News & Announcements

The Society of Research Administrators (SRA) International’s ‘Future of the Field’ recognition program aims to shine light on up-and-comers innovating and influencing the Research Administration profession. Danell Thompson, Assistant Director Contracts, Melissa Dunivant, Senior Proposal Analyst, and Tim Gehret, Senior Contracts Officer, were selected by a committee of Research Administrator...

A working group comprised of members from the Office of Contracts and Grants (OCG), Research Financial Services (RFS), and the College of Engineering have updated the Foreign Currency procedures. Due to inconsistent application of the Foreign Currency Risk Reserve, there was a need to evaluate the procedure and make changes...

The Department of Energy (DOE) recently issued Financial Assistance Letter (FAL) 2022-02 , an interim financial and organizational conflicts interest policy for grant awardees, and Financial Assistance Letter (FAL) 2022-04 , current and pending support disclosure requirements. The new policy and requirements establish standards for a reasonable expectation that the...

The Office of Contracts and Grants Directory has been upgraded to utilize Tableau. The user experience is very similar to the original directory. There are still landing pages for the colleges and links on that page to the respective unit. When clicking on a unit link, it opens the directory...

The Office of Contracts and Grants (OCG) has recently added a partially-executed Non-disclosure Agreement (NDA) Agreement that may be used for unilateral disclosure of confidential information by an external entity to CU Boulder personnel. This agreement must be accepted as written, which allows for immediate acceptance. Learn more about the...

Your OCG Proposal Analyst is your partner throughout the proposal process, including pre-proposal activities such as Letters of Intent, white papers, Step 1 proposals, etc. OCG has recently experienced issues meeting submission deadlines with PIs not contacting OCG during the pre-proposal process and systems requiring an Authorized Organizational Representative (AOR,...

As communicated to campus on January 18, 2022 in an Administration eMemo: Spring 2022 COVID-19 Compliance Reminders and posted on the HR COVID-19 Guidance webpage , as a CU employee, you are required to follow the guidelines of any state, federal, contractor or business (host site) where an employee fulfills...

OCG and Venture Partners have been working together to solidify the process between our two units for Allocation of Rights agreements. Signature authority for these types of agreements resides with Venture Partners, and as such effective January 13, 2022, Venture Partners has responsibility for drafting, negotiating and signing Allocation of...

The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) and the Office of Contracts and Grants (OCG) would like to make you aware of changes with budgeting mandatory graduate student fees on new sponsored project proposal budgets. As announced in CU Boulder Today on November 5, 2021, CU Boulder will begin remitting mandatory...

NASA FINESST Proposals for Graduate Student Fellowships are due before 5 p.m. on February 11, 2022. Guidance of the submission process can be found on OCG’s webpage for Fellowships and Student Research Grants . The PI is responsible for ensuring the student has prepared the appropriate documentation and must release...