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Columns::August 19, 2002

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UGA joins partnership to increase productivity

By Jamie Palmer
rcomm@ovpr.uga.edu

UGA has joined the Federal Demonstration Partnership, now in its fourth phase. Created in 1986, the FDP increases federally sponsored research productivity by streamlining administrative processes and reducing the managerial burdens that seem to go hand in hand with the receipt of federal funds.
“FDP is trying to reconcile the interests of the federal government, the universities and the research labs they work with,” says Cindy Ogletree, assistant director for the Office of Sponsored Programs and UGA’s administrative representative to FDP. “It’s a re-engineering process--we are all trying to figure out a better way to do business.”
Many research programs have already benefitted from FDP actions with the application of a 90-day pre-spending authority, institutionally approved no-cost extensions up to one additional year, and automatic carryover of unobligated funds from one budget period to the next.
Federal agencies and institutions that conduct federal research programs get together to identify snags within sponsored programs administration and, in turn, create solutions. This partnership results in better management and standardization of processes that involve the federal government and university research. FDP refines procedures that work and discards those that are not effective. Agencies collaborate with one another to find the single method that is most efficient. As a member of FDP, UGA will have input in the decision-making process that will affect many aspects of research and its procedures here, as well as at other institutions that receive federal research grants.

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