts tab in both modules. Many types are provided out-of-the-box, but you may wish to add or alter types to suit your local business practices.

Certain types are utilized in the new FDP Subaward Agreement Template Attachments 3A and 3B. If the types are not already defined, they should be added.

 

      For 3A: Prime Administrative Contact, Prime Authorized Official, Prime Financial Contact.

      For 3B: Subcontract Administrative Contact, Subcontract Authorized Official, Subcontract Reporting Contact. (The Subcontract PI for this form is mapped to the Site Investigator field on the Subaward tab > Subaward panel.)

 

Also required, several of these codes must be maintained in the Parameters for printing in the FDP Templates. (See the Parameter maintenance section for specifics.)


Maintenance > Shared > Contact Type (highlighted types have been maintained to contact usage for subawards)

Contact Type Code

Description

 

1

Technical/Scientific Officer--1

 

2

Awarding Office Contact--1

 

3

Payment/Fiscal Reporting Contact

 

4

Intellectual Property Contact

 

5

Property Office Contact-1

 

6

Subcontracting Reporting Contact

 

7

Final Report Submission Address

 

8

Other

 

9

Procurement Reporting Contact-1

 

10

Close-out Contact

 

11

Report Submission Address--1

 

12

Report Submission Address-2

 

13

Administrative Contact--1

 

14

Awarding Office Contact--2

 

15

Technical/Scientific Officer--2

 

16

Property Office Contact-2

 

17

Procurement Reporting Contact-2

 

18

Procurement Reporting Contact-3

 

19

Procurement Reporting Contact-4

 

20

Procurement Reporting Contact-5

 

21

Property Office Contact-3

 

22

Administrative Contact--2

 

23

Technical/Scientific Officer--3

 

24

Report Submission Address-3

 

-1

 

 

30

Internal Contact

 

31

Subaward Administrative Contact 1

Maps in the FDP Sub Administrative Contact Code parameter to use Address Book data to populate FDP Attachment 3B (Subrecipient Contacts) Administrative Contact section.

32

Subaward Financial Contact 1

Maps in the FDP Sub Financial Contact Code parameter to use Address Book data to populate FDP Attachment 3B (Subrecipient Contacts) Financial Contact section.

33

Subaward Authorized Official

Maps in the FDP Sub Authorized Official Code parameter to use Address Book data to populate FDP Attachment 3B (Subrecipient Contacts) Authorized Official section.

34

Prime Administrative Contact

Maps in the FDP Prime Administrative Contact Code parameter to use Address Book data to populate FDP Attachment 3A (Prime Recipient Contacts) Administrative Contact section.

35

Prime Financial Contact

Maps in the FDP Prime Financial Contact Code parameter to use Address Book data to populate FDP Attachment 3A (Prime Recipient Contacts) Financial Contact section.

36

Prime Authorized Official

Maps in the FDP Prime Authorized Official Code parameter to use Address Book data to populate FDP Attachment 3A (Prime Recipient Contacts) Authorized Official section.

37

Authorizing Official

 

38

Financial Contact

 

 

Contact Usage

The Contact Usage table was added in 5.2.1to filter the list of contact types displayed to be specific to each module. When the Contact Usage table is selected, a maintenance window appears. Select either Award or Subcontracts and then use the Add button to select the types that should appear in that module.

 

To utilize the FDP Subaward Agreement/Modification attachments, the following types have been maintained for Subaward.

Maintenance > Shared > Contact Usage > Module > Subcontracts

Code

Description

3

Payment/Fiscal Reporting Contact

6

Subaward Reporting Contact

13

Administrative Contact 1

30

Internal Contact

31

Subrecipient Administrative Contact 1

32

Subrecipient Financial Contact 1

33

Subrecipient Authorized Official

34

Prime Administrative Contact

35

Prime Financial Contact

36

Prime Authorized Official

37

Authorizing Official

38

Financial Contact

 

Parameter Maintenance

The parameters were set as shown below in the KC development and test instances. Refer to your local environment maintenance tables to confirm the codes and values are appropriate to your practices.

 

System Admin > Configuration > Parameter > Namespace Code: KC-SUBAWARD > Parameter Type Code: Config

Parameter Name

Parameter Description

Parameter Value

FDP_Prime_Administrative_Contact_
Code

FDP Prime Administrative Contact Code

34

FDP_Prime_Authorized_Official_Code

FDP Prime Authorized Official Code

36

FDP_Prime_Financial_Contact_Code

FDP Prime Financial Contact Code

35

FDP_Sub_Administrative_Contact_Code

FDP Sub Administrative Contact Code

31

FDP_Sub_Authorized_Official_Code

FDP Sub Authorized Official Code

33

FDP_Sub_Financial_Contact_Code

FDP Sub Financial Contact Code

32

Subaward_Follow_Up

Determines the length of time that default follow up date is set to on the subaward closeout panel.  Valid setting is a number followed by a D or a W.  6W means six weeks, 10D means 10 days.

