The following Indirect Cost (F&A) Rate Decision Guide is provided as information to campus. The Office of Contracts and Grants (OCG) will make the final determination on which rate applies to a ...

Indirect Costs, also known as Facilities and Administrative Costs (F&A) or overhead, are institutional costs that are not specifically allocable to individual sponsored projects but are real costs ...

Indirect costs cannot be attributed to a particular project. Examples include utilities, facilities maintenance, library support and general departmental and university administration. These costs are ...

they must be recovered from funding agencies through the application of the federally approved indirect (F&A) cost rates. All proposals for external funding must include a budget request for indirect ...

Letters of support obtained from external contributors in the support of pending proposals should ... must include indirect costs either at the third-party organization's approved federally negotiated ...

The UMass Lowell (UML) Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) is responsible for reviewing all external proposal applications for compliance ... accordance with the sponsor guidelines. Sponsor indirect ...