Commitment Form to Establish a Subaward Agreement
University of St. Thomas - Grants and Research Office
Date:
Prime Sponsor:
UST Principal Investigator:
Subrecipient Institution:
Subrecipient Institution Principal Investigator:
Project Title:
Dollar Amount-Subcontract:
Proposed Project Period:
Certifications (to be filled out by subrecipient institution):
1. Facilities & Administration Rates included in this proposal have been calculated based on:
Our Federally-negotiated F&A Rates for this type of work, or a reduced F&A rate that we hereby agree to accept.
Other rates (please specify the basis on which the rate has been calculated in "notes section" below.
Not applicable (no indirect cost request for the subrecipient).
Are consistent with or lower than our federally-negotiated rate agreement.
2. Fringe Benefit Rates included in this proposal:
Are based on other rates (please specify the basis on which the rate has been calculated in "notes section" below).
Yes
3. Human Subjects:
No Exempt
Copies of the IRB approval and approved "Informed Consent" form are attached.
FWA#
If "Yes,"
Copies of IRB approval and "Informed Consent" will be forwarded to the UST Grants and Research Office
before research begins.
3a. Human Research Participants Protection Training
# of applicable personnel:
Certification of education on the protection of human research participants for all students hired to work on a NSF
grant is attached.
Certification will be provided before research begins.
4. Animal Subjects:
Yes No Exempt
IACUC Assurance #
If "Yes,"
Copy of the IACUC approval is attached.
Copy of IACUC will be forwarded to the UST Grants and Research Office before research begins.
PRF File #
Prime Institution: University of St. Thomas
Not applicable (not an NSF grant).
Certifications (continued):
5. Biosafety Committee
Yes No
If "Yes,"
A copy of the Biosafety Committee approval form is attached.
A copy of the Biosafety Committee approval will be forwarded to the Grants and Research Office before research
begins.
6. Conflict of Interest
(applicable PHS, NIH, NSF, DDHS or any other program requiring federal financial disclosure)
Subrecipient Organization/Institution hereby certifies that it has an active and enforced conflict of interest policy
that is consistent with the provision of 42 CFR Part 50, Subpart F "Responsibility of Applicants for Promoting Objectivity
in Research." Subrecipient also certifies that, to the best of Institution's knowledge, 1) all financial disclosures have been
made related to the activities that may be funded by or through a resulting agreement, and required by its conflict of
interest policy; and 2) all identified conflicts of interest have or will have been satisfactorily managed, reduced or
eliminated in accordance with subrecipient's conflict of interest policy prior to the expenditures of any funds under
resultant agreement.
Not applicable because project is not being funded by PHS, NIH, NSF or DHHS
7. Cost Sharing/Matching:
Yes No
In-Kind:
Yes No
Cost sharing, Matching and/or In-Kind amounts and justification should be included in the subrecipient's budget.
8. Certification Regarding Debarment & Suspension
Yes No
Subrecipient certifies that neither it nor the principals are presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, declared
ineligible or voluntarily excluded from participation in any Federal department or Agency. Subawards to any entity or
individual included in the federal excluded Parties are prohibited.
The appropriate programmatic and administrative personnel involved in this application are prepared to establish and
administer the necessary inter-institutional agreement(s) consistent with prime sponsor policies.
Subrecipient Institutional Official
Office:
Name:
Title:
Date:
Please return this form to the University of St. Thomas Grants and Research Office:
Dr. David Steele, Director
AQU 319
2115 Summit Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55105
dfsteele@stthomas.edu
Notes (use to explain use of other F&A rate, Fringe Benefit rate or pertinent information necessary to this agreement you wish to share:
Not Needed
Cash: