The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a grants policy statement regarding a change in indirect cost rates due to a recent executive order. The NIH is implementing a standardized 15% ...

CU Boulder’s Federally-Negotiated Indirect Cost (F&A) Rate Agreement includes four types of activities. The activity types of organized research, instruction, and other sponsored activities are ...

Labor costs that do not directly contribute to the production of goods or performance of services are known as indirect labor costs. Paying workers whose duties assist others in producing goods and ...

Some examples* of indirect (F&A) costs include: CU Boulder's indirect cost rate is negotiated with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). We must use our federally-negotiated rate on ...

On March 5, 2025, a US district court in Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction blocking the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...

President Trump's nominee to lead the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya, demurred on his view on Trump’s move to slashi NIH indirect cost ...

Judge Angel Kelley of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on March 12, 2025, issued a nationwide preliminary injunction ...

The indirect cost rate is intended to cover overhead and the ... dramatic cuts to the reimbursement formula cannot help but force corresponding cuts to research. It is that simple," the letter ...

While direct research costs include easily quantifiable line items such as researcher salaries, indirect cost rates support harder-to-quantify costs that may contribute to multiple different research ...