Principal Investigators (PIs) work with their Local Research Administrators (LRAs) to initiate all award actions and transactions.

This guidance provides information to the schools and centers to develop internal guidelines for allocating such ancillary costs to non-federal awards.

Tufts University manages its cost sharing obligations in compliance with the Uniform Guidance regulations 2 CFR § 200.306 Cost Sharing or Matching and in accordance with the internal policy Cost

A cost transfer, also known as an expense transfer, is an after-the-fact reallocation of the cost associated with a transaction from one account to another account(s) and may involve a sponsored award

A data/specimen transfer agreement allows a researcher to share data and/or specimens with a collaborator (a person or entity not associated with the study or the researcher’s institution).

Budget revision or rebudgeting is a reallocation of funds from one spending category to another category.