What are Indirect (IDC or F&A) Costs? Federal Regulations define IDC as "Indirect costs are those that have been incurred for common or joint objectives and cannot be readily identified with a ...

In today’s dynamic political landscape where federal funding, institutional accountability and research integrity face increasing scrutiny, understanding the full spectrum of the policies and costs ...

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 ...

The U.S. National Institutes of Health is lowering the maximum “indirect cost rate” that research institutions can charge the government, the agency said late Friday – a move that scientists said ...

Since 1947, the federal government has provided research institutions with funding for administrative and facilities costs such as rent, heating, and electricity in addition to direct costs for ...

Activities funded by external sponsors or separately budgeted internal programs that are formally organized to produce research outcomes. These are clearly structured and often require detailed budget ...

Indirect costs (Facilities and Administrative (F&A) costs) are charged to externally sponsored awards, unless specifically prohibited by the funding agency. A percentage of indirect (F&A) costs ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) published guidance late on Feb. 7, 2025, setting the indirect cost rate for NIH grants at 15 percent, replacing the negotiated indirect cost rates at many ...

Indirect costs, also known as facilities and administrative (F&A) costs or overhead, are expenses incurred by an organization in support of its overall operations that cannot be easily attributed to a ...

“It is not possible to perform the research funded by direct costs without the infrastructure supported by indirect costs,” said Eric W. Kaler, PhD. On February 10, a group of 22 state attorneys ...

People including researchers from Chicago-area universities gather on the University of Illinois Chicago campus to voice concerns about the potential loss of federal funding for medical research on ...