6W

Subaward_FDP_Attachment_3B_Form_ID

Subaward FDP Attachment 3B Form ID

FDP_ATT_3B

Subaward_FDP_Attachment_4_Form_ID

Subaward FDP Attachment 4 Form ID

FDP_ATT_4

Subaward_FDP_Attachment_5_Form_ID

Subaward FDP Attachment 5 Form ID

0

Subaward_Print_Attachment_Type_
Inclusion

Subaward Print Attachment Type Inclusion

1,2,3,5,6,7

 

Roles and Responsibilities

      The Modify Subaward role can for create, modify, and view Subaward documents. The subaward document identifies the Organization Name, Site Investigator, Start &End dates, the Amount for a Subaward, and other pertinent details. The selection of an Award document as the Funding Source from within the Subaward record creates the link between the Subaward and Award documents 

      The Subaward Requisitioner Review Approver is responsible for reviewing, commenting on, disapproving, and/or approving Subawards

      The Requisitioner is a derived role – this is the KC Person who initiated the request to initiate the subaward; their person record is maintained in the subaward document creating the “derived” role.

      The View Subaward role supports viewing the Subaward documents.

Document Layout

The Subaward document is comprised of a header area, eight tabbed pages (Subaward, Funding Source, Amount Info, Amount Released, Contacts, Closeouts, Subaward Actions, and Custom Data) – each of which contain expandable, tabbed sections/subsections, and an action button area.

 

Figure 1511 Subaward Document - E-Doc Components

Table 617 Subaward - Major Components Overview

Major Document Component

Summarized Description

Header area

Document identification information at the top, right of the document containing both common and document-specific fields.

Tabbed Pages

Pages that make up the document which are accessible by clicking the folder tab for each.  These are groupings of functionally related information for the purpose of display and collection and are generally designed to be completed in left-to-right order.

Panel Sections

Multiple tabbed panels within each page contain data entry/selection/display fields that can expand and collapse via hide/show buttons.  Some sections contain subsections – the labels for which are highlighted in a darker shade of grey.

Action Buttons

Buttons that appear at the bottom, center of the document (regardless of page), some of which are common to all e-docs, and some of which are unique to this particular document.

 

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For more information about e-doc component features that are common to all e-docs, see”E-Doc Topology” Overview > E-Doc Fundamentals.

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For more information about e-doc component features that are unique to the Subaward e-doc, see Subaward, then select the appropriate corresponding subtopics for each page, section, or subsection below.

Header

After populating required information and saving a Subaward document, its document header displays unique fields based upon the entries/selections you made.  These provide a quick reference summary of key identifying information about each particular Subaward.

 

Figure 1512  Subaward Document > Document Header – Unique Fields After Save Example

Pages

The Subaward document is comprised of five (5) tab pages.  A minimum number of fields required for saving the document appear on the first (left) page, with some additional requirements on some or all of the remaining pages.

 

 

Figure 1513  Subaward Document - Pages Layout

Introduction

 

You complete the Subaward e-doc when you want to track a subcontract project by a uniquely identified record, where specific information can be referenced, including the funding award, the site investigator, the organization, the amount obligated to the subaward, the amounts invoiced against that subaward, and the funds remaining available.

Scope

This procedure covers:

      Creating a new Subaward document

      Adding an Invoice to a Subaward document

      Updating an existing Subaward document

 

Before You Begin

Before you begin this procedure, you will first need the following:

      Access:  permissions associated with an Modify Subaward  role

      Pre-existing Conditions: There must be an existing award to designate as the funding source in the subaward.

      Prerequisite Tasks

The following tasks must be completed prior to initiating this activity:

      Create an Award e-doc

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Prior Procedure Reference:  This procedure continues from “Award”.

 

Navigation Path

Getting started – this quick system reference depicts how to access the start screen for this procedure.  The process task steps in the ordered list below assume you will be creating a new Subaward document.

Create New:

 >  >

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For more information on creating a new document, see “Initiating a Document” in Overview > Common E-Doc Procedures.

Access Existing:

>  >

Or…

doc search.jpg >> enter/select criteria >search.jpg>

or…

action list.jpg > >

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For more information on accessing an existing document using the global doc search button, see “Searching for a Document” in Overview > Common E-Doc Procedures.

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For more information on accessing an existing document using the global action list button, see “Using the Action List” in Overview > Common E-Doc Procedures.

 

Subtopics:

To initiate a Subaward document:

To complete the Financial page of a Subaward document:

To Add an Invoice to the Subaward document:

Subaward

Subaward

Funding Source

Contacts

Closeout

Financial

History of Changes

Invoices

Maintain Invoice entries:

Custom Data

Template Information

Template

Reports

Attachments

Page level Action Buttons

Subaward Actions

Data Validation

Print

Ad Hoc Recipients

Route Log

Finalizing the Subaward Document

Medusa

Update an Existing Subaward Documents