Overview
This guide covers pre-award support by Contracts and Grants Accounting.
At UCSF, Principal Investigators and department research administrators work with the Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) on pre-award activities from proposal development and submission through award negotiation and acceptance. OSR negotiates award terms on behalf of UCSF and the Regents of the University of California.
Once an award has been accepted, Principal Investigators and department research administrators work both with Contracts and Grants Accounting (CGA) to conduct all financial post-award activities, and with OSR for non-financial (reporting, contract changes, no cost extensions, etc.) post-award activities.
The "hand-off" of an executed award occurs when OSR staff enter the award information into the Centralized Agreement Contact Tracking and Approval System (CACTAS) and send the award to CGA via CACTAS for set-up.
Advances
At the department's request, CGA will establish an advance in the Research Administration System (RAS) for eligible awards. Please review procedures for award advances, including automatic award advances, for more information.